Poetry Across the Web
July 12, 2007 by John Hewitt
There are people all over the web writing new poems every day. Anyone who thinks that poetry is dead needs to take a look around. Poetry is alive and well, it just doesn’t pay. Here are some new poems on the web. Some are good, some are bad and some are ugly. My opinion doesn’t matter though, so I’ll leave it out, except to point out my favorite lines from each poem.
Stupid Love Poem
I wrote you a love poem
Because you told me to
The Myth of Memory
Maybe that explains the lack of eyelids,
always awake, always in sudden shock.
The First Thing I Make for Dinner
dried mint crushed
with a little Drambuie
to give it a kick
Poem for Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci, I love your big head
Band Camp, Day Five
Two hours means gripped palms, sweating with desire
Quackery
Quackery Cliffston clackering quackenstien
You doctory phonery you
A Poem To Help Let Go
A card given to me covered in a smell I love n know
Poem about Project Management Systems
It once was “Jango”
But that implies true greatness-
More like “Jar-Jar Binks”
My Bicycle: A Love Poem
When I ride too far it hurts my hiney
Color Me Blind…
Filling pockets with shamrocks and smoking,
cinnamon cigars to leave saffron aftertastes
Making Jack O’Lanterns
Cut all ’round the stem, just so,
Scrape out the inside below
Messenger
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
Related links
- Poetry Across The Web (Week Two) (1.000)
- This Week's Poetry Across the Web (1.000)
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- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Repetition (1.000)
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Sorry to disagree, but poetry IS dead. The fact that it doesn’t pay is evidence of this. Sure, lots of people write it, but no one reads it. If they did, the people who wrote it could make money. The problem is the rules have been destroyed so there is no objective standards any more. You’re not allowed to distinguish good poetry from bad poetry.
Hi Dan,
I would say that the exact opposite is true. Writing poetry has never been particularly rewarding financially. The fact that so many people continue to do it when they know there is no money in it for them is proof that poetry itself is thriving.