Angeline
Poet Chick
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- Mar 11, 2002
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I'm honored that two poets whose writing I admire like my poem. I found this challenge difficult: hard to find a way in to write about it. I didn't think I was going to be able to do it. And then I found inspiration in a book I was reading. You never know.
A few thoughts on the poems.
1 is, in turns, funny and scary. It draws you in and then ends on a pretty sobering note. Great blitz and I especially like the wordplays (e.g., "boys/buoys" "great/grate"). And the joining of fertility with mollusks (and nano clams, etc.) is just darkly hilarious.
2 GP, if you see this, what is your poem besides an acrostic? Is that a form poem? Rosamunda really got around! Also, first challenge showing of "fecund."
3 Second "fecund."
4 I like how this poem stays with the topic and expands it at the end. Also some lovely images like this one:
To arise in union
with the buzzing of bumble bees
and fluttering of humming birds
5 And then we get a poem that is short and looks at the topic on a small scale, but captures it with that image of a flower pushing through soil.
6 Second poem to address climate change. Wonderful word play as always from Magnetron, but don't let his light touch fool you: it's a pretty serious poem imo and seriously good writing.
7 And he says he'll never be a poet.
Felicity gives birth to the universe, a cosmic take on the topic. The poem has great flow from line to line and some of the phrasing takes my breath away, like this: falling immeasurable into sanguine depths,
there in the last days of winter
in earth preparing for spring
That gets you right in the gut!
8 This poem is sort of the other side to Rosamunda's story in poem 2, so a similar approach to the topic. But it's only 17 syllables and there's a whole story in it. That, to me, is the mark of a good American Sentence.
9 is one of my favorites and it's a fine villanelle as well. This is the fear of fertility approach. It's hilarious (I love when poems make me laugh) and it's strong writing. The refrain lines are great.
10 Similar in approach to poem 5 but the tone is different, shading between awe and horror.
11 I love that AH wrote free verse for this challenge. I wonder how many of us he threw off track with that twist? This is an erotic, romantic approach to the topic but it also (like poem 10) conveys awe and something of the miraculous.
12 Another of my favorites (GP, guess I just love the way you write). Three words: topic summarized. Love it.
That's it for today! I'll be back for more. It's really great to read such a spectrum of responses to the title.
...thanks a lot heh
