Poetry Tasting

[BooMerengue]

That's an old martini trick that an army captain showed me many years ago.
I still keep my gin/vodka in the freezer to this day. (However you can't keep vermouth there because it will freeze.)

I keep my vodka and my Crown Royal in the freezer... so much better straight when it's frozen...

 

[bluerains]

the title

usually grabs my attention...then the verse..shorter the better..I love a work that draws you into the painting with small strokes...

 

[RhymeFairy]

Bumpp~

 

[champagne1982]

How do YOU read/interpret/judge a poem?

Is it like a wine tasting? Smell it. Taste a tiny sip. Swirl it around in your mouth, savoring the undertones. Spit or swallow?

Or, do you immediately see technical flaws -- rhyme, meter.

Is this related, in any way, to whether you're a "thinking" or a "feeling" personality -- or is it more tied to education/training? I mean, do you FEEL a poem first -- or THINK it?

Such questions Humor me ...

Your fucked imho
sucked harder then i did
up on you're grammer police
soapbox wile you looked down
from you're hi pedastle
except when you got
to shit than you cum
out of you're castle
and sea how deep
your in it --

If I were to read this in the New Poems, I'd automatically assume the poet was playing with me, especially if I were familiar with other pieces they'd shown me having correct usage and proper spelling. With that in mind; if I were to read another poem using the same malapropisms and misspellings, I'd begin to wonder if the poet were possessed of even a smidgen of self-respect, since it would be obvious they weren't aware of the errors. Spelling and grammar assisting tools are widely available, as is friendly and helpful advise.

With that said, I cannot read past the errors I've mentioned above, too many of them and I can't enjoy the poem. If I'm guilty of making them, I apologize to my readers and I will endeavour to correct what I can.

After I have decided I can read a poem without wincing over poor language skills, then, I am able to enjoy how it makes me feel and at the last, I'll determine whether it fits inside the formula the poet has decided to place the words in. Yes, free verse is a form poem, just with fewer constraints.

I do feel poetry, but sometimes I can't turn off my internal editor. I have discovered, the painful way, that I just shouldn't mention the mistakes I find anymore and rate the poem, appropriately as I see it, without explanation for the low vote.

 

[BooMerengue]

Sweet nectar,
dripping
Honey flowing thru.
Softly smooth,
sweetness
upon my lips.
My tongue,
slowly sneaks out

Just one
lil taste. Lightly licks,
oozing ... cream so light,
sinfully sensual.

Upon
my tongue now,
silky
and smooth.
Bursting,
with delight
Swirling ... it around
Tasting,
juicy jam.
Sweet ... as sin

Tongue begs
for more
Greedily tasting,
long licks.
Slamming ... my senses.
Overtaking,
my wet mouth.
Consuming
all I can.

Shooting,
me full. Seedy
and sweet
Sucking ... so slow.

Dripping
Oozing
Wetness galore.
Upon my lips,
tasting more~

Rhyme Fairy? Thats a nice enough poem, but why did you place it here? It's completely off topic... I thought we had sort of agreed to quit the thread hijacking. Have we not?

 

[SeattleRain]

How do YOU read/interpret/judge a poem?

Is it like a wine tasting? Smell it. Taste a tiny sip. Swirl it around in your mouth, savoring the undertones. Spit or swallow?

Or, do you immediately see technical flaws -- rhyme, meter.

Is this related, in any way, to whether you're a "thinking" or a "feeling" personality -- or is it more tied to education/training? I mean, do you FEEL a poem first -- or THINK it?

Such questions Humor me ...

I place poetry in a blender with aloe vera, lavendar and chamomile... then I bathe in the infusion....

 

[SeattleRain]

Rhyme Fairy? Thats a nice enough poem, but why did you place it here? It's completely off topic... I thought we had sort of agreed to quit the thread hijacking. Have we not?

oh damn, okay


I do get annoyed by blatant errors that a simple spell checker would pick up on.

I hate sex poetry that reads like a manual. We all know how to fuck around here I am sure, and do not need a straight forward in and out diagram.

If a poem requires 0% thought to get what the poet was trying to say, then blah.

If I have already read 100 poems that say the exact same thing the exact same way, ick.

Give me something new. It is like having sex with the same man for 15 years, you gotta mix it up or it is lights out roll over ho hum go read some manuals and come back to me with something I haven't thought of yet.

I Want to be punched in the gut, I want to think about something in a new way, I want to be shown something I have never seen.

and then I will either eat it, bathe in it or smoke it. however I can incorporate it into who I am

 

[RhymeFairy]

I swear ... I am not hijacking~

I just wanna,

Taste Poetry ~



Taste it through and through.
Drift over me wave after wave.
Sensually stoking my appetite
for more.

More of this magnificence.
Majestic beauty in motion.
Slow motion hypnotizing me,
with free flowing thoughts

Curving into my brain, body.
Twining around me, just suckling
all over every morphis.

Morphemically changing,
channeling into my essence.
Ecliptic espionage, taking over
demanding my all. Taking
me in ...