New Poetry Recommendations

[Tzara]

Hello again. I see more poems are up and that means you lucky people get a special PM edition of Tzara Reads the New Poems!.

Wow. Silence.

The APPLAUSE light is on, people. Step it up.

Well, anyway, eight more poems have posted since this morning. I've already said as much as I want to say about sjmhmttep's song lyrics, so let's have a looksee at what's come in after, hmmm?

• Poems do not have to be lengthy to say something complex. CharleyH's cinquain, Deathbed is both succinct (a result of her chosen form) and subtly emotional. It reads like a very well-written epitaph, which I mean as a compliment. Recommended.

• New Lit poet MaggieMae9 posts her first two poems, Never Again and Reminiscence. Both are at least somewhat BDSM-themed, but the former speaks primarily to the Narrator's former sexual experience, which gives that poem a bit more feeling and interest. To me, of course. Y'all might like the second better.

• Dru_Druthers' poem, The Kiss is a Lit-standard erotic poem written as a kind of accentual meter sonnet. The line On a scale of one to ten this is an eleven unfortunately made me think of this.

• Miniature Fireworks Haiku Set is by seannelson, a poet I do not comment on. You may want to, though.

• New Lit poet Deanarys posts her first offering, Complete, which is listed as erotic.

• My Love by demure101 is a sweet little poem written in an interesting form (rhymed aba cbc dbd...) that resembles terza rima but is quite different. Worth a read.

• Another new poet, QueenOfJewelz enjoys a shower in Water.

OK. Now enjoy your weekend, people.

Peace. Out.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Only one offering posted for today which is a very odd ditty if you want to check it out.

Not my thing, but it does gargle interestingly at the beginning.

 

[CharleyH]

Sunday, July 7

12 poems up today, so I'll get right down to it.

Helen by demure101 has a nice structure and a bit of rhyme to it and it's worth a read. Demure 101 also has another submission called Just So, but I feel that "Helen" is the superior poem.

In the Darkness by Zrnko_Pisku. It's one of two erotic poems for a Sunday and deserves a nod.

I really enjoyed Lobster by greenmountaineer. I actually liked this one the most, today. It's the only one that really lingers after reading them all. Very nice.

Enjoy your week, folks.

 

[bronzeage]

Reflections of the Moon by Zrnko_Pisku

I like this piece for the rhythm of the words, although the imagery is stilted. It is written in stair case form, with varying line indentures. This sort of gives direction when reading, but when read aloud, like most form poetry forms, it's not discernible to a listener.

Measure by njoyjade

I concentrate on imagery when I read a poem. I believe form is secondary to meaning. This maybe why fractured metaphors leap at me. Even so, I try every angle to decipher the words. This emo piece was doing fine until "Unknown slithers of me cry out." If it were my poem, I would keep "slithers" and craft the rest of the line to work.

Ode to a Dog by Sweetest_wet

Not really an ode, but a sweet and simple piece from a dog's point of view.

Callous by Desejo

A very good and observant piece. My must read of the day.

Shock by demure101

Maybe I just in a mood today. The word "slither" is used early in this allegory about a snake. A few lines later " Cracks will fall in your armour;" appears. I don't know.

Lost innocence by LexiRoseLexi

Grieving for a friend who is not quite dead. It starts as an indictment for attempted murder, but the inquest will return a verdict of suicide.

Let Us Be One by natiwood

A sweet little address to a lover. There can never be enough poems such as this one.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Only a half-dozen in the box today of which I recommend four.

Demure101’s Undecided and When Winter Comes are both good and both have a strong beat. Demure writes solid, rhyming poetry which holds up well against the Hallmark genre. The latter of the two poems has some lovely imagery -

The day before, wild geese came flying by
To leave the world bereft of colour, grey
As if those geese had torn its heart away.​

I particularly like the way the final verse goes off at a tangent taking the reader in a totally unexpected emotional direction.
Undecided has a well established medieval feel of knights and their ladies except for one modernism –

And I decided that it was no go –​

which I found out of place in an otherwise really interesting piece. To my mind, two nearly perfect pieces.

Hunting Season by MaggieMae99 is a clever erotic poem, she uses the analogy of the hunt to represent sex. It’s not hammered home and she stays away from the, all too frequent, pornographic vocab.

LexiRoseLexi uses an interesting scheme of rhyming in Regrets to express the frustrations of the road too often travelled. Again, an unexpected approach and equally successful.

Well, folks, that’s it for this “reviewer”. I am happy to be able to serve up four very tasty poems.

 

[Tzara]

It's Friday the 13th, friggatriskaidekaphobes, and there are a whopping nineteen new poems for me to read through today.

Wow. That's a lot.

Let's see how lucky or unlucky I am with all that reading to work through:

• The first poem up is Lyrical Depression by cliffgirl08. Kind of a downer read, as you might guess from the title. Written in heptameter, I think, which is interesting. I don't think I've seen that before. Gives the poem a little rhythmic lift from the relentlessly gloomy theme.

• The hyperprolific demure101 (where does this guy find the time to write so many poems?) has two new poems up today. Promise # 2 is a Shakespearean sonnet. I found this one a little hard to follow, perhaps because I found some of the syntax and enjambment awkward or perhaps because I hadn't had my morning tea when I read it. I thought FAQs... more interesting. It's a short, rather wry piece about perspective. Anyway, demure101's poems are always worth a read, in my opinion.

• New Lit poet IAmThePuppetMaster gives us his (her?) take on a sub's view of a relationship in T's Poem. A little bit sing-song in its rhyme and meter, but actually not bad.

• DawnJ has two poems today: Affaire and My Pleasure, Sir. The former is, as the author puts it, "a poem about my love affair with words." Some nice descriptions that make you think about quite what your lips and tongue are doing when you speak. The latter has a kind of light, country ballad sound to it, in keeping with its subject (assuming the "Master" here means a master servant relationship, not the more typical Lit BDSM connotation). Both poems are worth a look.

• Paris, 1930 by cavu182 is another light piece characterized by what its author calls "foolish rhyme." Airy and funny. Again, worth a read.

• A poem of deeper ambition, fridayam's Muse on Vacation describes a brief getaway by a (apparently depressed) poet's erotic muse. Interestingly written and emotionally ambivalent, I did find it a little difficult to follow at times, perhaps because it is double-spaced. Recommended.

• The interestingly named iam72hrstv has two poems today. Sleep in a Puddle of Love is a rather descriptively lush poem of strained rhyme with some kind of odd images (We loved like a poisoned Queen frantically searching for the antidote.). On the other hand, Love Juice for Dessert is kind of crudely terse: I want to / Squeeze some / Fucking tits. Appropriately, perhaps, the former seems to be written with a female narratorial voice and the latter with a male narratorial voice. Odd combination.

• Angles by njoyjade is a little allegory, almost a riddle, about the sea, swimmers, and one not in the sea. I liked this. Read it and see what you think.

• There are four poems today by Pandoras Desire: Girlish Nectar, Of One Girl, I Dream of Love with You, and Only in Fantasy. All are very brief, pretty standard Lit erotic poems.

• IMspidey offer us a sweet little rhymed poem, Forever Love..., that's about just that.

• New Lit poet topace wants to tell us about My Mind, i.e. about his mind, not mine. His mind is "a dirty place" and "not for a zombie to dine."

• July 14 Limericks by caringcad aren't really limericks--more like he's trying to use the form as a stanza form in a standard Lit "pump my cock in your pussy" erotic poem.

• My Little black book by pinkboots is a list of erotic encounters.

There it is, folks. Some pretty good poems, some not so good (at least to my taste) poems. Not all that unlucky, though.

I'm off for the beach. See you all the middle of next week. Enjoy the weekend.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Saturday July 14, 2012

Demure101 has three for Saturday, of which Morning Blues is my favorite. Otherwise there are some pieces dealing with love and other abstractions and one mommy-boff poem. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

 

[CharleyH]

Sunday, July 15

Ten poems today.

Once again, Ashesh9 delivers his usual humour, not to mention plenty of exclamation points!!

I quite liked First Kiss by oneiria and Placebo by javawarrior. I recommend these two, today.

 

[bronzeage]

Tuesday's review is delayed by Lit maintenance, but fortunately, I saved it in progress before the site was taken down.

We start with three submissions by new Lit poet Mat369man. We have three tender hymns to the joys of anal sex and by tender, I mean merciless.

tight hole by mat369man

pound by mat369man

just do it by mat369man



The Perfect Sexual Intercourse/ The Fuck by gimmeurz
A sparse and terse clinical description of sex.


Another new Lit poet presents three pieces today.

Guilt by arrow909

Him by arrow909
This is my favorite of the three. It is wordy in spots and could be improved with careful editing, but overall a very sweet love poem. This is my recommended read of the day.

Confronted by my Dreams by arrow909

Old MacDonald had a Farm by Cinner

A fun parody of the familiar children's song.

The Arrangement of Ice by EbersMoll

A first submission by EberMoll. This is a descriptive address to a lover. I like the imagery.

the Random God by seannelson

A very good piece by a long time and prolific Lit author.

Evening Alone by hornyhilary

A short masturbatory piece by the aptly named hornyhilary.

Undone by demure101

Demure101 never disappoints. This is the must read poem of the day.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Seventeen works in the haul today of which I gleaned these……….

A nicely done audio poem, Picasso’s Masque by Zrnko_Pisku. As I read, then listened to the poem I could see Picasso’s paintings, his renditions of women, curved but angular, gracefully awkward. It is my pick for today.

Sinamynlee offers four, Worth , Almost , Jigsaw Soul and Lifting the Lid , all a bit angst ridden but worth a read.

Judged only by the title A Foul Fuck had little promise for me but it is actually a clever poem by gimmeurz. Big is not best, depending who you are.

Just because the poems by mick68 (3), CesarBoobage, demure101 (3), DaveDream, exquisitelifetime, Iread2relax, Cal. Y. Pygia and Ashesh9 are not mentioned here does not mean they should be ignored by you, dear reader.

 

[Tzara]

No new poems as of 9 AM PDT. Oftentimes the Friday poems post later in the day, so I'll check again this afternoon.

Everybody have a great weekend. Hope your weather is better than mine (thunderstorms, right now). Bye.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Saturday, July 21

Wow! There are 30 New Poems this Saturday.

DaveDream posts about nudity in a Summer Storm using very simple rhyme and images, but clarity of purpose as he wistfully describes the pleasures of rain on bare skin. Might stop by there and say hi (steal some of his commas). There is a quintain on Nepenthe by blobfish, and a number of very graphic works by rufriter (these kind of turned me off as per discussions in the "Why your erotic poem isn't erotic" thread, but if you are looking for limerick fodder, these might be your thing).

Art is back as MyZenTrail and starts off well enough with images of clouds and mountains but I think his Loving Zenfully could be honed a fair bit. Personally, I like the use of modern language in modern poems. When things start to sound too oldtimey or poemy, I cross my eyes. This is the problem I had with Harry Hill's Hips, Lips, n Fingertips also but both of these writers seem like sweet lovers who are trying to translate that experience into poetry.

Sinuous has a vivid poem in Abandoned. Stop by and see what you think of that one, paying attention to what the images add up to and how the line breaks are used. I'll check back later out of curiosity to see responses and will be rereading, myself. It is interesting to compare the effects of those short lines with PrettyKitty's thematically simpler Good Girl.

AlexW22 tries for more than he succeeds in accomplishing in his poem The art of giving the art of taking, but one cannot fault his ambition as he attempts an erotic Oddessy. Much more simply drawn is RolandHill's Waiting for Clearance which made me curious about what was happening in the narrator's life. I hope to hear more from that poet. Both of these, actually.

In all, my favorites of the day were demure101's who has many great images in her poems but see if you don't agree that there is a strenghth of voice and clarity of tone in her poem Cat o Nine Tails that is not as evident in others of her poems today. Still, lovely to see her posting so many.

Hope you have a marvelous rest of your weekend!

 

[Tzara]

Sunday, July 22

Charley indicated that she wouldn't be around today, so let me poke my opinionated nose into the Sunday edition of new poems.

• Scars by LexiRoseLexi is almost painful to read, because of its subject matter of domestic abuse. There is no way I can offer any judgmental comment on lines like
  A strip between my eyebrows
  Where hair no longer grows
  His fist buried the glasses in my skin
  Before he snapped them in two
  To teach me to watch what I was doing
  And not to look at things I shouldn't​
  other than to say that the poem is powerful and shocking.

• After LRL's poem, it's almost a relief to get back onto the usual Lit ground with arrow909's poem, It is then... This is your usual vaguely BDSM-themed poem where the narrator is dripping [and] panting when thinking of you / Even though lusting and touching / Is such a naughty thing to do. You've all read this kind of thing before and will likely read it again in the future. If the typical Lit poem appeals to you, probably this one will as well.

• If you're on the lookout for unusual imagery, oneiria is perhaps the poet for you. In the Arms of Kali starts
  The warrior
  holds her head
  like a drilled coconut,​
  Not your typical start to a poem, I would say. The poem describes a demonic sexual encounter between the unnamed warrior and the Hindu goddess Kali--here portayed as a kind of evil spirit, though that seems a bit counter to conventional lore (as Ashesh indicates in his comment). Kind of creepy, which I think is the intent. Interesting read.

• Finally, first-time poet dutchpantyraider tells us of his crush for a British field hockey player with his Limerick on Georgie Twigg. That's your lead-in to coverage of the London Olympics.

Interesting day's reading, given the variety. Have a great week, people.

 

[bronzeage]

DaturaBlossoms is a new Lit poet and she gives us three pieces today.

Untitled by DaturaBlossoms
This is my favorite of the three. It is passionate and filled with good imagery, with the exception of a slipped simile in L3. Our lovers are "...Black and blue like the roses that surround..." I have seen black and blue lovers, but never a blue rose.

Sapphic Dreams by DaturaBlossoms
This is another sweet piece addressed to a lover.

Give Me Leatherby DaturaBlossoms

A short, yet demanding quatrain.

The Bar by Tristesse2

An excellent piece by the familiar Trist. I have a prejudice in favor this kind of work. It creates a frame and paints in just enough detail for the reader to see the whole picture. This is today's must read.

Stock Tank Ocean by cavu182

A very good descriptive piece by the prolific Cavu.

Boobs by dieroller

A short ode to breasts.

I LOVE YOU, dedicated to Mark. by kandie

Kandie is a long time Lit author, but this is her first poem submission in quite a while. Mark is a fortunate man.

Tomorrow's Another Day by hornyhilary

Hillary's advice for a NSA relationship is to find a lover whose S's are A'ed to someone else.

Two pieces from Demure, today. Both have a disconsolate tone and show how a poet will always see a reflection of themselves in their surroundings and a good poet will not let the moment pass.

Moon by demure101

In Your Wake by demure101

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Thursday is here again but I have nothing much to recommend even though there are six new works for you to view.

Boxlicker101 has written one of his short ‘n sweaty verses.

exquisitelifetime has three there for your edification, the double spacing takes up a lot of space but there’s nothing new or enchanting here.

Finally techchick submits a haiku and I’m not about to enter into the never-ending question – what is a haiku?

My one piece of enjoyment was demure101’s Plea , a sailors prayer to Athena, goddess of (according to Wikipedia) wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill which covers most bases. The poem is nicely done but, once again, I’d dispense with the stricture of trying to rhyme (end with spent), it would be better in free form. Some nice lines and atmosphere.

Enjoy your day and check out today's new poems

 

[Tzara]

Hey, it's Friday! Normally, I would be filling my pen with poison ink about now to tell you what I think about the new poems, but there aren't any, at least as yet. So we'll now resume your regularly scheduled programming.

Have a nice weekend, all.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Twelve New Poems were posted for Saturday. Among these is an offering by Bebhinn that I quite liked (Madame and Eve) for its narrative tone. Pas de deux by Desejo is greater than the sum of its parts. And, due to my perverse love of Sci Fi, I must mention Harry Hill's KSFOS. There ya go. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

 

[bronzeage]

பருப்புக்குள் காமப் படகு …! Cunt by Prasa

I have absolutely no idea what this is about, but for those who can read the title, Prasa has many more.

We have three submissions by new Lit poet NarcissusRex. All three are nice love poems. The second and third are rhyming couplets and both are very well done.

Reasons by NarcissusRex

The Succubus by NarcissusRex

On a Kiss by NarcissusRex


A short piece by gi-janet which gives the answer, but the question is uncertain.
Change by gi_janet


A first submission by a new Lit poet. It is a rhyming piece in an archaic tone, and very well done.
Ecstatica by Parzifal

Lonely body by txgoodgirlgg
This is a good piece with a major flaw. It is an address in second person. You read it and realize the poet knows things you have done and feel, but can't remember doing any of that stuff. You wonder how this is possible. Perhaps the poet has transferred their feelings to you, or just wishes this was what you might do and feel. You wonder if the poem would work better in first person voice.


This piece is about the psychology of a cuckold, by a new lit poet. It's a sort of peak under the bandage meditation.
Queen for a day by Drbeamer3333

The silence you endure by Nina327
A very good poem addressed to one who can't understand why his lover is silent in the face of his suit.


Baladeer is a new Lit poet who requested feedback, so I added his submissions to the Tuesday list. All of them are worth the time to read.

I Remember You by Baladeer
I like this poem. It has an honest voice of longing and desire. It tells of this strange new form of long distance relationship known as internet love. I know a poetry forum that actually has a category for internet love poems. This piece ends on a sad note as skin contact love has to cede the field to the webcam.

Our Morning by BaladeerThis is a sweet love poem which records waking together. I like this kind of tender reliving of a moment.

God of Gold by Baladeer This is a catalog of one man's finer points. It is comprehensive, but clinical at times.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Six new pieces to peruse today.

First Steelsdesire’s long poem Sweet Dreams My Love could do with some serious pruning. There’s a lot of sturm und drang leading to a non-conclusion. It is a tale of love and longing but the emotion we’re supposed to feel is lost in the hyperbole.

LexiRoseLexi has a promising idea for a poem Men I have known but it failed to absorb me enough to reading it a second time, perhaps twenty one broken relationships just gets boring. Maybe LRL could take each individual and make him one of twenty one poems.

Next comes cavu182 with Morse de-coded . Once more I struggled to finish reading this with its forced rhyming, eg:

I scanned your form
your mental state
your lack of clothes
your sensual plate,
Heaped with tasty
treats, h'ordeuvres
I ran my hand
along your curves,

It’s a real shame because the meter is steady throughout the poem for the most part.
SBB by the same author is shorter and amusing. Of the two by cavu182 I prefer this one.

Roxxystclair presents two, the first entitled One Word is a detailed description of two lovers coming together but we’re never told what the “one word” is and there’s little to intrigue us about the lovers or invest time looking for it. A Reader’s Digest of coupling. It is He is in a similar vein, “He” sound great but HOW and WHY is he so wonderful? More info. please.

That’s all, no recommendations this week. Hopefully next week’s catch will be tastier.

 

[Tzara]

It's a sunny and warm Friday afternoon here in the PNW and we have six new poems posted today. How about a little stroll through Newpoetryland?

• The first poem is by greenmountaineer, one of my favorite Lit poets. Mother Theresa's moment of Doubt is, like all of gm's work, thoughtful and thought-provoking. This time he takes on religion and religious doubt in a semi-form poem that uses end rhyme in an interesting and unusual way in the last stanza. I'm not sure that, at least for me, the poem works as well as some of gm's other work, but still way more interesting that almost anything else that gets posted here. Definitely recommended.

• Conceivable by DarkGrayStar runs along as your basic Lit erotic poem:
  I am your slut.
  Use me. Abuse me.​
  until the last stanza, which is just a touch more interesting than the usual conclusion to this kind of poem.

• Another pretty standard Lit erotic poem is For Her: Oral Pleasure by stealth61bibi. Written in rhymed couplets (I start by kissing her up and down. / I kiss her front and back and all around.), it delivers pretty much what you'd think it would deliver.

• I found it a little hard to follow Vampire's Diary by blkhrt, at least in part because of the sometimes deliberately archaic language. It seems to be (surprise!) a poem written from the viewpoint of a vampire.

• Finally, Stormo posts two erotic poems each written to a bit of a specialized community. Your FEET seems focused on foot fetishism and Manhorse on a ponyboy fetish. Neither of these have much appeal to me, so I can offer no judgment on their eroticism. As poetry, they are pretty Lit Standard.

Hope you have weather as nice as it is here today. Have a great weekend, people.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

There are six New Poems for Saturday, August 5th.

The Promise by flabuf is a bit talky but has a good shape and clear message about, somewhat as one expects from the title, disappointment in love.

Moondarkness's Little Legend shows some promise and has a solid ending, but is vague in places and overwritten in others. Still, better than much of what Lit offers and worthy of encouragement.

I think I most enjoyed MasterJere's My Kingdom the sea though I wish he had given a more clear reason for the narrator wishing to leave the sea in the final stanza. Still the ending is nicely set up and the writer uses repetition effectively, I think.

Yellow Dreams by cavu182 has a clear rhyme structure and narrative. Like the other offerings, it is best at the finish.

Otherwise there is a really talky diary entry style love poem and sucking/fucking wife. Hope the remainder of your weekend is yummy. I am out in search of . . . coffee!

 

[CharleyH]

Sunday, August 5

Not many poems today, but I highly recommend Oneiria's Still Life haiku. Love it! It's very morbid, yet ingenious.

 

[bronzeage]

Mexico by OhRhett

This is OhRhett's first Lit submission. It's a sweet love poem, but the wordiness and line structure bog down the read.

There are two submissions by new Lit poet Caedy.

Simple by Caedy
This is a delightful narrative about waking up with a lover. Everyone should read this one.

Cradle of Faith by Caedy

The imagery in this piece borders on cliche, but it's well handled. Another good read.

Ex’s by Everettcb

A clever philosophical lament.

who sees you dance? by newoldcentury

A very good rhyming piece from a new, but prolific lit poet. A recommended read.

Requiem by flabuf

A true lament about loss. Very well done.

Usain in London '12 by Ashesh9

A thumbnail sportscast from Ashesh.

The dream by LordIceLupus

A sweet love poem and a nice read.

Sexy Girls from Seattle by Boxlicker101
There's always a place for one more limerick.

Winter by topace

An ode to Canadian winter, which seems to be an inexhaustible source of material.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Three new arrivals today, none grabbed me but you might love them. Go and check ‘em out here.

 

[Tzara]

Well, lookie here. It's Friday again and time for me to read some new poems. Just three new ones today:

• Leaning towards regret by arrow909 is a longish lament for a relationship that has soured, though not (at least it sounds to me) like an especially sexual one. More of a teacher/student, father-figure/young woman one. There are some spelling and grammatical errors, but the poem seems heartfelt and honest without being whiny.

• New poet SweetSweetSurrender's first offering, Love's Embrace is a quite long erotic poem more or less of the usual Lit type except that the narratorial viewpoint (and the narrator's partner's) seems to move from gender to gender. While confusing, it is at least different from the usual fare.

• Lastly is another poet new to Lit, Nathanahtan whose Hate that I loved You is another bad relationship recap poem. Strings of end-rhymed lines (One step closer to the door, / my head starts feeling sore, / Thinking I married a whore.) gives it a bit of a hip-hop sound, at least to my distinctly unhip ears. I'm not sure that's a good thing, but that's more or less how it sounds to me.

That's it for today. Have a great weekend, everyone.