The Poetry Thread

[Oldrottenhead]

My daughter just got back from 3 years in australia and wants me to go with her to some "slam poetry" events locally. i've written one for it, but she says i need to do ten minutes worth of stuff, so if i do go i might try sneak by with some song lyrics.

Here's what i wrote for it.
Perhaps i should record it as spoken verse.
But for now try imagine it as a performance spoken out lout et al. LOL.
It is what it is.

I'm new to this malarkey
And don't know all the rules
Is it stream of thought
Created on the spot
Or written down first
Every word checked, crossed
Tweaked until the meaning's lost
Should it rhyme
Or be more sublime
Pretentious moi
Up my arse
Or better than that
See I'm new to this malarkey
I usually write songs
With a chorus a verse
And a tune you can hum
Poetry's poor cousin?
Who knows
I don't know the audience
They don't know me
Should it be political
Or from the soul
Personal
How much of myself
Is it safe to share
Will anyone care
I don't know
I'm new to this malarkey
Maybe I'll do it again
Sometime

[SteveB]

Given that S&G were early influences, this is sheer poetry to me. 

[bruno]

I always like the
   "Some rhymes rhyme,
    and some do not"

 

B

[SteveB]

Given the media brouhaha and new Papa's age, he may be the last pontiff many of us see. (Or want to!)

            Leo's Den.

I contemplate the striding-edge of
Three score years and ten.
Where logic states that now I shall not
Pass this way again.
But what if logic, science and church
Have missed some hidden math.
And their futures all predicted there
Wilfully collapse.
And to everyone's astonishment
We travel a circular path.