Tag Archives: poetry

Jan
12
2012

50 Reasons Why Poetry is Better than Jazz

by lunc

Written in response to a terrible assault on the creativity of the written and spoken word over at GP,  in this Poetry Is Doomed article.

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Nov
22
2011

Flashback

by lunc

Recently I’ve been drawn back to gotpoetry.com.  In a small way I helped shape that place – a very small way indeed however enough that I have a silly sentimental attachment to it, with the emphasis mental.  I now take a silent role – reading and rating anonymously and posting the occasional haiku in the [...]

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Jul
24
2008

Presidential Sock Wash

by lunc

During the presidential run off, I wrote a poem about how stupid it all looks.  I guess it’s reasonably safe to post it here now that it is all over.  Most of the people who read it didn’t get it until I told them it was satire about the run off.  Then they thought it [...]

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Jul
10
2008

Ponderous Poetry

by lunc

For the first time ever, I entered a poem into a Haiku content.  I’m not certain it was the correct thing to do, but as it is not a thing that is easily undone I’ll have to leave it as is.  Actually it was a little forced since I had to bend it to fit [...]

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