So, we have 5 poets drumming, 4 tortured poets...I'm hearing "and one poet
doing a soliloquy-y"!
I think we need a formal feast day and a song to go with it. While I'm not
one of the 4 poets tortured group, I am a tortured poet. Nice rondeau, Gar,
IMHO. Fresh theme and approach.
Ter
> If you may remember, FTP is Four Poets Tortured, a group of poets who
> challenge each other with short forms, such as Sedoka, Pantun and
Rondeaus.
> Thanks. Gary
>
> Rondeau Collector
>
> When will it end, this obsession
> to multiply my possessions?
> Belongings sought, then even more,
> every cupboard and drawer
> overflows with my collections.
>
> To make a decent impression
> or simply for conversation?
> Tasteless kitsch and trashy kickshaw
> not suitable for a junk store
> (where it all ends).
>
> Perhaps my inner expression
> is released through the suggestion
> that the dreary claptrap is pure
> in its propriety before
> the bar of my bare ambition.
> So it now ends.
>
> May Vienna, and Gary tortured at:
http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html
>
> The Wild/Eliot Hyperpoem at: http://wildhyper.homestead.com/front.html
>
> Poets for Peace. ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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