Just being amusing makes them better than 99.9% of the usual. The point. as always, is to be able to do this. There is more there there than the imputed there of verse a la mode.
kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: yeah not huge interest from me either; though several of these are
amusing. 'kathemeripoesis' for instance (some people throw everything
away no matter when they've written it). and 'puzzlement' should be a
couplet in a poem, though it probably works the best on its own out of
all these. the epigram seems a pretty lifeless form, like obvious
poetry & aphorism mixed.
KS
On 29/07/07, Jon Corelis wrote:
> LIFE
>
> You start out young and strong and bold
> and end up doing as you're told.
>
>
> PUZZLEMENT
>
> I sometimes cannot help but wonder
> why God doesn't speak in thunder.
>
>
> CATULLUS: ODI ET AMO [FROM THE LATIN]
>
> I hate and love: it may seem strange to you,
> but I am crucified between the two.
>
>
> ANNALES VOLUSI [AFTER CATULLUS]
>
> The Volusian "Saga of Rome"
> has a place in every home,
> since "The Saga of Rome" by Volusius
> makes a wonderful wipe for your tooshius.
>
>
> CREDO [FROM THE GREEK OF CALLIMACHUS]
>
> I hate political poems. Not for me,
> the human wad that clogs the great high way.
> A love that's everyone's business? Forget it. A drink
> from the common trough? No, thanks. The public: yuck.
>
> CALLIMACHUS: HERACLEITUS
>
> The news you were gone, Heracleitus, brought me to tears:
> I remembered how many twilights we'd worn out together,
> talking the sun to his rest. And now, I suppose,
> you are nothing but dust, old friend, in your home far away.
> But your nightingales are singing, too quick for the touch
> even of death who robs us of everything.
>
>
> THE MARQUIS DE SADE
>
> The Marquis de Sade
> was decidedly odd.
> He provides some diversion
> if you share his perversion.
> Else better let be
> that appalling Marquis.
>
>
> KATHEMERIPOIESIS
>
> It's fine to write a poem a day,
> provided you throw them all away.
>
>
> ARCHILOCHUS: THE SHIELD [FROM THE GREEK]
>
> Some Thracian soldier's got my shield;
> I tossed it when I ran away.
> So fuck the shield. I'll get one new
> and fight again another day.
>
>
> ANOTHER VERSION:
>
> I jettisoned my gear
> when I ran from the recent strife,
> so I'm out the price of a shield:
> not much to pay for your life.
>
>
> ON THE DEATH OF AN ENEMY
>
> Unjust, that this will happen to me too,
> who am so much a better man than you.
>
>
> THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUALITY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
>
> An ancient Roman bard, or vates,
> highly praised his puer's nates.
> But since this poet was the doer,
> he counts as straight, unlike the puer.
>
>
> A MEDITATION
>
> I'm going to die.
> God knows why.
>
>
> SIMONIDES: EPITAPH FOR THE SPARTANS AT THERMOPYLAE [FROM THE GREEK]
>
> Stranger, report to the Spartans
> we lie here, mission accomplished.
>
>
> NONBEING [FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY]
>
> Kiss my ass, world, after I'm dead and gone.
> No reason I should care what's going on.
>
>
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>
> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
>
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