Best Imagists Poems
Doggerel IiDoggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The best book of the age...
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Categories:
imagists, animal, dog, humor, humorous,
Form:
Light Verse
Happily Never AfterHappily Never After: the Second Curse of the Horny Toad
by Michael R. Burch
He did not think of love of Her at all
frog-plangent nights, as moons engoldened roads
through crumbling stonewalled provinces, where toads
(nee princes) ruled in chinks and grew so small
at last to be invisible....
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Categories:
imagists, addiction, allegory, child, childhood,
Form:
Sonnet
The Second Curse of the Horny ToadHappily Never After (the Second Curse of the Horny Toad)
by Michael R. Burch
He did not think of love of Her at all
frog-plangent nights, as moons engoldened roads
through crumbling stonewalled provinces, where toads
(nee princes) ruled in chinks and grew so small
at last to be invisible. He...
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Categories:
imagists, allegory, analogy, animal, extended
Form:
Sonnet
AN EMPERICAL POETRY VIEWADDENDA
READING ALOUD Reading a poem silently ( as compared to aloud)is the difference between staring at sheet music and playing the music on an instrument.Recitation equates poetry to the experience of viewing a painting or touching a sculpture...each time the viewer / reciter brings a...
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Categories:
imagists, philosophy, poetry,
Form:
Didactic
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY imaginistaImagists use clear, simple language to paint a picture. Imagery, on the other hand, is use of flowery and descriptive language, and often figurative language, to create an image in the reader’s mind. An imagist would keep things simple, and not use imagery other than...
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Categories:
imagists, image, poets,
Form:
Didactic