Stevens Poems - Poems about Stevens

I compose my poems like Wallace Stevens

I compose my poems like Wallace Stevens
by walking the streets of my town.
But unlike the esteemed Wallace Stevens,
I don't have to memorize or write my poems down.

I just turn on my cellphone's recorder,
then slowly whisper my word into it.
But instead of composing gems, like Wallace Stevens,
I tend to produce just a drivel of shhhhh~it.

Poets Cannot Hide

Wallace Stevens said: 
"Poetry is not personal."
He tried never to divulge
anything about himself
in his poems.

Or so he said.
But, the work 
is self-revelatory, veiled confessions,
repeated choices -- water, sea motion,
weather, the sky -- introspective isolation --
those silences and descriptive phrases
that communicate and characterize.

Human, 
no one -- especially not poets --
can really hide.

Stevens Anger Triggers

Irritated Steven wrote his anger triggers down.
His therapist read them, trying not to frown.
He asked his client to number them now
Number 106 was a fat dairy cow.

Number 214 was bird booby that was blue.
All together there were a thousand and two.
Everything made him mad – paper clips even.
Therapist knew he had a lifetime of work

CLERIHEW stevens

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Wallace Stevens so enigmatic
whimsical fanciful& symbolic
His Valley Candle*blew&blew
the interpretation is up to you

Emagi Stevens Ice Cream

Wallace Stevens ' EMPEROR OF ICE CREAM'

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Emagi Stevens Valley Candle

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Imagist Mvp Stevens

Wallace Stevens 1879-1955

with imagist-poetics once did strive
Enigma in his 'Valley Candle'
helped his poetry to sell well

Cat Stevens

As morning broke
the world had grown solumn
one Saturday night he found only trouble
plucking a hard headed woman
from the moon's lonely shadow.
In great desperation
he hopped aboard a peace train
at last a parched flower 
had found sweetened rain-

Cat Stevens Was Right

Before the analysis
before the dissection
First came the reading
—the deepest of cuts

(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)

Clerihew Stevens

Wallace Stevens 1879-1955
with imagist-poetics once did strive
Enigma in his 'Valley Candle'
helped his poetybegin to sell

Clerihew Stevens

Businessman poet Wallace Stevens
very creative with a poetic pen
A contemporary metaphysical wit
as 'Valley Candle' enigmatically  does sit

Cat Stevens

Morning has broken, lyrics with a gentle allure
Inspirational words from Cat Stevens, so peaceful, so pure
Possessed a complex mind     
Unique, a one-of-a-kind
Cat's music was mesmerizing, euphoria was assured

Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Tiger, Inspired By Wallace Stevens

I
Blades of grass slice past.
A striped assassin.
The tiger goes unnoticed.

II
Empowered by legend, 
The tiger grows strong.
Eroded by greed,
The tiger grows few.

III
Alone, he stalked, hunting prey, days on end.
Now he lies still, a striped, tattered trophy, alone.

IV
Two men.  
One tiger. 
One fate.

V
I remember two tigers.
One is ferocious, cunning, agile.
Another is broken, malnourished.
I remember one tiger.

VI
His

Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery, So Don'T Sue Me, Wallace Stevens

I know what a poem
looks like.

I know how to make
my prose look like verse.

A little tuck here,
an indent there,

et voila! It’s verse! 
or worse ...

a pale imitation of seem.
(can I have some ice cream?)

Chris Stevens

Death in the Desert
Good man dragged though the streets
not expecting such an inauspiscous end
Islam lovely Islam giving such treets

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