The None Affair
...The none affair
The celebration ran into a Dogger bank that had
been trawled of fishy life and turned into windblown sand
of the endlessly repeated.
Take-away food and Portuguese soap tritenes...
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Categories:
triteness, absence, birth, birthday, faith,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Cant Figure It Out
...Must life really change
Perhaps words just rearrange
Interests ~ triteness
By
David Kavanagh...
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Categories:
triteness, allegory, allusion, life, riddle,
Form: Haiku
Seasons
...I saw the relaxing triteness of my generation destroyed,
How I mourned the camp.
Now restful is just the thing,
To get me wondering if the camp is reposeful.
I saw the beautiful develop of my g...
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Categories:
triteness, beautiful, spring,
Form: Free verse
School Days
...Going to School
My school days was not a happy one,
although history and writing was interesting
I wrote that my father had a herd of camels
in Morocco, but math eluded me.
Something like, ...
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Categories:
triteness, best friend, betrayal, birthday,
Form: Blank verse
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ...
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Categories:
triteness, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose
If Song
...If I had a song, it would wake me
in the dim before dawn with its buried
drumbeat of dogs breathing
beside the bed.
That song would tune up
past the window in a reedy piping
of some bird I n...
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Categories:
triteness, imagination, life, song-song, me,
Form: Quatrain