http://www.anewpoetics.com/ A New Poetics en Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:47:00 GMT Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:47:00 GMT info@anewpoetics.com info@anewpoetics.com http://www.anewpoetics.com/images/a-new-poetics.GIF http://www.anewpoetics.com/ http://www.anewpoetics.com/welsh-poetry/ I've been on a kick recently of looking up non-English verse forms and trying to do them in English. Of course I'm not the first one to try Cynghanedd, a... http://www.anewpoetics.com/welsh-poetry/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/welsh-poetry/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:47:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/rain-poem/2/ "Gravity" Amoebic bits of weightless gray Are wrested from the womb And flung to face the world. The naked fall freezes and forms Defaulted pilgrims, heavy burdens For airy heights... http://www.anewpoetics.com/rain-poem/2/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/rain-poem/2/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:15:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/rondeau-redouble/ Where shadows go no one can tell, As when the night clicks shut its chest, Abruptly ending daylight's soft farewell, Enclosing all in darkness tight compressed. The sun retreats into... http://www.anewpoetics.com/rondeau-redouble/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/rondeau-redouble/ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:09:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/terza-rima/ December boughs stretch out like claws That scratch around for sustenance Which won't be found till Springtime thaws. This road's in need of maintenance, But signs say snow forestalls the... http://www.anewpoetics.com/terza-rima/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/terza-rima/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:28:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/richard-wilbur/ Seeing the snowman standing all alone In dusk and cold is more than he can bear. The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare A night of gnashings and... http://www.anewpoetics.com/richard-wilbur/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/richard-wilbur/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:24:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/sonnet-form/ When I went out to shed my dismal mood Despite the driving snow that made my vision blurred, I saw a smear of dark within the white, a bird That... http://www.anewpoetics.com/sonnet-form/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/sonnet-form/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:08:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/elizabeth-bishop/ At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee, waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb that was going to be served from a certain balcony --like kings of old, or... http://www.anewpoetics.com/elizabeth-bishop/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/elizabeth-bishop/ Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:11:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/seamus-heaney/ Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a... http://www.anewpoetics.com/seamus-heaney/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/seamus-heaney/ Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:38:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/george-herbert/2/ LORD, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poor: With thee O let me rise As... http://www.anewpoetics.com/george-herbert/2/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/george-herbert/2/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/3/ This, "Redemption," is the newest incarnation of my old "Entropy" poem, which I posted earlier on the blog: "Redemption" The leaves of summer heave in the heat And give their... http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/3/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/3/ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:40:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/winter-poem/ "Winter's First Breath" When winter comes to take the place of fall the earth prepares for long-awaited sleep. When other people want to crawl to comfort, there's a call to... http://www.anewpoetics.com/winter-poem/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/winter-poem/ Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/george-herbert/1/ Having been tenant long to a rich lord, Not thriving, I resolved to be bold, And make a suit unto him, to afford A new small-rented lease, and cancel the... http://www.anewpoetics.com/george-herbert/1/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/george-herbert/1/ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:20:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/2/ The summer leaves gasp in the heat, Giving their breath to drowning limbs That offer them drinks in return; A symbiotic love affair-- Sighing leaves caressing breathless boughs. Solstitial wells... http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/2/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/2/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:11:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/shakespeare-sonnet/ That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where... http://www.anewpoetics.com/shakespeare-sonnet/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/shakespeare-sonnet/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:22:00 GMT http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/1/ A while back I posted a poem called "Trapping the Stars." Here it is in that original incarnation: Soul's door spreads wide For stars to move in, Webbing the velvet... http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/1/#comments http://www.anewpoetics.com/nature-poem/1/ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:15:00 GMT