I write poems to pass the time, and sometimes it turns out well. Updates most weeks, usually on Tuesday. 2011 was a year for narrative works, generally using standard poetic tools. 2012 will be focused on homophonic and backwards/forwards pieces.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A Swamp Thing
I went canoe camping in a swamp once. Lots of bugs and flora growing on the water,, the ground, hanging from the trees... lively place, I suppose.
Poem is another alternating homophone/simple rhyme. From a writing perspective, alternating with easy rhymes is a cleansing complement to the somewhat taxing generation of coherent homophones.
A Swamp Thing
I'd pacified
Petty hate
Ides pass if I'd
Check the date
Idle lei
Round the throat
I'd allay
Strength by rote
In knee-deep, eating
All that's still
In needy peat, in
Algal swill
Dismal threats
Rotting masts
A small thread
Crumbles last
Amidst the fungus
Wilding gnats
A mist that fun gusts
Fuel the fast-
Fading past
Dust to mud
Ash to gas
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a very poetic picture of a swamp and its inhabits.
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