The Guitar Player

short and simple, with some homophonics.  I almost subtitled it with someone's name. 



The Guitar Player


The bard intones
The bar in tones
That rose in verse
The rows, inverse
Of crowds in rapt attention

One-ee-and-uh two
One need and a tune
Resonation
Resignation,
Strum it 'til it's done

The lyrics from the stage,
"I'll be famous someday..."
And he sang it so often,
That we put it on his grave
I'll be famous, someday

Relics

backwards and forwards.  working titles included "The People Behind the Walls" and "Boogeymen."

Relics


Far beyond secrets
A people hidden
Peripheral
Peeking
(not quite invisible)
Phantasms
Emerging later,
Flashbulb-broken afterimages
Touching nothing
(remain still)
Traces
Still remain
Nothing touching
Afterimages, broken flashbulbs
Later, a merging
Phantasms
In visible quiet knots
Peaking
Peripheral
Hidden peepholes
A secret
Beyond far

Bulletin Board Speeches

homophonic.  

Bulletin Board Speeches


A front all a tack
Instill calm, oddities
Affront all attack
In still commodities
To dis-Orient manufacturing
Pause for applause, able
To disorient men you're factoring
Pause for a plausible
Winning poll numb3r
Citizens:
Now the best, strong again!

Waning pall, NUMBer
Citizens
Now the best?  Wrong again
Promise them anything
The moon on a string, gents
Promise them many things
Then moon on a stringent
Raucous frenzy 
Rock us frenzied
To lie is not to sin
Anything to win

Holding Hands on a Beach

Yet another that reads the same backwards.  Enjoy.
 

Holding Hands on a Beach


Valentine's happy comfort
In creased palms
In folded warmth
In one another
Lullabies of
Soothing waves
Eternal
Paradise
Eternal waves
Soothing of lullabies
Another one
In warmth
Enfolded palms
Increased comfort
Happy Valentine's

Wheelchair Cavalry

I can write forwards and backwards.  I like how this one turned out.


Wheelchair Cavalry


Sitting before us
Men, hoarse
Reels whir, we
Watch the flicks
Nurse the worn
In mobile gestures
Lost for something
Unfilmed
Something for lost jest
You're immobile, worn
The nurse flicks the watch
We were real horsemen
Us, before sitting

The Pet Shop

last year I worked primarily on narrative poems, paying close attention to stresses, rhyme and false rhyme.  this year I plan to focus more on homophone poems (like the one below) and on further exploration of the backwards-forwards form. 



The Pet Shop


Eyebrows seeking
I browse, eking
Some to purrs
Sum to purse,
Too cute to pass up

The pet store
Per pet, you all
Marvel us, tells
Marvelous tails
The pet's tore
Perpetual
Delight into the heart

One For the Wall Street Protesters

backwards-forwards.


One For the Wall Street Protesters


Enriched diffidence
The poor's interest
Interpreted fee as collapse
On stable
Distrusts
In securities' exchanged
Insecurities
This trust's
Unstable lapse-
Fiasco!
Interpreted:
Interest pours the dividends
Enriched