I wrote a poem

[dr_tectonic]

I was listening to NPR
on the drive home
this evening
and they spoke

of Stephen Crane,
master of short poems.
And as the tail-lights
blazed before me

Red, like courage,
I thought, O!  Yes!
I'll do it!  Tonight,
I'll write a poem

shorter than a sonnet, longer than haiku!
...but already I can see that I have
                                      failed.

Comments

[redbeardedblond.livejournal.com]

If'n you don't quit bein' all highfalutin' and amazin' I'ma gonna hafta fawl in luv wit' you!

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Best not -- I can think of four(!) boyfriends who might take issue. ;-)

[redbeardedblond.livejournal.com]

only four?

*smirk*

methinks i must haiku to kolob!

*snicker*

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Four! I'm coming back as a gay man in my next life.

You're poem's at least as good as the ones they aired online! (Not impressed by Uncle's Dogs' Names poem, and neither was Mr. Crane, though reportedly Mr. Twain liked it.)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Can't all good thoughts
Be expressed
Shorter than haiku?

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Four. Two are mine, and two are his.
Us polyamorists, we're everywhere!

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

"I'll take Mormon hymns that suck for $400, Alex."

[dpolicar]

Yeah, that's the problem with polyamorists. Too many jealous boyfriends to deal with.

No, wait...

[dpolicar]

Seek levity
In brevity.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

At a certain point, things might start to look like the Oneida community, but without that awkward method for avoiding contraception.

[This is neither a good thing nor a bad thing...]

[redbeardedblond.livejournal.com]

This mormon hymn talks about pioneer children and what they did as they walked and walked and walked and walked.

[ng-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

Wow, how had I never heard of this Oneida Community before?

Oh yeah, that was something that happened east of the Mississippi. But thanks to teh Intarwebs I can find out what they were about in seconds.

Thanks!

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Methinks I'll dine on monogamous fare,
He lacked courage to tell, and I to share.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

They're a pretty peculiar bunch. One of these days we'll visit the site; it's halfway between where I went to grad school and where my partner's family lives.

That whole region of upstate NY is basically the Northern California of the mid-19th century; if you're bored, go look up the Burned-Over District. Mormonism, Christian Science, Free Thought, the Oneidas; they all came from that area, and in that time frame. Thank you, Erie Canal.

[shawnsyms.livejournal.com]

I love the fifteenth line the best!

:0)

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks!