This is the part of the site where visual artists can show yet another dimension of their artistry, the written word. While many of these initial pieces work very well visually and are often inspired by specific paintings, sculptures and mixed medium pieces, members should feel free to post any poem on any subject at all. If your work is over a few pages please use the 'Attach File' option. Thank you and may the Muse be with you.
Posted at Jun 20/2005 10:45PM:
Peter-eye:
3-body odes; toenail, teeth, hair, respectively
by Peter Schwartz
ode to a toenail
you are a solid reservoir, curved
a twig of infinite humanity
a bent thing
a tiny, tiny
bridge
ode to a teeth
my alien hunger slides over you
hot or cold or simply
nowhere in between
ode to a hair
there were no long
drawn out goodbyes
no sighs down the drain
you were a thin pin
gone soft, softer
Posted at Jun 21/2005 09:04PM by claudia:
Cosmic Twang
Annoying at the start
A twitching blur down deep
Bones quiver and hum
Then, from some liverlike region
It spreads and waves
A flip, inside out it seems
Twisting, a spring unwinds
Clinging, catching and tenuously holding…
Dissipation seems unfair.
Posted at Jun 21/2005 09:06PM by claudia:
Send and receive
A spring green signal bounced, then pooled in the dust by the path
emitted from a bowl of earth, yet somehow electronic
the algorithmic evening was slipping away
growing, transformed components entwined the bowl of sound
an epiphytic spring loaded contraption...
meanwhile a distant satellite gleamed and responded
Home
Posted at Jul 06/2005 03:39PM:
Peter-eye: Here are some flowers for you dear Claudia, some "living sculptures" as you so delicately put it:
Just released: The Blossoms of the Night-Blooming Cereus, by Ursula T. Gibson
A collection of 68 poems, perfect-bound, 107 pages.
available at:
http://www.publishamerica.com, POETRY, page 9, or
through Barnes & Noble, ISBN 1-4137-6482-7; $16.95 plus s&h.
Ursula T. Gibson has been Poetry Editor for Poetic Voices
http://www.poeticvoices.com since 1997. She has won many prizes for her poetry and issued three chapbooks since 1990. She reads at poetry venues in the Los Angeles/Pasadena area on a regular basis.
Hey sorry folks, but that poem got accepted for publishing! Woohoo!! Maybe I should post another one here because it's good luck, tune in soon....
Posted at Oct 07/2005 03:47PM:
[Peter]:
sacred spot
left my orbit's string
on the back of a musical chair
all that music hanging there
like the hair of a dog year;
flora - in a droplet of blood
ferns, soft circa.
some terra
cannot be
improved.
Posted at Oct 16/2005 11:15AM:
Claudia: I like it, Pete. And, congrats on the recent publishing!
