Zubenelgenubi Dances In the Harmonic Minor
for haikujaguar ...

I saw the old Arabian Nights: For a thousand nights and a night ( Read more... )

This is a poem inspired by peteralway's "Dulcimandyas". Right now I think the quatrains work best as a prologue to the tune. ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago, I wrote a poem about the many poets who died on the Western Front during what was then called The Great War, but was often cursed with many epithets. Today it has been diminished by time, the deaths of its surviving participants, and yet another Hideous War in Europe during my Father's generation: We now call it World War I ( Read more... )

A Visitor's Response to " Emerald Green"

I watched with awe the Mountain strikes below the silver bow,
Feared the giant troll who grabs the bug within his maw,
Climbed about the spiraled walk, been gnomon on the hill;
And only glimpsed a tower but half-seen.
A traveller's senses merely screen
Emerald green that short tours never fill.
Any problems ( Read more... )

Not exactly a true sonnet; but close enough for fun -- and at least it has the right number of lines:The Librarian's Sonnet
for sazettelThe sophomore English student came to me ( Read more... )

Okay, here's another poem from my transhuman setting. It is, I hope, a gentle parody of Kipling's lyrical poem "Mandalay." A week or so ago I happened to listen to a CD that Tim Ryan was good enough to transfer from a tape I purchased over a decade ago, the late Bill Maraschiello's Magnetic Elixir. Bill performed Kipling's "Mandalay" and his ( Read more... )

From my transhuman setting here is an offering ...

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Memorializing a spur-of-the moment parody of a famous poem:The Waterway Not Taken

Two ways diverged on a northern lake,
And sorry I could not paddle both
And be one kayaker, a look I'd take
Down the lillies as far as they'd make
Left of reeds bent in the undergrowth
...
- Dave Alway, 27 August 2006 (Revised 28 August 2006)

Now, back to your ( Read more... )

( Click to read the poetry that inspired Ralph Vaughn Williams ... )

Barfy Fever
With apologies to John Masefield and peteralway

I must go barf in the seas again - damned nauseous seasick life!
With the wave sway and seaweed splay, my head's on a bloody knife!
For all I ask is a fist in the mouth of that laughing fellow-rover,
Exhausted sleep and dizzy dream: please get this migraine over!