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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
The Newspaper Factory
Could robots make a newspaper? The question is timely and sage, for reporters may be obsolete, in this brave new computer age. Robot spelling is impeccable, their grammar…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
Nano Morning
See the morning sunlight glinting on the nanobots dotting the roses like dew transforming
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
To be a poet (#6 in a possibly infinite series)
Is it really a poem or is it prose with line breaks? Contrary to popular belief, poetry does not have to be unreadable, with random words thrown together in no apparent order.…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
In the Darkness
I'll give you a quarter to go into the cavern, to seek out the monsters in the plummeting black. Inch by inch pushing your feet to new regions, hands blindly feeling each…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
A Halloween Poetry Treat!
Every year the Science Fiction Poetry Association hosts a Halloween poetry page. The page contains audio files of poets reading their spookiest poems. Or in my case this year…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
Rhapsody in Red
In a way it's like sitting in a jazz club late at night, after enough drinks to be mellow but not so many that you don't notice the shot. There's smoke in the room and smoky…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
To be a poet (#5 in a possibly infinite series)
Build a poem from start to finish. It's possible to just throw together words and get a decent poem but mostly it doesn't work well. It's better to have a beginning and an end…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
The Legend of the Swan
Green and yellow reeds sway beside the pond, broken by a few poplars and willows and the counter-swaying of snakes or weasels patrolling. The pond is wide and blue, like a…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
To be a poet (#4 in a possibly infinite series)
It's a truism that poets keep notebooks. I keep mine on the computer but I used to have actual physical notebooks of mostly unfinished and unusable poetic work. Not everything…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
The Gathering
Here is a mystery, felt in the bone, of spirits whose names should never be known of ancient wise men who've yet to atone, for crimes of blood splashed across white stone.…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
To be a poet (#3 in a possibly infinite series)
There are many schools and types of poetry. Should a poet pick one and master it? Pros It gives structure to your practice. Being a master of something is a good feeling and…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
The Caves of Men
People laugh now at the lives of cavemen. But at the time, we loved those caves. A cave was safe, more or less, once you cleaned out the animals and built a gate at the…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
To be a poet (#2 in a possibly infinite series)
The heart of poetry is metaphor. They teach it wrong in school. They make you memorize the difference between metaphor and simile (like something vs is something) as if the names…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
Pilot
The stars pass like snowflakes driven by a silent hard wind. The crew dangle in their berths, flash frozen mannikins of engineers and explorers. In between such little…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
To be a poet (#1 in a possibly infinite series)
Art evokes. It causes the viewer to experience some emotion. Poetry uses sound, rhythm, rhyme and metaphor to point toward the intended emotion, so that it can be discovered and…
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irvingprime (35)in #originalpoem • 8 years ago
Guardians at the Edges
The Walkers in the Darkness have a duty they say, to never miss a turning but to walk the entire way, to follow paths and byways that are little seen by day, there behind…
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irvingprime (35)in #poetry • 8 years ago
Launch
Look up. What do you see? There once was a skyscraper, tall as the sky, bright as the ocean, in the midsummer sun. There once was a rocket, white as a glacier, strong as…
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irvingprime (35)in #introduceyourself • 8 years ago
My kingdom for a beer
I've been a web developer for a few years, more or less falling into it by accident. It's good, interesting work and it mostly keeps me busy. The money tends to be better than…
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