Poetry – a new metrical form

I was inspired a little while back to devise a new metrical form, structured according to the Metonic cycle.

Commonplace book #24

Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain at the gate;
“To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his Gods…”

- Thomas Macaulay, from Lays of Ancient Rome

A poem for the season

This is another very old piece, circa 1992. Can you tell what I was reading then? *

I suggest listening to ELO’s Fire on High while reading.  :-)

Poem – “The Man of Letters”

Another one from the archives…

Some fun light verse

Courtesy of the last issue of Amphora, I’ve just come across an amusing collection of humorous poetry on Greek myth by a trained Classicist, Scott Emmons. His targets include Prometheus (Come On Baby, Swipe My Fire) and Narcissus (I Only Have Eyes For Me), among others.

Endangered species

Endangered Species *
(c) 2009 by Amy Minato

Published in Siesta Lane: one cabin, no running water and a year living green

Words and music

I’ve been reading back through one of my favorite devotional texts

Dogwood

Tracing of white
Delicate in still-bare woods
Dogwood in bloom

Poetic fragment

This came to me the other morning as I was crawling up out of sleep… I’m not sure it’s great poetry, but it got me out of bed. :)

Fall not again into the abyss of sleep,
But rise and from your leaden slumber leap.
Let Morpheus’ chains no longer bind your eyes -
Cast off his silken fetters and arise!

To Whom it may concern

(In response to Rachel Barenblat’s poem “Beat (Shoftim)“)