Tag: poetry
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Where’s the Epic Poems About the Moon Landing?
“Had the ancient Greeks rowed a trireme (boat) to the moon, you can bet there would be a 12-volume epic about that adventure.” – Christian Bök, in Maclean’s Poets, says Christian Bök, have spent too much time writing about their own mundane problems when amazing achievements of mankind have been happening all around them. And…
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EPICNESS in the Footsteps of Tolkien
I went through a phase of being obsessed with epic fantasy (see the post Fantasy Round-Up). I still like it, but it’s less of an obsession. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time series… the more epic, the better. So when I was assigned to write poetry in school I tried my…
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An Immeasurable Fairyland
Another ‘light-hearted flight of fancy’ – also, the only bit of poetry I’ve been paid for. In contrast to last week’s poem, it rhymes. 🙂 An Immeasurable Fairyland I walked into a lonesome glade Where on stem and leaf and every blade Of grass there danced a fairy maid And trails of gems through…
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Rhymes and Non-Rhymes
I like poetry to rhyme. Sure, some non-rhyming poetry is neat, but as a kid it stuck in my head that poems = rhymes, and poems that don’t rhyme feel weird somehow. Still, I’ve written some stuff that doesn’t rhyme. I like the challenge of rhyming, but when I want to write an idea quickly,…
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Limerick
No time for a deep, insightful blog post on the meaning of life today, so instead you get some nonsense poetry. Namely, a limerick: I walked along the beach And stepped upon a peach. I slipped, and whacked Muscle Man, who cracked And now I’m quite dead meat. Not exactly a wonderful limerick,…
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Vanity, Oh Vanity
OR: What Do You Mean I’m Not a Great Poet – I Got My Poem Published In a Vanity Anthology! On the subject of poetry, it’s very difficult to publish poetry, or get famous doing it. But that’s not exactly obvious if you just google “publish poetry” or “poetry contest” and thousands of hits…
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Teenage Dreams
This poem was actually on a bus ad – our city has this program called “Poetry on the Bus” to put poetry in everyday transit riders’ lives, and my poem was selected for it a couple years back. It was actually pretty cool to hear some of my friends saw it. It’s actually the last…
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Poetry
Poetry is whirling words Apple trees and bright blue birds Words that make you feel happy That is poetry. I’ll be the first to admit what little poetry I’ve written is mostly light-hearted flights of fancy. The one above was on my Grade 8 poetry portfolio, so it seems fitting to start off a short…
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