http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/section-114-poetry-workshop en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:04:45 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2768-suggestions-and-thoughts http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2768-suggestions-and-thoughts No praise please, only suggestions anstey Poetry Workshop Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 0 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2768 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2768 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2768 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2841-villanelle-s-anyone http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2841-villanelle-s-anyone Hey, anyone like to write them? anstey Poetry Workshop Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 13 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2841 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2841 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2841 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3176-working-together http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3176-working-together Anyone want to collaborate with me? anstey Poetry Workshop Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 0 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3176 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3176 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3176 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8626-reincarnation http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8626-reincarnation In dimmit light, the seething saints of hell  walk free among the commonality, like charlatans with nothing left to sell but for their individuality.   Ragamuffin heroes spew their rants, The ragshags and tatterdemalion, and mutter insurrection as they dance on sidewalks - a concrete cotillion.   The morons and the idiots run loose and fester in their grand stupidity yet hold dominion as they spurn the truth; the agents of destruction's augury.   Sharp shards of pretense littering the streets, intelligent ideas erased by rain, their tendrils loosened as they chance to sleep, ... more tequila mockingbird Poetry Workshop Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:30:43 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 3 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8626 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8626 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8626 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8886-the-idea-of-order-at-sunset-on-the-mendocino-coast http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8886-the-idea-of-order-at-sunset-on-the-mendocino-coast The Idea of Order At Sunset on the Mendocino Coast A single bat flew in and out of the pine grove like a confused swift, diving and jerking against the pastel horizon's merging of violet to red. It returned, a dark dab against orange like a defect in a movie passing over the screen. I made a small fire of newspaper and twigs. Smoke swirled as randomly as a bat's flight. Sticks glowed orange and disintegrated into white ash. The bat flew out, dipped down to the high grass and disappeared again. Above the ceaseless sussuration of the ocean, thin and white against the high violet, a sickle of moon shone, too weak to be reflected-- and I feared shrinking into something less than bat, lint on a projector's lens, a defect on your screen, maybe, maybe as random. ... more C. E. Poetry Workshop Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:32:17 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 0 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8886 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8886 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8886 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-7693-prompt-anyone http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-7693-prompt-anyone Odd little tid bit to start something off? EmilyRose Poetry Workshop Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:24:22 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 0 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/7693 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/7693 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A7693 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-6438-strebor-s-typeface http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-6438-strebor-s-typeface Welcome to a plethora of rags soaked in life Strebor Poetry Workshop Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:25:39 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 1 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/6438 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/6438 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A6438 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5515-the-entrance http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5515-the-entrance in the style of William Matthews' "Mood Indigo" Magsie Poetry Workshop Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:07:58 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 1 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5515 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5515 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5515 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5530-blinking. http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5530-blinking.   my house is an aroma of familiarity, today will we rest for, a while.   I followed your eyes in car-lights and fading sunshine. I failed to gather your left-overs in falling leaves. I'm a certain memory. the brown of your face, I draw on sand. the white of your beard I sketch on window-panes. your voice the melancholy in calls of prayer. farewell, departing daylight.   Latifa Poetry Workshop Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:50:07 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 4 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5530 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5530 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5530 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5351-rainstorm http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5351-rainstorm Sing me a rainstorm of sad lover  tears. Fill it with thunder that rings in our ears. Paint it with lightning that covers the years. Sing me a rainstorm of sad lover tears.    Cry me a river writ in your sweetest hand. When thunder and lightning drown out the band, find me that world in a grain of sand. Cry me a river writ in your sweetest hand. tequila mockingbird Poetry Workshop Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:15:02 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 5 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5351 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5351 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5351 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5352-in-need-of-diverse-eyes. http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5352-in-need-of-diverse-eyes. This is titled "Analog Mother Fucker" based on one of the most interesting people I've ever met. I feel like there are pieces of this poem hidden that I just can't uncover. The hat's out, toss in your two cents please Roderick Poetry Workshop Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:32:42 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 0 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5352 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5352 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5352 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5017-the-narrator-observes-his-reader http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5017-the-narrator-observes-his-reader I was playing with the idea of subtracting an ictus from succeeding lines. And it became sort of this interlocking thing...but what I'm hoping is if someone can see what I was doing and if I did it correctly? deadpoetsmilk Poetry Workshop Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:57:50 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 13 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5017 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5017 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5017 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4979-o-anna-blume-wondering-if-it-works http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4979-o-anna-blume-wondering-if-it-works An Anna Blume (German: "To Anna Flower" also translated as "To Eve Blossom") is a famous poem. It was written in 1919 by the German Dada or rather Merz lyricist Kurt Schwitters. It has been translated into many languages and has inspired many poets to create replies or allusions deadpoetsmilk Poetry Workshop Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:19:13 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 1 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4979 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4979 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4979 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4832-need-to-tighten-this-one-up.-suggestions http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4832-need-to-tighten-this-one-up.-suggestions I don't want to change the meaning, flavor, of this, but would like to sharpen it. Would a title change and sharper imagery do it? Feedback, if you would be so generous and kind, OOOOO XXXXX EmilyRose Poetry Workshop Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:47:58 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 5 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4832 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4832 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4832 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3217-workshop-anyone http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3217-workshop-anyone Anyone want to do regular poetry workshops?  Now that I live in the middle of nowhere, and literacy is an option around here -- I really need honest and constructive input for my writing.  I really miss having a regular workshop to work on my own work and help others with theirs.  All the other poetry sites I've found are either way too 'Love and Fluff', or they're something like Alsop Review, which I'm not sure I'm ready for yet.  I like the people I've come to know and trust on DMV and now here, I just need something more intense than comments. ... more TriOak Poetry Workshop Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:57:33 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 7 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3217 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3217 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3217 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4575-i-need-help. http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4575-i-need-help. Valuable input please! I'm feeling like trashing it, but i need to know if it's salvagable Jasmine Mann Poetry Workshop Thu, 31 May 2007 15:24:28 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 0 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4575 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4575 http://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4575