Tag: poem

It has depths, man.  I mean, I wouldn’t be ashamed to have written it.  “The Tiger’s” got all the narrative simplicity of an icepick and it flows well off the spoken tongue. I mean, I can see it all. The tiger. The screaming people.  The child, standing off to one corner, in the middle of the greatest moment of his young life.

…I think about how good this poem is at least twice a day. pic.twitter.com/AhjH2S26yl

— kosi (@notkosi) February 11, 2018

Of course, the tiger’s about to eat the bloodthirsty little rotter, but sometimes a poem’s about the interaction between you and the poet.

I’m putting together a double-acrostic eight-line poem (rhymed couplets) with full internal rhyme, and it’s actually proving to be a bit harder than I expected.  The last line is proving recalcitrant.  I may be free again after lunch.

[UPDATE: Wow, I am so out of practice.  That took forever.]