David W. Parsley Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT 50+ YEARS OF POETRY IV. A man and a woman pruning a blackbird could consider themselves One. . . . . . . . . . . . And the rose was A man and a blackbird . . . . . . . telling strumming ukulele lemmings . . the old old story. would denigrate and ask with all . . . . . . . . . . . Such fun it was. . . . . . . . I think I should start sincerity who is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . one too and why not. talking over there. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Narcissus in a convex . . . Nobody talks about I'm not kidding, we're . . . . . . mirror would . . . . . . . . . the night we changed just making a . . . . . . . . . . . . smell as sweet. . . . . . . . the mattress covers, mess of things. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and never ... more ... . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . oh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . more - hey! So not cool, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this isn't a raven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . over here, you know. more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If you yourself never . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nevermore Like the pallid bust . . . . . . . . . I prefer myself in . . . . . What was I saying? thing with filigree . . . . . . . . . portraiture, so, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . unless my stockings . . . . quoth Definitely more . . . . . . . . . . . catch a concave eye . . . . quoth . .. nevermore unpublished © David W. Parsley 2011 Re. poems of John Ashbery "The Ice Cream Wars" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/130/1#20592638/ "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror/ "litany" http://www.lichtensteiger.de/discontinuous_realities.html/ "three poems in three voices" could not find a satisfactory link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W. Parsley Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 My sympathies to anyone who attempts to post simultaneous voice type poetry here. The editor really struggles with insertion of multiple spaces or columns. I will let this be a lesson to me from the universe about the perils of parodying the work of John Ashberry... (Thanks for bearing with this process. Luckily we have a very responsive site administrator, who deleted the spurious entries!) - Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Ashberry's one of those guys you either love him or hate him. :)) A delve into the surreal. I take it you're coming back to number three. I couldn't find it, and the series seems to have gone from two to four. Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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