Kylan

april 27 portrait of the marquis de sade in his garden you split them open – dissected until they are most revealed and all of the secrets have been removed, ...

april 26 southern gothic into the alabama lowlands where the heat seizes like an engine and the byway poppies resuscitate mouth-to-mouth, gasping, revived slowly by smelling-salt honeybees, like corse

april 25 columbine, columbine the night-bred mushrooms emerge in the moonlight after a solstice of silence, white and glistening and looked upon by the moon like bathsheba on her rooftop. ...

april 24 fishers of men islands emerging from the syllabled waves like knuckles, and the sail hanging limp and slack, like the milkless breasts of an aging women. you show ...

I like the first one better -- it was more fun to read. When the author is having fun, so is the reader...usually. :P Note: written purely for fun, and ...

april 23 i hid in the grapevines, or, kerouacking boles of cotton in their milkchinned litters twitch by as we drive down the interstate in your rattly chevy truck, beneath ...

Based on paintings by John Waterhouse. -- april 22 waterhouse I - boreas hot august clouds darken like bruised market fruit, and the low plains slump, shantytowns of lidded blossoms ...

Good poem! I see some parallels to "Lyrids" in it, but it's still a good, solid topic -- one that I revert to often. I liked the use of combined, ...

april 21 lyrids, or, an ode to april showers it is a day that you wear barefoot, a day that hangs from your shoulders as a sundress. it is late ...

Tough day...not much of a poem. april 20 peach jam and the skins on the old peaches sag already with double chins of plush – we split them open where ...

Haven't looked into her personally, but I've heard from several YWSers that she's legitimate. Network, network, network -- I guess editors are turning into ambulance chasers of sorts. :P -Kylan

Hey, thanks Navita, Demsy, and Kamas -- Navita > I wasn't necessarily trying to make it funny, per se, or laugh out loud hilarious, but I was trying to make ...

Hey Jas, 19 I like your opening line. It's so dry and compelling. You continue on with an interesting poem -- I enjoy the image of the broken lamp and ...

Hmm. I kind of like your most recent. It reminds me of a poem I wrote last NaPo, except, considerably less dark and less Sylvia Plath-esque. I love your final ...

Each of these are written for a Van Gogh painting of the same name. april 19 van gogh's ear I. starry night over the rhone the stars tonight are gentle ...