Month: December 2013
I was reading on the blog of an artist how long they spend gazing before they take a photograph.And how long they spend editing or thinking about it before they post it.And therefore criticising people who take lots of photos and post them all quickly
And I truly wish everyone would spend such time before they post a letter or send an email to a friend..
Still,it’s just a case of the pot calling the kettle black!
Ahaaa
We English have a grating sense of numinousity or did I mean h umorosity?
Never mind the numen,think about us humans!
Sprechen Sie Freudsch?
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Poetry formatting
How to Prepare Poetry Manuscript Submissions
What are the manuscript guidelines for poetry submission, including chapbooks?
Here’s advice from the editors of Poet’s Market:
The guidelines are slightly different for poetry manuscripts than for fiction manuscripts. Following is a brief checklist for submitting either individual poems or a poetry manuscript.
For individual poems:
- Send only three to five poems at one time, positioning your best poems on top. Most editors don’t have time to read more than five poems and less than three doesn’t provide a sufficient sample of your work.
- Type one poem to a page, single-spaced with double-spacing between stanzas. (Haiku may be an exception here.) Leave at least a one-inch margin on all sides of the page.
- Include your name, address and telephone number in the upper left or right corner. The title of your poem should appear in all caps in initial caps about six lines underneath your address, centered or flush left. Begin the poem one line beneath the title.
For book manuscripts:
- First, when submitting a poetry collection to a book publisher, it is best to request guidelines since press requirements vary from a query letter with a few sample poems to the entire manuscript.
- When submitting an entire poetry manuscript, use a separate cover sheet for your name, address and telephone number. Center your book title and byline about halfway down the page. Then include your last name and page number in the top left margin of the first and each subsequent manuscript page.
- Again, type one poem to a page, single-spaced with double spacing between stanzas. Leave at least a 1-inch margin on all sides of the page.
- If a poem carries over to a second sheet, list your name in the top left margin. Underneath your name include a key word from the poem’s title, the page number and information on whether the lines at the top are a continuation of the same stanza or the start of a new one (e.g., continue stanza or begin new stanza).
For more submission tips, check out Poet’s Market.
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Kissing
Peace is all I need
The sea
Still life
On the beach
Peace from artificial social ways
I hate kissing because it’s meaningless
Like Mcdonald‘s burgers
And sentimental cards.
It’s a right men feel they have.
Like toddlers want French fries
And pink milk.
I think men don’t know how intrusive
Their smell is and their flesh
To someone who doesn’t love them.
And social kissing is so false.
When people gripe and snipe
When you’re not there.
So we’ll have to invent some new ways
Some new designs.
Or do I have to wear a plaque
“Trespassers will be persecuted“
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The wrong cliche
| I was wedded to slights so I asked for a divorce on the grounds of boredom. |
| Please reel with zip |
| I sent a fatal crow over to him with a message |
| I bent a mortal bow and fired at the unicorn as it flew awry |
| Deep nicks marred his chin.Why not grow a beard, I said.He cut my throat with hisses |
| You look so dear .yet still a fright.I am unsure how you ravage it |
| He’s like diamond in the pigs’ trough |
| We dug for the moles and they are terribly rude.No gratitude at all. |
| I dig myself into a hole in my mattress to sleep.It’s india rubber |
| Drip your flow into the water dolorosa to augment it |
| Is dirt cheap? |
| What is the wrong entry? |
| Do as i pray and not as i say |
| Do birds fry eggs? |
| He said do or die so I dyed my inside out |
| Flu is your crutch? |
| Give anew unto others |
| I shall dry William Blake |
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Do you feel me when I feel you? Who is the real me |
| Life does my heart in good |
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Problem page
Dear Mabel,I have ten spirits following my blog but no people.Am I doing something wrong?
Dear Puzzled.
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Why not just say it’s all over me?
Literati
is a name
we gave to clever
people who
talk
too
much and think they know all
about literature
and twitterature
and are conceited
stuck up
and think they own
the world of words
but really it’s the
common people who invented language
and stories and poems
who talked the world into bing
I beg your pardon
I never say
shiterati
even as a joke
I am utterly
affronted by your conjunction
and offended by your defensiveness
and unwillingness
to admit
even the Pope
likes vulgar jokes
so who are you
anyway?
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On Not Being Able to Paint (without a frame)
“It is fascinating…to follow [her] attempts to rid herself of the obstacles which prevent her painting”
– Anna Freud, 1950
Sarah brought me a book the night we were previewing her install: On Not Being Able to Paint. It’s a reflection on creativity from the 50s, by psychoanalyst Marion Milner. I appreciated the timing: about to go public with her first big foray outside painting proper, she produced a treatise about what it means to not paint.
So far, I’ve read only the introduction the book, which Sigmund’s daughter Anna Freud – an important psychoanalyst in her own right – contributed. Analogizing the therapeutic situation and the painter’s context, Freud notes that both psychological and creative breakthroughs require dedicated spaces for uninhibited work.
The residency attempts to proffer such a space, and within that space, Sarah made another one. Within the venue, she delineated a corner for her installation…
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My boyfriend is black from the dead : and other unlikely notions
Homer was a barrier to progress.Sorry,he was a barrister for the homeless
I ban heart breakers from any rights
My boyfriend came back from the dead as God said he’s not cooked properly yet.I can’t believe it!He was simmering with rage for days.
He gave me a crap handed compliment.In briefs and his own best vest,he insulted me to my face and about my face!Why can’t he look down?
He will be black in a sec in the old coal miners ballroom
Should one put the horse onto the saddle?
Oh,back it up and leap on
My mum was a back seat driver;she had long arms and long sight,you see.I don’t see so I drive from the front…
I said, are you a backstabber.and he stabbed me in the chest but only with a drawing pin.
And what a draw it was…women love to tend to me.God may know why.I am not handsome but I have that special,Je ne baise moi!Well the French never wash and look at them…like rabbits.
Now children, we are back to squaring one again.It’s the only number equal to its own square and it has two square roots.It sounds like my husband,if you catch my implicit meaning,Now implicit functions,that is a deep topic in higher mathematics.. or should we say,lower mathematics as we are mixing the similes too much not to mention the cliches and the metaphors.It’s like Greek to me.Thank God I know no Hebrew…it would be such a strain on my brain.
Backs to the drawing boards.the artists fought off the invading poets to no avail.Now all the pictures have titles…… just like the Royal family.What a joy.
Back to the salty pines on Holkham Beach…. a good place to get lost and even meet the Queen
What is a backhanded compliment for? Answer briefly and fully without loosing in a thesaurus… not that you common people have them….THUD.Another right wing teacher is struck down by God…. or rather it was a catapult with a brick but I saw they used them in the Bible so it’s ethically acceptable I believe.Yes,I do
Ah come off? Now come on.Alot of the Bible is vicious….cutting off men’ s hair…Why di9d Samson have long hair… no=one I know around here does.Beards,yes.Hair…. not much.
And even beards have drawbacks.Washing them is a burden…could you have a false one like a wig?Here’s where I may have got a bright idea!
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| Cliché | Country | |
| Gadzooks! | United States | |
| Game is on the line, The | United States | |
| Gang bang | United States | |
| Gang bangers | United States | |
| Garlic milkshake | United States | |
| Get (Start) the ball rolling | United States | |
| Get a life | United States | |
| Get a room | |
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| Get a word in edgewise | |
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| Get all worked up | United States | |
| Get an earful, To | United States | |
| Get back up on the horse | ||
| Get cleaned out, To | United States | |
| Get crushed, To | United States | |
| Get down, To | United States | |
| Get it, To | United States | |
| Get lost | United States | |
| Get my message? | United States | |
| Get off, To | ||
| Get out of Dodge | United States | |
| Get out of here | United States | |
| Get out of my hair | ||
| Get over the hump | United States | |
| Get the hook, To | ||
| Get to the bottom of it | United States | |
| Get up off the mat, To | United States | |
| Get with the program | United States | |
| Get your arms around it | United States | |
| Get your ducks in a row | United States | |
| Get your feet wet |
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Crossing the bridge
Stepping onto that fragile bridge
Which swayed in the breeze,
Stepping onto that fragile bridge
Was a difficult moment
Though I could see you far away.
As we traveled,sometimes we walked,
Sometimes we walked too fast,
Or without paying due attention
To the winds that blew across the water.
Sometimes I felt afraid I would fall
As the bridge swayed too much over
The dark sea.Or you might fall or turn back.
Sometimes we stopped walking and stood waiting
As if some portent would appear
To tell us what to do.
Still, we continued, with trust growing
After each difficulty…
All at once, you were near me,
And I recognised your face..
That light in your eyes
And your hands holding the ropes..
So we stood there,over the churning waters,
And all I wanted to do was to smile.
I wanted to smile.And I’m still smiling
Despite all the strains and trials…
And I see you are smiling too.
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Never say logic again.
My foreign students said I was too warm to be British,so turn off your heating now or face execution as a traitor.
What people forget is we Brits are a mixed race… then we have the nerve to call people,wogs,dagos and foreigners.we are all foreigners here apart from the Welsh.
Some students told me their dreams;s,anything to avoid algebra!
I personally found quantum theory helps to avoid emotional overspill…
and topology is useful for dressmakers
Dreams and love are all very well… if you are a millionaire.Till then keep on with figures,asymmetry and words.
Friends are no use unless you are a real person.Whatever she is.
Schizophrenia is to some extent cowardliness………….keep your feet on the ground and say straight out what you mean without entering into wordplay,fey ways,being a seer and seeing how life veers.It’s all absolute bullshit.Only not all bulls are male.
Some bulls are e-male.
Depression is mainly the result of being driven.So give up the chauffeur and take your time.
Some loose women are fast and vice versa.Isn’t logic trying?
I was so thin when I began lecturing I got half fare on the bus and I was 25.So studying keeps you young.Never say,Dirac,again.
I was so thin then I bought children’s clothes but now I am twice the size.Then they said I might have TB,now they say I could get diabetes.Take your pick……there’s something in me that will never take the middle way.My middle gets in the way.
We all eat too much considering how little we do.Bring back the scrubbing board,brush and hard green soap.But if I eat less I faint…. what an ‘orrible feeling as your vision shrinks to a pinpoint and you sweat all over but more on the top of the head…. and you throw yourself onto the floor… or the ceiling.
Once we were having a meal with another couple…with one of those heated plate things on the table.I passed out and for years they talked about it.They divorced later and blamed me!Still,I gave them something to talk about so maybe I helped.
If you get disturbed stop introspecting and sweep the floor or the pavement.Do useful things with your hands and help others.Be polite even if you think they are the Devil
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Why there are ten commandments
When Moses climbed the mountain
And he got to the top,
God was waiting for him,
He didn’t say a lot.
He said, Take my commandments
They are written on this stone,
I have only fifty,
Or was it fifty one?
Moses was very worried
~about the human race.
Fifty one commandments
Would meet with strong distaste.
So he told God his troubles
And God thought long and hard.
He came back with the commandments
Written on a card.
How many have you got there?
Moses politely said?
I’ve got it down to ten, said God.
His eyes were very red.
So Moses took the postcard
And put it on his pad.
He said I’d better get back down.
Oh, and thank you Dad!
When Moses got to earth
He called his people near.
He produced his i Pad.
Look what I’ve got here!
I saw God on the mountain.
He gave me a few rules.
They’re easy to remember.
We are not moral fools.
How many of these rules
Has God given to you?
I got it down to ten.
Let’s see how we can do.
Ten is far too many,
Some of the people cried.
We don’t want these rules.
We hate to feel we’re tied.
But all games have their rules.
They’re what define the game.
If we had utter chaos
This loss would be a shame.
As pictures have their frames,
And lessons have strict times.
We need some good constructions,
Like poems need their rhymes.
So all his people heard him.
And they agreed to try.
They lived as best they could
Until they came to die.
But one part of this story
We will never know–
What were all those commandments
That Moses did not show?
And why did God give in
To Moses’ bargain plea?
Do not ask for Moses,
For Moses name is “ME
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I pass on a dot
<p class=”center”>Pass water on a dot?I can’t relieve you,my dear.You need a pot.
Do pass the fluck to me if you can beware to.You pig!I know your tart of man?be off.
He passed on the shit by letter.Uttering crap was his lust.He just couldn’t stand himself.Still you love them,you hate them;.it passes the flame.
He passed me with flying dolours;once a Catholic,always faintly guilty.In my case I truly passed out with flying colors.You see,the red knickers were half price?no-one else wore them.I don’t know why they were ever made, and no maid should have worn them.I was always out of the lurch of normality,if you grasp my scheming.I had a hare brain and no mind to speak to except my doll with no head? it fell off,unlike mine,that’s china for you.Potheads are a bad idea</p>
<p class=”center”>Please read under each line today
To take the path of least consistency is hard for mathematicians but post-Godel it’s just one more hurdle
Play as you go where?
His lips paid me such service,no-one since has matched his adroitness,yet he never knew my name?I was just one of a number of girl he loved in rotation; we were almost a constellation and definitely a consolation to each other united by hatred of the one we loved
Pray for the riper woman to be given a compliment
I just do not know how pray through the prose.
If he were not a man,I’d call him a bitch.</p>
<p class=”center”>He called me a deviant tart,if I recall nightly
Never wear pearls before wine is offered
Peel the onion with a running tap to stop your eyes running off
Can I put a pencil in your orifice?
They gave us a penny for each thought we had thunken.I remember it so mistily as I never knew thought before.I was an intellectual virgin at that time…9 am.Then they began coming</p>
How my heart sings 