Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Friday, February 7, 2014

Talk-To-Text-To-Poetry (TTTTP)

I have discovered a new poetry design, new to me anyway. Like many others, I have been vexed many times by the lack of accuracy in the talk-to-text function of my smartphone. Let's just say, it's hardly ever functional. So in an effort to get some use out of the talk-to-text, I am now going to use it almost exclusively to create misheard poetry. I plan to try to document both what I say and what the phone hears. This may prove to be impossible if I continue in the stream of consciousness talking mode that I used for this initial foray. Here is the first of many talk-to-text-to-poems, hopefully.

Solid Thousand In the Morning 

So I'm down to the turnover, 
Solid thousand in the morning 
and the one wired around everything, 
so you compass encompassing 
you really party

The only word of that that I remember saying was 'encompassing'.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Kissing You In Art Deco Light

It's burned in bright,
Kissing you in art deco light.
A wonderful night.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Halloween Night

Goblins and ghosts
Halloween toasts
Children dressed up for scares

Spirits that float
No head over coat
Foolhardy boys taking dares

Tricks and/or treats
Dastardly feats
House to house with candy in tow

Don't stay out late
Don't try to tempt fate
Or the Gashlycrumb Tinies may show

Halloween night
If it's done right
Will come off without a care

Count the kids right
At the end of the night
To ensure that they are all there

If you come up short
Then make a report
For all the good it won't do

Call out the hounds
But they'll never be found
For the monsters all want treats, too

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

A Devout Wish

I breathed in.
I couldn’t get enough air.
I coughed through the hitch in my throat.

I tried again,
A deep breath that didn’t satisfy.
I hacked in rhythm to a steel drum beat.

A third time still.
I, my lungs to bursting, filled.
It came rushing out in an ineffectual breeze.

The birthday candles stayed lit.


-A poem dedicated to all those of my friends and family who have a birthday in July.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Uncommon People

Jacques Cousteau and Shazam
Whipped out their guns. BLAMITY! BLAM!
I wonder if God's ever said GODDAMN!
I knew the Pharoahs but Sam was a sham.

Friday, October 31, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

Y is for Yorick whose head was knocked in

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

W is for Winnie embedded in ice

X is for Xerxes devoured by mice

Monday, October 27, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

U is for Una who slipped down a drain

V is for Victor squashed under a train

Saturday, October 25, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

S is for Susan who perished of fits

T is for Titus who flew into bits

Thursday, October 23, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

Q is for Quentin who sank in a mire

R is for Rhoda consumed by a fire

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

O is for Olive run through with an awl

P is for Prue trampled flat in a brawl

Sunday, October 19, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

M is for Maud who was swept out to sea

N is for Neville who died of ennui

Friday, October 17, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

K is for Kate who was struck with an axe

L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

I is for Ida who drowned in a lake

J is for James who took lye by mistake

Monday, October 13, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

G is for George smothered under a rug

H is for Hector done in by a thug

Saturday, October 11, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

E is for Ernest who choked on a peach

F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech

Thursday, October 9, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

C is for Clara who wasted away

D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

A Gashlycrumb Tinies Halloween countdown

I've decided to post all the couplets from Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies in a celebration of creepiness. I'll post another one every couple of days on the way to Halloween.

Here's the first one:

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs

B is for Basil assaulted by bears

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Doctor Who Haikus

Sonic screwdriver
Fly me off in the Tardis
Squareness gun, what’s that?

Rose Tyler returns
The fuck is Sarah Jane Smith?
Torchwood fires

Monday, July 21, 2008

Rachel Haiku

Tattoo’s wild colors
Muted by your smile so bright
Would your heart was mine.