zumpoems

Many of today’s best writing is not found in books or magazines but out on the blogosphere.

Here are some particularly good articles and/or posts I recommend both for content and the quality of writing.

Newest Entries

Ladder

Christmas 

A Leaf in the Wind

Sky Raft Wanderer

Oncoming Rains

Dissolution

Entwining

Perception

Espial

Conflict on a Plate, or Food Nemeses 

On the road with Goethe and his Erlking

Locked by a Stalker

Flies

Previously Added

Race and Racism [While race is an invented concept, racism is not]

Sex will save your relationship

If I Were Blind

Like California

Gap

When Lazarus Died

Cockroach Poem

False Hope

Paper Airplane

Captain and Mother Too

The darker me [Good use of meter in this poem: note the shift from iambic to emphasize “Where I can let my demons play.” Then back to iambic for one line and then: “I heard your whisper, granted your wish” and then later “That I’m not normal, I’m not quite right” (real shift) with shortening of lines: (5,4=9;5,4=9;4,4=8;2[welcome],5=7)]

Memory Stick (A Trick of the Tongue)>

Legacy of Ashes (A training Manual)

Diamond Beauty

She’s A Saint

Frozen Violets

On Returning

Autumn (2)

Frozen

One Fall

Dying to Fly [Excellent command of rhymes and meter]

Aeternitas circumnavigates the inner landscape

Winter Wanda

The Breath of Spring

Jacaranda  [Great deployment of meter]

Blue Collar Twister

A little piece of ice

Red  [Notice how poem inverts about middle stanza and use of meter]

Pond Sililoquys

It’s Anyone’s Call