Fifteen-minute Poems, Volume One
3 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Tuesday, October 16 at Tuesday, October 16, 2007.
Give Megan and I a fine Zamalek balcony, wireless internet pilfered from a nearby franchise coffee house and the inspiration that only the discovery of a new genius can provide (thank you, E.E Cummings) and the result is the fifteen-minute poetry challenge: Write something decent in a quarter-hour burst. Megan blew me out of the water in this challenge; her bittersweet, steamy little burst of disappointed nostalgia is frigging phenomenal - check it out here. My effort is below.
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I'd love to hear you reading this poem, Mr Gara :) i think it's very you, this poem!
Hey mate, here's my shot at the 15 minute challenge.
How many passed unknown before? Written some eons ago, like water flow? Skimmed beyond reach, and danced along riverbed to waterfall downstream?
Legions more lie broken, dashed to half-rhymes, stripped of frame and feeling, 'til found fathomless in pool below.
And here, in overflow and undertow half words pour forth until, on this new riverbank a younger child sits still. He waits in silence, fishing forgotten feelings, then weaves a messy memory and the cycle is complete.
also- both yours and megans are uber quality work! The lack of time to go back over and push things into form and flow is really tough.. a zamalek balconey sounds like the perfect place for impromptu poetic meanderings..
peace