Let us look at an actual Baudelaire sonnet and see what makes it different from other sonnets? First, there is the rhyme pattern. ABAB ABAB CCD EED But form in itself is not enough to make this poem Modern. Let us look at the original French. What do you see […]
the new flowers of which I dream
Let us be honest; I do not have enough time in my amazingly short life to study every different type of sonnet ever crafted under the sun … and what a drab life that would be! Spring is here, the windows to this office are open, chirpy-birds are […]
Tim Lane will join poets Tiya Kunaiyi, Logic and Pete Vargas in honor of National Poetry Month at the Old Town Poetry Series on Wednesday, April 12, at 7:30 PM in the Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner Street in Lansing’s historic Old Town. The four featured poets will demonstrate what many of us already know to […]
I first fell in love with Hayao Miyazaki’s work when my brother Eli took me in L.A. to see Princess Mononoke on the big screen. From the opening credits, with the words: “in ancient times, the land lay covered in forests, where from ages long past, dwelt the spirits of the gods …” I […]
Up on stage let me dance by painted sun-
ribbon rivers. It is all a romance.
I prance through white fields, painted dun-ribbon
backdrop, my glance all green, lustful. This dance
is lust, is full. I, a boy bull, a fist
full of flesh, a lap full of tongue. Lewdly
we move to Bach, to Mozart, to foul Liszt.
But in Debussy’s […]