So with my longer project finally complete (yeah ok so I took like 2 years, things had to align) I feel the need to do something a bit more quick and not so grammatically focused. I always feel like poetry is an opportunity to approach writing with a free form. To me it can be abstract painting of writing and an entire picture is there although even if it is presented in pieces that don't seem to quite fit. So far I feel the break that this project is giving me is totally worth the time I am putting into this next book.
(*DISCLAIMER* The readings mentioned in the following paragraph are graphic. Please be warned these selections may not be to your taste before following the links. You have been kindly warned so enjoy.)
(*DISCLAIMER* The readings mentioned in the following paragraph are graphic. Please be warned these selections may not be to your taste before following the links. You have been kindly warned so enjoy.)
And that introduces today's topic: Erotic Poetry 101. My plan is over the next 30 days (I actually started about a week ago) write out a series of poems that touch on different arousing topics and subjects. Over this period I plan to invent and reinvent sexual moments and sexual content. I want the writing to present a new side to sex through poetry, no two being the same. As part of my exploration of this I am of course reading other erotic poems and oh my some of the one's I have read. Can You Make Me Cum is thus far leading the pack as one of my favorite new discoveries. This is being followed closely by Allen Ginsberg's Please, Master which, and I have already admitted my enjoyment of references to this topic, touches on a submissive situation. What I like about Ginsberg's poem in particular is the description. Each action is broken down into a single line, not muddled together in some long expressive statement, and the narrator is yearning to be dominated. Begging with the use of anaphora to be dominated, so hot.
In the end I am sure I have picked my next project well. As I prepare for my move across country a few poems here and there in between all the commotion will be a lot less stressful and will allow me to play around with the words in a way structured prose will not allow. Keep your ears to the ground, the plan is that this one should move a lot faster.
