Comments on: Nycticorax

By: James

James — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:56:06 +0000

angie, I agree. It was much harder than I thought it would be.

Lirone, I started with nycticorax and brouhaha as those are two of my favorite words in terms of sound.

Thanks very much, everyone.

By: Lirone

Lirone — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:23:03 +0000

It’s fascinating what happens when you take sense away… it seems it really made you play with the sounds of words. I love the “nycticorax nycticorax brouhahas” – the contrast in the sounds between the words and the feel of the repetition really works for me!

And I do like the idea of a typewriter scared of spiders! No idea why, but I do!

By: angie

angie — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:48:15 +0000

This was a hard prompt…takes a lot of thinking to say nothing, I suppose!

I notice–and I like–that a lot of your word choices SOUND like what they should mean, even though they don’t. Like “brouhahas behind my back” or “swings a question” and “her thin I thought.” Nice wordplaying.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:48:57 +0000

I must say this is pretty interesting. Made me wonder what the probably of a monkey banging on a typewriter and coming up with this poem is. Or a human, for that matter. *grin*

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:00:51 +0000

Cool!

By: Sweet Talking Guy..

Sweet Talking Guy.. — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:09:28 +0000

I like the way this reads down – A monkey banging etc. And the line: On a wire, freezing fire, spinning tire, unicycle riders flee. sounds like real poetry to me!!!