DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:   "Tas in March" by Edwin Brock Originally read: August 15, 2013 More information about the Poet:   Edwin Brock So the first stanza states what the poem will talk about.  However, note that the first stanza is a sestet versus the rest of the poem written in tercets.  What the first sestet does is set up the conflict -- the introduction of the speaker and the introduction of the actual "subject." "White on dark water, so stark / I leave my binoculars behind / and watch with bare red eyes." Here the speaker is introduced, but the focus here is on his vision.  Without the binoculars, there isn't necessarily a focus onto a specific thing, but there's an expansive outlier to this image, "two swans, taut with sexuality, / stretching their necks / alternately side by side."  The interpretation is already there at the beginning -- sexuality and note how close and intimate the image is together.  But since the ...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Five Ways to Kill a Man" by Edwin Brock Originally read: April 23, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Edwin Brock "Humorous -- reads like a recipe.  The list goes more absurd then the last being poignant"  This is how past me starts out, but there's the interplay of the humor which slightly turn cynical, but the focus is always a man in war which can branch off to society or ethics or what not -- no the indivudal -- the five ways to kill a man happens with each stanza. In the first stanza there's an allusion to crucifixion with the lines, "You can make him carry a plank of wood / to the top of a hill and nail him to it." And here is more of the "result" lines, here's the recipe, "you require a crowd of people / wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloak to dissect, a sponge, some vinegar, and one / man to hammer the nails home."  Note how this list is expansive at first t...