DDCPoetry

Poem found here:   "Sky Burial" by Ron Koertge A response through metaphor.  This poem utilizes many rhetorical techniques to support the metaphorical answer.  And, the focus is the metaphorical answer. The wind-up, and the rhetorical devices and techniques to lead up to the metaphorical answer are deceptively humane. But let's start with a question, "Q. You're Such a Disciplined Writer.  Were You Always That way?"  Note that this is a question that the speaker will answer but as a poem this is a construct the speaker creates.  This may be a personal response, but this poem concerns the construct of the "Disciplined Writer." And so the answer: The first stanza focuses on the time frame and sets up a scene for the exact moment -- that metaphorical answer, "When I was in graduate school, I worked part-time at a local / library." Then there's the mention of the regulars, "I learned to know the regulars who talked about living with p...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Fault" by Ron Koertge Originally read: July 1, 2013 More information about the Poet: Ron Koertge   In the first quatrain, the style starts out as a narrative, "In the airport bar, I tell my mother not to worry. / No one ever tripped and fell into the San Adreas / Fault."  Past me noted, "trying to calm with joke."  What the first couple of lines also does is set up a relationship between the son and mother where the roles are sort of reversed.  The son is the clam, reassuring one; meanwhile, the mother, "But as she dabs at her dry eyes, I remember / those old movies where the earth does open."  The mother is a little flustered, and although the reader can infer the reasons why she's flustered, the speaker uses the moment to explore representation behind the fear in "old movies." "There's always one blonde entomologist, four / deceitful explorer, and a pilot who's good looking"....