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Original poem reprinted online here:  "O Anchor" by Matthew Nienow Originally read: January 2, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Matthew Nienow So I did something that I usually don't do.  I don't bookmark the poems I read for this blog.  I read six poetry websites with daily poems, print the poems I like (or dislike extremely), then move on.  So when I googled "O Anchor" by Matthew Nienow to link to the original poem I found his website .  On his website this is the description of him I found interesting: Matthew lives in Port Townsend, WA with his wife, Elie, and their two sons, River and Pike. When he is not writing, he works on boats and other things made of wood.  This guy knows his boats and waterways.  Or at least has a passion for boating, and water.  So I'm going to start off with a little tangent: is writing a job or the hobby?  How much of those two aspects of a person's life intertwine?  I don't know the answer to...

Original poem reprinted online here: "A Prisoner of Things" by Alan Michael Parker Originally read: December 27, 2012 More information about the Poet: Alan Michael Parker The one thing I didn't write down in my notes was " anthropomorphism ." It's where things are given human attributes.  So the "things" here are given dialogue. The interesting thing about the poem is how the anthropomorphized  items have a "goal" and the speaker seems to be laying about. For example, the opening lines, "If only this novel were trashier: / if only the hour were true"  I think to believe the colon is used as a syntactical deductive (I don't know what colons are used for off the top of my head except the obvious) where there's a logical consequence.  If the novel was trashier then the hour would be true.  There's this waiting (maybe procrastination period). So the speaker projects goals onto things.  And with every goal there's so...