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June 27, 2013
Homespun Poems: Explainations
Homespun Poems- These poems are of the area where I live. They are of people, places, things, incidences, etc.
People- This section begins with two poems about my grandparents. First about them teaching me card games the second is about reminiscing of them.
Second set of poetry of this section is of a vocalist in the area. Two poems: first of her being my second favorite vocalist and a concert I experienced where she sang with 3 other female vocalists in the area. The second started out me writing about audiences this part of history of jazz will applaud during the performance while the musicians jam. During this time another musician has started their solo and they are missing the first few notes [8-12 seconds]. When I listen to the early jazz [40s, 50s and early 60s] the audience wait until the end to applaud. So I took a genre like opera and explain why anyone can’t disrespect them in the middle of the performance. I decide to find a reason for me to leave a performance. Until I realize she is a classical/operatic vocalist, which means I would be disrespecting her. I did not to do that in case I would not get to experience her performance again. I would probably would be kicked out because upset with the poem. It eventually ended up a humorous poem instead of a serious poem.
Next are five poems of poets of the area. First is of William Bronk and how there was not a big deal of the area where I did not know of his existence. Second is a respond to another poet in the area. Third is of a poet using fin to finish her poems. And a play on words of 1930s slang of $5. Last is of a poet and her poetry.
Next set of poetry is two poems of the best couple in business in the area that owns a wine store.
Another set of two poems of a hostess that hosted an open mic in the area. First of her hosting and leaving to go to Albany, N.Y. And a poem of her return to a jazz club to perform there.
Last is a poem of the best business owner in the area and how she makes living more enjoyable.
Places- First two poems are about the longest running coffee house in the country, Caffe Lena of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. First is of its open mic, the second is the place in general and the atmosphere.
The next seven poems is of a jazz club in Glens Falls, N.Y. First two is Friday nights and the house band. Next is a poem of me attempting to get an idea for a poem. Next two is of me deciding let go and just heed the music and to relax my brain from writing anything. Last two is of incident there. Both are different interpretations of it.
Next three is of the Adirondacks itself. First is of bicycling through it. Second is of the Adirondacks and its beauty. Third is something that also appeared in one of the books in the color series.
Next is another pub/bar that also has live jazz.
Next is of one for the Farmer’s markets in the area.
Next is of my childhood home that burned down couple years back. I wasn’t near there when it caught on fire, in case you were wondering what happened to it. This is what the poem about, questions of it.
Next is of the 18th & 19th century cemeteries.
Next four is of childhood. First two of a book/journal that my mother kept with some things of my childhood. The third is of my first bike ride. Some of it may not be true but some are. Last of my childhood is of little league and what happens when you are left in left field.
Music- First six poems is a poem came from listening to local musicians, all the music are originals. First four is of a classical piece that has four parts, hence four poems. Fifth another classical and both are pianists. This one reminded me of someone running. Last is of an acoustic guitarist.
Next two is of an incident of me listening to a band live. Both poems two different ideas that came from it.
Last is of open mics in the area.
Tea- Three poems about teas around the area. First two are of a tea place in Glens Falls. Last is of a tea in Albany, N.Y. All three I use names of teas for the titles.
The Rest- The first is a road trip, raven, cemetery, also appears in ‘Death on a Bicycle’
Next is what usually happens on buses around here. Couple more bicycling poems and couple other poems.
June 25, 2013
Color Series Poems: Defining Each Poem
Fictional Colors- 'Darker' 'Black III' 'Squant' 'A Colour That is Out There' 'Infa-Red II' are all in the 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume I' they are fictional colors manly from novels and graphic novels.They are colors named fulgin, squant and unknown from other universes and/or colors only seen by gnomes and other characters. In 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume II' 'Ultra-Violet' 'Octarian' 'Blue II' 'Grue and Bleen' 'Optic White' there are the other five fictional colors. Two of the poems consist of two colors, both of which switches from to another, another observed by only cats and wizards.One is named hooloovoo and one is origins unknown. In volume III there is a poem 'Color Not Yet Been Named' in which a color that can not be identified. So later in the anthology there is a poem I had created a name for it, because I could not find a color that begins with the letter Z. Also I had created a word that rhymes with the color Orange that the definition is a word hard to rhyme.
Crayons- Three poems with color crayons. One is the basic crayon colors, and two poems of special crayon series.In all three are in the 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume II'.
Actual Color Names- The colors are black, arsenic, red, blue, emerald, green, malachite, butterscotch, gold, tomato, gray, papaya whip, tomato, cream, fuchsia, seashell,yellow, tan, harlequin,silver, white in volume I. Ruby, olive, purple, carnation, copper, bronze, azure, brown, blonde, champagne, pink, lavender, magenta,sepia in volume II. Turquoise, atomic tangarine, asparagus,brick, walnut, maple, magic mint, vegas gold, chestnut, gamboge, cosmic latte in volume III. Some of the poems are about the colors yet some even though about other things they are associated with, like drinks, fruit/vegetables, metals,etc.
Changes- Some are about colors that are changing like, 'Decieving Colors' 'Love's Discolorment' 'Change of Colors' 'Psychedelic' 'Infa-Red' ' in volume I and 'Negative' 'Decolorize' in volume II and 'A Possible Tea Experience' 'Colors of Autumn' 'Alters a Color' 'Tisane'
Baby Names- In volume III certain colors I could not have a feeling of what I could create with, but they sounded pretty good for names for babies. So I wrote five poems to encourage some new parents with some unique names to call their newborn for creativeness.
Colors/Moods- I have a few poems about what colors are on moods. As if they are either, happy, sad or any other kinds of moods, not necessarily naming the actual colors. 'Love's Discolorment' 'Story of My Life' 'The Yard' 'Colors of Life' 'Colors of Destruction' 'Cream' 'Rust'
Abstract Art- I also have poems about my abstract photographs and other artists' artworks. Some of it mentions colors, the mixing, the blending and how it creates a certain feel or look to the art. These poems also appears in the book "Expressing Art Through Poetry'. Volume II includes 'Intermediate Ideation' 'Decompose' 'The Coming of Togetherness' 'Effusive Fulmination' 'When the Trumpet Blares' volume III includes 'A Sunshine of Vividness Caressing the Visionless' none in volume I.
MIXED of other things - other poems include a poem I just added a color to add to the series a color poem was not meant to end up here, a few poems with the phrase black and white, poems with several colors, a flipside to a kids saying[sticks and stones], poems about different meaning colors can be given an effect on something, a poet with red-hair, crossword and jumbled poems that a color appears in it, and other hidden treats.
June 24, 2013
Slang Poetry Volume I: Defining Each Poem
1920s
MY Plumming -This poem starts out in a night club with musicians , I being one of them sitting at the bar waiting to get ready to jam.It explains some of the characters in it, musicians and the listeners. It gives detail of some of the characters doings and what they do and what they are up to
Hotsy Totsy -This poem starts out with me drinking in a speakeasy getting ready to go, and before I go I head to the bathroom. During this time I run into different characters. Each one with different stories and me recollecting others.
My First Rub -This poem starts off me getting ready for a high school dance, getting there and wind up sneaking out for a smoke and explaining incidents that happen to the last dance and walking in a darken room with a few couples kissing and me and my date leaving.
A Java and Couple of Sinker -This poem starts off with me checking to see if I have enough cash to get me a morning coffee and donut. Then bumping into characters and some stories on the way there on the streets. Then finally getting there only to find out it is a hideout of gangsters and end up in a crossfire with the police.
A Corn Shredder at a Palace Full of Tarantula Juice -This poem is another dance,except it is at a dance hall instead of high school.Another or same girlfriend with detail of the characters throughout. This one is where we double date.
Petty Pantry -This poem is of me getting ready to go on a date to the movies. The characters are on the way there and those that show up. It never mentions what the movie is about, it never got that far.
Snake Toenails -This poem is about me going to the race course and bet the horses. Taking a car there and taking the wrong turn inside winding up at the stalls. then meeting up with a friend who knows more about the horses than I.
Chicago -This poem is me heading to work. Then get knocked out with something I drank. Then winding up at a hideout of the gangster in the poem 'A Java and Couple of Sinkers' Then the police again comes shooting up this place. As the gangsters is trying to get me to tell them about something I do not know anything about. This is titled 'Chicago' not because it is set in Chicago, because it may not be, but there are many slang that was used here with Chicago in them.
Edisoned -This poem follows 'Chicago' because now I wind up at the police station being interogated as if I was one of the gangsters in the hideout that got away. boy am I having bad luck.
Sweet Patootie -This poem is of me getting out of my apartment and go through the streets and ending up at a cafe with the counter lady that is pretty, hence the poem's title. And details of the characters that I meet/see on the way and their stories.
A Trip for Biscuits -This poem is me getting ready to head to another town on the train to make it to a job interview. Alot of characters, some of their stories and some of the happeings going on on the way.
Spanking Good Time -This is a short poem on the kinky side.
Face to Face -Another short about conversations.
The Big One -Third short about death.
Strike Me Dead -another short about drunkedness.
Confined Necking -another short about making out in a small back seat.
A Gangster's Reprisal -sixth short of the 1920s of a gangster finding out a rat and his revenge.
A Mistaken Identity -Being interogated because the police think you are someone you are not.Another short.
Tongue Twisting 1920 Slang # 1- Tongue twister with the letter F.A flapper and her love life.first of four tongue twisting slang poems.One of two tongue twister's from the 1920s.
UnderGlass -Being caught and thrown in jail.short poem.
Typical- short poem about having a good woman at home and you should treat her good instead of going out with prostitutes.
Getting Soaked to the Gullets -second short poem about drunkedness.
Tongue Twisting 1920 Slang # 2 -second short tongue twister of the 1920s about checking out a gorgeous woman.
1930s
Side Show Alley -first of the 1930s long/medium poems.This is about a carnival, the people that runs it and the people attending it. Stories about the characters and other carnivals that has past by the town.
Michigan Bankroll -has nothing to do with the state of Michigan.This poem is about me getting ready to go to a poker game night.On the way there. And the first few hands. And the characters in the game.
Platinum Blonde Twist -another one about dancing. Except it is slang from the 1930s.
Dog Soup - a poem about going to the park for a picnic and the characters that I come across.
Licking the Chops - another poem about musicians hanging around jamming at a club. this include the hepster's dictionary by Cab Calloway from the 1930s.
Belutha Hatchie - radio from the 1930s this poem is about and the wacky things happening on and off the air.
Throw a Bone - about two homeless persons. first short of the 1930s.
Bananas - a short poem using slang of the 1930s with animals or anything pertaining to animals, not necessary about animals.
Smooth Leather Clad Kitten -another short poem of kinkiness.
Swing or Hot Squat -about how a criminal is going to be executed, either hanged or electric chair. Another short poem of the 1930s.
Keep it in Your Pilch -about making out in public in broad daylight.
Home Cooking -about a man getting in a relationship too quickly than he should and the consequences of it. last short of the 1930s.
1940s
The Day the Eagle Shits -about getting my paycheck and what is planned to spend it on and all the characters and a few of their stories that I come across.
At the Big House - me at a restaraunt contemplating to leave or stay and when I begin to leave a few friends come and things start.
Cut a Rug on the Beam - another slang about dancing, this one is set in the 1940s
Not Much of a Megilah - me taking a walk on the streets and things happens all around.
Lounging on the Avenue -Sitting on the stoop watching the going ons during one day in the 1940s.
A Mellow Man Greasing At a Divine Diner -eating at a diner and some going ons around me and some stories of some of the characters I encounter.
Embarassing Screw Up - not wanting to awake my date try to get dress in the dark, just guess what I wound up wearing? 1 of 2 short poems.
Active Duty for an Active Crop - a short poem about guys trying to drag me to a club of prostitutes to hook me up as if I cannot get one by myself.
Old West
Stringing a Whizzer on a Brace - about on the trail getting up in the morning getting ready to leave and remenincing tales of each of the other fellas I was with and other happenings.
A Chuck Line Rider at a Pansaje - people at a big meal outside underneath the sky, and the characters surrounding the table and some of their stories.
A Buck Nun Engaged in a Siesta Within a Crumb Incubator in Texas -a poem of waht I was and what I have become out in old west. My stories.
Whiskey -with so many different slang for whiskey I created a poem about the characters in a salloon, what they name it and some of their stories.
A Narrow Escape from an Iron Horse -a woman waiting for a train checking out what happenings around her surroundings and how she has to avoid someone.
Muddy Grubs Loaded to the Gun Whales Rustling Up Corral Dust -a drama troup and their stories as they take a tour through the old west.
California -same as the 1920s poem 'Chicago' and the 1930s 'Michigan Bankroll' nothing really about California except for I am heading there. Only slang with the word California in it.
Mistress -another kinky poem of slang, except for this one is a long instead of a short one.
Comb - last poem of this anthology. all about combs or a slang may sound that it would be.
June 15, 2013
June 1, 2013
Photo Books
This is my first photography book published on Lulu.com For more information go here. A 116 pages of color and black & white photography of abstract photography. Some are close-ups, camera movement, reflections, etc.
Final Edit
All 10 of my books that appear on Lulu.com are now been finalized in the final edit. you can find them by clicking this. They are also ready to be purchased in EBook format.
April 26, 2013
Grandfather and Crosswords
March 28, 2013
The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 5
' The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 5' is the poetry anthology of mine published on Lulu.com that includes the most poems. All the other poems has 52 on the nose. This book has 5 sections with 52 poems each, totaling 260 poems. The first part includes 'esreveR-nI', 'The Lines Has Been Drawn', 'Shots Fired', 'An Old, Scratched, Blemished Poem', Confusion of Three Minds', 'Warning'[that appears on the back cover of the book], 'Hopping Mad', 'My Habit', 'A Rediculous Scavanger Hunt List', 'Babysitters Lament', 'Priceless #1', 'Poetry Sings' and 40 other poems. Part II includes 'Secret', 'None', 'Nothing', 'Uncle Sam Wants', 'Gone Too Far', 'The More Rational Response to the Poem 'Gone Too Far' ', 'Something New', 'Drunk on Poetry', 'Politacally Correct', 'Cruel, Cruel World', 'Foolish Accidents', 'Talent', 'Wish' and 38 other poems. Part 3 consists of the poems 'Tricker Treaters', 'Where We Are......' [an 139 word title], 'Game Over', 'Corruption', 'America's Gods', 'The Future', 'A Cheapskates Generosity', 'Not a Bit Curious', 'Political Symbols' and 43 other poems. The part 4 consists of 'A Poet Disorientated at an Open Mic', 'Alternative to a Tree', 'Tea Hog', ''Beat Down', 'Consequential Act' and 46 other poems. And finally the 5th part that contains the poems 'We There' [that is throughhout the part], 'Easily Excited', 'Aloha', three odes, 'Ode to the Theremin', 'Ode to the Sitar', 'Ode to Who Knows What', 'What am I Doing on a Golf Course With a Baseball Bat', 'Improvise', Three 'Relief' poems, #1,#2 and #3, 'Tea Tasting', 'Every Thirty Minutes', 'The Runaround', 'Tongue Twister', 'Extreme', 'Ludicrous', 'Distraught' and 34 other poems.
To Suckle the Senses of Nursery Rhyme Reconstructions
' To Suckle the Senses of Nursery Rhyme Reconstructions' is of 36 written poetry considered by a few of my poet friends to be my best. Also included is flip-sides of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Poems include 'To Suckle the Senses', 'Hazerdous Refuse', 'Twelve', 'Drifting Obliviously', 'Amphigory', 'Unrestricted Spaciously', 'Idling', 'Tornado', 'Expressionless Sun Rising upon a Man-Made universe', 'Fantasy', 'T.G.I.F.', 'Tongue Twisted Vowles' and 40 other poems.
Jumbled Bourbon
These poems are another set of two different types in one poems. This is the second one by the way. There is a third. This includes 40 Jumbled poems and 12 bourbon poems. This also includes two mixed drinks created by me. The first one Jumbled Bourbon, the second Jumbled Bourbon #2.
