R.K. Cowles's Blog, page 5

Death on a Bicycle

                                     

'Death on a Bicycle happens to have enough poems from each of bicycling poetry and death poetry that adds up to 51 poems that I have decided to have in all books to honor my grandparents because there are 52 cards in a deck. It worked out that I decided for that 52cd poem that I titled "The Grim Reaper on a Bicycle', It also includes 'I Bike', 'First bike Ride', 'One Occurance Shared', 'Marshall Walter 'Major' Taylor', 'The Bicycling Commandments' 'A Rustic Journey', 'Justifiable Murder', 'Rejuvinate', 'Relief #5', 'Suggestion to Death', 'Death Encounters', 'Through the Eyes of Rachel Corrie', 'This Loss', 'Unneccesary Deaths' and 37 other poetic gems.

Homespun

                                   

' Homespun' has poetry of people, places, things, events and occurances that has happened to me in the area that I lived and close by. Poems include ' While She Whips My Chai', ' Gisella', 'The Cirinos', ' The Cirinos II', 'Idled Thoughts', 'Is It Me', 'Farewell Our Lovely Hostess', 'Clueless' , 'Coincidentail Omen', '$5', ' The Flaming-Maned Poet', '$3 or $200', 'Our Home', 'Red Fox Books', and several other poetry.                 

Slang Poetry Volume I

                               

These poetry lit an idea when I attended a themed Roaring '20s party. I had went to the art organization A.P.E. [Art In The Public Eye] This includes 11 medium-long 1920 slang poems that include 'My Plumming', 'Hotsy-Totsy', 'Snake Toenails', 'Chicago', 'Edisoned', ' Sweet Patootie' and 12 short 1920 slang poems that include 'Spanking Good Time', 'Strike Me Dead', 'Confined Necking', 'Getting Soaked to the Gullets'. And two of the shorts are tongue twisters. It also includes 6 medium-long 1930 slang poems that include 'SideShow alley', Michigan Bankroll', 'Belutha Hatchie' and 6 short 1930 slang poems that include 'Bananas', 'Smooth Leather-Clad Kitten', 'Keep It In Your Pich'. Also it includes 6 medium-long 1940 poems that include 'The day the Eagle Shits', 'Not Much of a Megillah',  and 2 short 1940 poems. rounding it out is 8 Old West slang poems that include 'Stringing a Whizzer on a Brace', 'Whiskey' that has numerous words and phrases about whiskey 'California' and 'Mistress' and 1 short Old West poem. Hopefully I am able to scrape up some musicians that can play dixieland/rag and several other musical genres from these eras to back me up while reading and record the occurance for a CD.

Expressing Art Through Poetry

                            

These poems are my thoughts of what my abstract photos look like. There are 34 poems of mine and 18 art from other artists from my area[ upstate New York in the Adirondacks]. mine include 'Blurred Curviture', 'Luminated Kisses', 'The Coming of Togetherness', 'Effusive Fulmination', ' Chasing Shadows', 'Dizziness', 'Swarm of Botched Retrospective Sentiment', 'The Dance', 'Justified Rest' and 25 others. Other artist art poems are 'Exfliltrate Restraint ', ' Reching ', 'When the Trumpet Blares', A Sunshine of Vividness Caresses the Visionless', 'Stereo-typical Lies', 'Their Light', 'Not Their Own', ' Twin Embrass', 'Avoiding Collision' and 9 other poems.

Crossword Poems

                    

This poem is 52 poems of possibly the most non-sensical poetry I have ever written. Although several poems has some parts that does make some sense. These may seem I was tripping or high at the time, although I was not. These poems began when I do crossword puzzles and either come across a word not used much amongst my friends while I talk to them and forget it while writing poetry or a word I do not I have not used it in a poem yet. One crossword puzzle had several words instead of one that I would like to use in a poem. I had the idea to use all the answers in the puzzle and create a poem with all the words. At first I thought I could not create such a thing, because it would not make any sense. Later on while doing the color series I came across the basic crayon names. I had thought to use two or three of the names in line of a poem titled 'Crayons' which rekindled my idea of these crossword poems. While spending extra time on these poems I could make it have some sense. some of them include 'Afternoon Nightmare' 'The Alibi' ' This is Cooking ? ' ,' Ether and Sambuca Soaked Sno-Cone' ,' A Dream of Oddness', 'The Sun Glares on the Obscure', 'Premium Gas and Pentium Chips' , 'Tick-Covered Awls', 'A Slow Witted Emu has an Idea', 'The Jeckyl and Hyde Concept' and 42 other crossword poems. They are more interesting as the title suggests.

Tints, Tones and Hues Volume III

                   

' Tints, Tones and Hues Volume III ' is the third volume that includes 34 left-over color poems from the series that includes 5 poems about being original and naming your child some out of ordinary names of color, 'Chesstnut ', 'Cosmic Latte', 'Atomic Tangarine' , 'Walnut and Maple', 'Shocking Pink ', 'Color Not Yet Been Named ', 'Possible Tea Experiment ' a new color name I made up 'Zeblarzetica ' 21 new poems and 18 of the best from Volume I and Volume II[ 9 poems each from both volumes]

Tints, Tones and Hues Volume II

                           

' Tints, Tones and Hues Volume II ' is the second poetry book about colors. This includes another group of fictional colors like the first volume. also included here are ' Negative', 'Decolorize', 'Colors of Distruction', 'Decompose', 'B & W, Red All Over', 'Crayons', 'This is Life', 'Musical Tones'  and 39 other poems rounding it out.

Tints, Tones and Hues Volume I

                    

' Tints, Tones and Hues Volume I' is this first poetry book I published on Lulu.com . It includes some of the best color name poems, while Volume II has the better poems about colors, not a perticular color. This book includes ' Black I',  ' Arsenic', ' White I', 'A Shameless Endeavor to Inscribe a Poem to this Poetry Anthology ' , 'Psychedelic ', ' Papaya Whip', 'Seashell ', ' Winter's Percipitation', 'Colors of Life', 5 colors of fiction and 38 other gems. 52 poems in total like any other poetry collection by the poet.

 

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