tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099734003400211309.post7221747931215412131..comments2020-09-03T03:35:24.694-07:00Comments on The Tiger in the Matchstick Box: The Niteblade Blog Train: Poetry CentralAlexahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09596917980084886488noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099734003400211309.post-70319134858708449472012-08-20T04:51:54.170-07:002012-08-20T04:51:54.170-07:00Hi, Alexa...great post!
It's so hard to name ...Hi, Alexa...great post!<br /><br />It's so hard to name just one poem that I really like but my offering is this: Grandfather's Death Mask by John Edward Lawson. Give it a read.<br /><br />Glad to learn more about the Poetey Gatekeeper. You put together wonderful collections.<br /><br />Cheers, Ash<br /><br />http://ash-krafton.blogspot.comAsh Krafton | @ashkraftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16958256604970916899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099734003400211309.post-59182664987519033282012-08-18T19:40:49.592-07:002012-08-18T19:40:49.592-07:00Hi Alexa! For me, horror is where you find it, an...Hi Alexa! For me, horror is where you find it, and isn't necessarily supernatural. I actually read very little fantasy poetry. So my two cents' worth would include Bruce Guernsey's "The Lost Brigade," a tale of military service and resultant madness post-WW II. And I love Wendell Berry's "Questionnaire," the final stanza of which I shall dare to reproduce here:<br /><br />5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,<br />the energy sources, the kinds of security,<br />for which you would kill a child.<br />Name, please, the children whom<br />you would be willing to kill.<br /><br />Now that's scary poetry.<br /><br />Roll on, blog train, roll on.<br /><br />Mark Rigney<br />tracer67@att.netAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00261000253309438154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099734003400211309.post-8858084474788038842012-08-17T18:26:03.048-07:002012-08-17T18:26:03.048-07:00Good for Blogspot, it gave my name after all! Good for Blogspot, it gave my name after all! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099734003400211309.post-50654870647009060412012-08-17T18:20:46.618-07:002012-08-17T18:20:46.618-07:00Hi Fellow Blogtrainer Alexa, neat blog as well as ... Hi Fellow Blogtrainer Alexa, neat blog as well as introduction! What the heck, I'll put in a "really liked" vote for Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Vampire." Maybe some will think it corny in its Victorian way, but it brought Theda Bara to stardom in A FOOL THERE WAS as well as helping define the concept of the femme fatale as "vamp." And, for better or worse, "a rag and a bone and a hank of hair" still resonate. (Can I throw in a commercial too, for a story of mine, "La Fatale," to appear in the Winter issue of WHITE CAT MAGAZINE, probably about the first of Jan. 2013, which gives a mention to Kipling as well as his cousin, Philip Burne-Jones -- who painted the picture the poem illustrates? Also contemporary prose author Bram Stoker.)<br /><br />I'm also not so anonymous either, if the "preview" matched what ends up being actually published. I'm actually James S. Dorr at http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com Ah, the joys of trying to find compatibility in competing blog services :-) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099734003400211309.post-41350504777293465612012-08-17T13:52:43.358-07:002012-08-17T13:52:43.358-07:00Wow, thanks Rhonda! I'm tearing up here. Just ...Wow, thanks Rhonda! I'm tearing up here. Just *HUGS.*Alexahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09596917980084886488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9099734003400211309.post-11293957303713812522012-08-17T12:32:43.095-07:002012-08-17T12:32:43.095-07:00Thank you for participating in the blog train, Ale...Thank you for participating in the blog train, Alexa, and more importantly for being a part of Niteblade. I think putting you at the helm of poetry is one of the wisest decisions I've made to date. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It wouldn't be the same without you.<br /><br />~ <a href="http://www.rhondaparrish.com" title="Speculative writer" rel="nofollow">Rhonda Parrish</a>Rhonda Parrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01509193591749273354noreply@blogger.com