Now what am I to write today?
I have to get my coursework in,
my lovely girls can splash and play
and I want sin.
The meter that I love to read,
it’s soft and subtle to entrance,
to join my girls is my need
soon I will dance.
A mass of words on paper fall
into iambic, I must sort
so I can go play with them all
free of all thought.
The work complete at last, I’m free
the poet that is here in me.
Author notes
Photography: Jeff Green
subject: "Waterfalls" by Antony Donaldson
Background to Waterfalls
Youthful, shapely, sexually confident, these women strike flirtatious poses and reveal themselves almost wantonly to the viewer’s gaze. Even when clothed in their bathing suits, or when showing us nothing more than their faces, it is the exposed surface of their perfect flesh that one first notices. Their facial features are barely sketched in or depicted in a generalized way, to emphasise the fact that these are not portraits of particular individuals but fantasy images formed in the mind of a young man.
These depictions of beach beauties, strippers and starlets bask in the prospect of pleasure, of an existence characterised by never-ending relaxation and leisure, and as such they perfectly capture the mood of the time - the demands for the good life after the greyness and deprivations of the immediate post-war years. Contemporary arts are captured with the details of various art forms reflecting the desire to the Bohemian life of pre-war art.
Antony Donaldson
Form Sapphic Stanza (appropriately enough)
Sapphic Stanza:A poetic stanza of three quantative lines and one adonic. The meter is apprently the closest to the way we think and talk at our most impassioned moments.
The sapphic stanza has a long and interesting history. The Greek poet Sappho invented it and gave it its name; the Roman poets Catullus and Horace used it for some of their finest poems; Algernon Charles Swinburne, an accomplished classicist, wrote a beautiful poem simply called "Sapphics": read it if you're interested in a "standard" example of the form.
In a list
A contest entry
- A poet in London by cricketjeff.
600 points, ended April 23, 2008, 11 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Not a sonnet by cricketjeff.
1800 points, ended April 28, 2008, 20 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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I think worth a good re-reading for the clever form if nothing else
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congrats on the bronze Jems m'Lady
giggles a bronze for a poem about a bronze ... perfik
xxx Your angel xxx
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I like the sapphic ode verse-form, and have occasionally used it myself. This is very good. Congratulations on the bronze.
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Good one! Probably the best take on the statue overall, but you cheated and looked at the other pictures Well worth the bronze.
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Thank you my Bro, she is truly beautiful, still researching the story behind the whole fountain will let you know
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wowwwww Jems m'Lady
this turned out just butiful ..all the hard work shows... good luck in the contest
xxx Youe angel xxx
love You
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my thanks to you my angel bright,
the stanza style so well suits me
sapphic by nature, art now write
it's magic see
YLD
xxx Jem xxx
think I got that right.
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