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by Laura Doom

It's abuse a muse week for this freak on a leash
as she seeks out a niche as the queen of pastiche.
Time to stock up on clichéd, derivative stuff
hide it all up her sleeve, write it out off the cuff
take each verse as it comes, live it stanza to stanza
and practice each impromptu extravaganza
until she's perfected the regurgitation
of recycled on-demand improvisation.

Now my poetic licence is up for renewal
competition is hot - well that's cool, but I'm not
and I'm sick of the sight of my stale, typecast voice
so I guess re-invention's the obvious choice...
I need a new pseudonymph, something ornate
with a limelight persona to give my words weight
when the picture is pretty, but the artist is lame
from the struggle to flesh out her skeletal frame.

I could kill for the thrill of that mythical ichor
a body of work that a poet would die for
sustained by arterial legerdemain
turning vainly inane into vintage arcane,
or a strawberry bland who can fluff all my lines
maybe wrap them in velvet and tie them with vines
for a package delivering lyrical powers
full of love-lies-a-bleeding heart poesies of flowers.

Yet, in lifting the gloom from this doom-laden phase
I am caught in the throes of a creeping malaise.
Do I savour the prospect of instant success?
Will my avatrice sate the demands of the press?
As the hunger intensifies to its extreme
self-restraint gets the munchies and swallows the dream...
so I guess when I wake I'll be mourning the fate
of some fantasy poet that laura just ate.

05/19/2007

Posted on 05/19/2007
Copyright © 2024 Laura Doom

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by A. Paige White on 05/19/07 at 01:33 AM

This was wonderful Laura! The title got my laughter going and your lyrical spherical verses kept my giggles in time with your rhyme. Love it!

Posted by Morgan D Hafele on 05/19/07 at 01:43 AM

hahaha, i think the funniest part is that i'm trying right now not to eat a poet... i think that sort of makes sense right? this piece is fantastical!

Posted by Rhiannon Jones on 05/19/07 at 10:57 AM

Fantastic!!! I've wanted to write a poem with "pseudonymph" in it...you beat me to it. I really enjoyed your semantics and rhyme.

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 05/19/07 at 02:30 PM

This is a fine romp from title to the munchies at the end!!! I love the beat, the laughing at oneself, the fantasy of it all!! Well done!

Posted by Maria Terezia Ferencz on 05/20/07 at 07:27 PM

I would love to see this done out loud on a poetry jam!! What a write!

Posted by Rachelle Howe on 05/21/07 at 04:09 PM

A meg, a mic, and a backup band...

Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 05/22/07 at 02:21 PM

Muwahahahahahahahaha. I want to see this done out loud, too.

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 05/24/07 at 10:56 AM

it tickles the bones of my fancy to imagine a fantastical poet being eaten who was not particularly fond or aware of its being on the menu and then with the order finding itself on the plate, then on the palate and then and then ............. this poem pounds the beat like Moliere, who would be proud to have assembled this fine feasting of words onto our palate, the fine lineage and vintage of which it is advisable we all take to our hearts and munch.

Posted by Max Bouillet on 01/22/08 at 01:10 AM

I wouldn't worry about this poet's fate. This poet will arrive even if a bit late. For the persona you created so impromptu you'll find sometime later all covered in poo. Ask not for whom the bowl flushes... it flushes for you. Sorry for my childish humor!

Posted by Rhiannon Jones on 03/26/08 at 11:44 AM

Congrats, Laura, for this well-deserved POTD. This one still cracks me up....priceless!

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 03/26/08 at 12:23 PM

Congratulations on poem of the day Laura. Fun to read......CharMin

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 03/26/08 at 03:19 PM

Great to see this as POTD!

Posted by Kristine Briese on 03/26/08 at 05:29 PM

Remarkable and fun piece of work!

Posted by Alex Smyth on 03/26/08 at 09:19 PM

Bravo bravo!! Genuine word play at it's finest! Magnificent and hearty congratulations on POTD.

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 03/26/08 at 10:00 PM

*joy lighting up my eyes* how cool this. you inspire and delight! :)

Posted by A. Paige White on 03/26/08 at 11:49 PM

Still love it!
Knew to get out a bib for my drool
sure to drib rivulets in your school
of aural mood
feasting again 'pon the poet Laura ate
looking so fabulous on what a poet's plate...
Wonderful to see it as POTD!

Posted by Mara Meade on 03/27/08 at 07:55 PM

I delighted in pondering this one - much to think about beween the clever rhymes and lines...

Posted by Charlie Morgan on 03/31/08 at 02:50 PM

...laura, just take me back to my seat, it was a wonderful dance and now...i missed this in 07 and so glad i see it now...i chew words and you got some here[that i love]...good write and rhyme...charlie

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 04/01/08 at 03:45 AM


* m o r e ! *

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 04/01/08 at 02:07 PM

Excellent hip hop lyrics Laura. And a very witty title also to introduce it.

Posted by LK Barrett on 05/23/09 at 03:54 PM

some times you can have too much fun...fortunately, this was just enough...ty, miss doom, for the ear-full...lk

Posted by Ulyss Rubey on 06/25/10 at 10:38 PM

"self restraint get the munchies and swallows the dream" Love it.

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