[New-Poetry] Poems about inanimate objects only

[Anny Ballardini]

believe it or not, but this is so much Dickinson, I mean, so much _her_
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Linda Sue Grimes 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
  Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 10:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Poems about inanimate objects only


  Here's one, except the human element is introduced with "happy" and "Careers" and even ideas such as "independent" and "simplicity."  And, of course, the theme of the poem is a comparison of stone and human sensibilities.  But as far as the fitting the call for a poem without any animate object, this one works on that level:

  How happy is the little Stone
  That rambles in the Road alone,
  And doesn't care about Careers
  And Exigencies never fears--
  Whose Coat of elemental Brown
  A passing Universe put on,
  And independent as the Sun
  Associates or glows alone,
  Fulfilling absolute Decree
  In causual simplicity--

  --Emily Dickinson, #1510 in Johnson



    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Bob Grumman 
    To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
    Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:28 PM
    Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Poems about inanimate objects only



     
      It seems that "Between Walls" works or do you consider "hospital" to implicit of people?

      I haven't really paid close enough attention to this thread, so sorry if I ain't getting it.

      --Linda Sue Grimes

      "Between Walls" is what I'm looking for, yes.  Although now I'm wondering about poems that have nothing at all of the human in them, like hospitals and wheelbarrows!  You're understanding the game I started fine, by the way--my rules were incomplete at first, and probably not all that clear since.  But I have no problem with all the out-of-bounds plays going on.  

      --Bob


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