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So now my computer is disabled and I have plenty of files and manuscripts abandoned on the hard drive. I have my USB cables and my connectors. I wait for a hard drive enclosure as I attempt to retrieve all those lost files. They still exist—of that I am certain.
Knowing they are there
so close yet so far away
hidden manuscripts
I will try to do it myself. I am a cheap bastard and the desire to save money certainly plays into my DIY philosophy. I can do without spending all the money on a pro that actually knows what they are doing. But the hidden motive is also that I know almost everything that’s on the drive and so would the expert that retrieves the files. They really don’t need to know all my pornographic preferences. Does the computer expert really need to know that I like butch Latinas or that I occasionally flirt with bi-curious leanings? I might have some ‘splaining to do if they got a peak at my stash. So for now, the goal is be the Emersonian man of self reliance and keep my perversions to myself.
All that hidden porn
stashed away on fractured drive
keep it to myself
wishing to maintain the cloak
no one else has a need to know
This seems to me to be an
Januarian
I do greatly enjoy this style
I do greatly enjoy this style of writing. lt seems well suited to my temperament. I'm not sure how pure I am. An expert on Japanese poetry would need to make that determination. Thank you for reading and commenting
I have been writing Tanka (as
I have been writing Tanka (as I can barely manage Haiku/Senryu) for more than a decade and I have several hundred here on postpoems: in my opinion, you are showing tremendous respect for the poem. I am in something of a minority because I do believe that part of the purpose of writing poetry of any kind is to do so with skill, and, in the Asian forms, that means lines of 5/7/5 in Haiku and Senryu, and 5/7/5/7/7 for Tanka and Kyoka. There is an online magazine called Prune Juice which specialized in Senryu and Kyoka---and I have learned a lot from reading its contents (although the syllabic rules are now followed faithfully in its pages). I have really come to admire your use of the form, and I applaud the accomplishment you have set forth on postpoems. People, here as elsewhere, are a little too quick to criticize, and not quick enough to appreciate. I would prefer to be a little superlative in my comments because my timespan is short, and I would rather spend it making compliments than criticisms. (Besides, I usually have enough to confess to Father Gregory without adding internet squabbles to it.) So I look forward to your next postings in this form, and I know you will continue showing us how.
Januarian
These Japanese forms provide
These Japanese forms provide a great way to develop and hone skill. It requires discipline to utilize formats. That also strengthens my ability to write free verse as well. Keep writing and keep confessing. I prefer to be positive over negative because that is what the world needs right now. We need kindness and compassion. Know it all douchebags add little to the conversation.
During my senior undergrad
During my senior undergrad year, I was finally admitted to a very exclusive Poetry course---which was only offered every three years. Your remarks, above, summarize and enclose, in a less than two minute read, what we were trying to do in that ten weeks, and failed to achieve. The know it all douchebags that add little to the conversation remind me of every undergrad senior I ever knew, including myself. Kindness and compassion cannot be taught in a textbook, or a set of footnotes: but can be learned from Poets, like yourself, whose poems bear witness to what this world of ours needs---positive over negative, and kindness expressed as compassion.
Like I said, you really show us, Poets and Reader, how it ought to be done.
Januarian