Came across a nice little poetry site this afternoon that I thought I’d share with you. It’s called hello poetry, which might not be the most poetic of urls but it’s a nifty way to find poems and uses of concepts through key word searches. Since the beginning of the year I’ve been working through a series of alphabet poems based on two pages of the dictionary per day at twitter and so to shore up my knowledge of the use of the word “alphabet” itself, I did a little search and found some uses in poems by Neruda, Dickinson, Browning and something a little more humorous in the Spike Milligan vein. Behind the scenes of the poems that I’m writing at twitter, I’m working on extrapolating something larger and so of course I’m curious to know how the concept of alphabet has been used before. I’m also a big fan of the moon and was delighted to find this haiku by Basho:
A field of cotton–
as if the moon
had flowered.
On the topic of small poems, four and twenty poetry is a lilliputioushly lovely site set up through the auspices of Declaration Editing. It’s a great place to send small poems of four lines that total no more than twenty words. A simple but smart idea that’s put to great use in a monthly poetry journal.
Oh and yes, here’s my own personal plug, one of my poems is in there this month.