pengwenn's Magnetic Poetry

[pengwenn]

I got a box of magnetic poetry for my birthday and I finally got around to bringing it into work. There are a lot of metal surfaces around here so I thought I'd start my "Magnetic Poetry" thread with the differnt poems I leave up. I don't know how often I'll update (I want to do it daily) but anyone else with Magnetic Poetry poems feel free to chime in.


6/30
like bitter music
& honey dreams
I cry sweet whispers
still beautiful to me

[mae]

I'm sorry, pengwenn, but what is a box of magnetic poetry? Is it like a child's magnetic alphabet (you know, the kind that every home with a toddler has on the refrigerator), only with words instead of just letters? Or am I way off base?

mae

[Mlou]

Hmmm...they're all poetic words, PW, but what does the totality mean? It sort of slips by me, somehow.

[pengwenn]

Yep, mae that's what magnetic poetry is. I'm just a kid with a magnetic alphabet of words. It's kind of fun.

Mlou, my poetry is more about emotion then meaning. I don't write it much anymore because of that fact. This first one is about the loss of a love yet the feeling that it was beautiful and being upset about it. "bitter music" hearing our song on the radio which can make you upset or bitter. "honey dreams" ......well I'll let mslover tell you about that one . "sweet whispers" the mumbling to yourself when someone's gone. then realizing that "it's better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all" but since I'm trying to avoid the cliche.....

I'll be going to B&N to buy another box of words. They have themed boxes and I don't know what one I'll get.


7/5
after watching purple winters
I fiddle with language
in the power of a thousand springs

[mae]

Yep, mae that's what magnetic poetry is. I'm just a kid with a magnetic alphabet of words. It's kind of fun.

Cool. I'll have to look for those. What kind of store carried them? (Discount, Macy's, drug, etc.)

[Mlou]

Barnes & Noble, I'm assuming.

Too deep for me, PW. It's like I almost know what it's saying and yet....

[pengwenn]

7/7
a picture of eternity
(in the moment of beauty)
leaves behind a life
produced in diamonds

[pengwenn]

7/14

Flooded together
In the delirious music
As we recall
The smell of time’s
Sweet symphony of life

[Mlou]

Go, Pw!

[pengwenn]

7/25

Languid in the storm of time
I chant the bitter blood of never
And scream in the shadow of dreams

[pengwenn]

Wow, it's been awhile

9/1
in a sea
of raw dreams
why fiddle with
a delirious language

[Mlou]

PW, it's like you're speaking in a slightly different language. I almost get it...and then I don't. Like I'm having brain tremors here.

[pengwenn]

Wow, apparently it's been awhile since I've played with my magnetic poetry. I bought a new box of words the other day (another birthday present from a gift card). It's the "Book Lovers" version. Couldn't pass that up. Let me see if I can't put something together today.

Mlou, that's twice you've mentioned you almost but don't get it. I don't know if I should feel frustrated since I'm only working with a limited selection of words or depressed because I just can't do it. I'll try harder.

[Mlou]

haha...Don't mind me, PW. You know what a fuddy-duddy I am. I am groping and it's nice words and then I think huh? How many words are you allowed to work with? I thought the PIM was bad enough with just 20 pieces!
Did you know you've been fiddling with language twice lately. Just be careful what else you fiddle with, okay?

[pengwenn]

6/28

I fear to search
for what evil
may be discovered
in my haunted soul
and empty heart

[Mlou]

Good one...scary, but good.

[bard_of_life]

wow... these are cool... I got some for my computer desktop (digital) (www.office.com but I'm not sure where to find them). Just a little creative distraction, eh pengwenn?

[bfsooner]

Pengy, I like the poetry. Keep in mind that I'm not a student of poetry, but it strikes me as a little beatnik...and I like it.

[pengwenn]

Barnes & Noble have the magnetic kind; starter kits and various "themed" packs. "Book lovers," "college days," "love," "gardening," "cooking," you name it thevy're got it.

[pengwenn]

7/5

To laugh
is to illustrate
the raw beauty
of the human spirit
and to discover
a symphony of
poetry and wisdom

[pengwenn]

7/12

I write
in vivid dreams
but the words
escape me
above the
lifeless page

[LilacWine]

Don't you hate when that happens?

[Mlou]

You said it, PW! Now if we could just videotape the dreams with closeups of the words.

[pengwenn]

. . . as long as I can pick and choose WHAT dreams get videotaped

[purty_trash]

Hey PG, just caught up on this. amazing poems. Wish I could write like all you envialble people here. In the meantime I can only bulge my eyeballs, drop my jaw and wonder.