The Poet is Dead
The End of a Writers' Block
THE POET IS DEAD
The words don't come
I plead and I beg.
No rhyming is here
...the poet is dead
I use to juggle words
Twist them and bend.
They were once my lovers;
Now barely my friends.
Where is the rhythm
the rhyme and song?
I wrote them all once
and they sound wrong.
Maybe I've changed
or the poet is dead.
Here lie the bones
in my rhetorical bed.
# # #
Published by Alisha
- Bird Imagery in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Sky-Lark, and Ode to a Nighti...An essay on the significance of bird imagery in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Sky-Lark, and Ode to a Nightingale.
- Review of Jack Gilbert's "The Great Fires"This article contains a book review of contemporary poet Jack Gilbert's book, "The Great Fires".
"Ode to the Taotie" with Author's CommentaryAn analysis of the author's own poem in terms of Stephen Fry's model of the English ode.
Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Mimetic Exegesis The meaning of Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire' explained by mimesis, diegesis, and exegesis. Who is Shade? Who is Kinbote? Does Zembla exist? 
Five Reasons Why the Spoken Word Scene in Atlanta is "Dead"Have you ever wondered why spoken word venues in Atlanta don't seem to last very long?
- 44 Years Later: Remembering Poet Sylvia Plath
- Is the Literary Novel Dead?
- The Truth, Nothing but the Truth?
- Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much with Us"
- A Reader's Response to Ntozake Shange's For the Colored Girl Who Has Considered Su...
- The World is Too Much
- Review of Friedebert Tuglas' the Poet and the Idiot and Other Stories