{"id":3048,"date":"2016-07-26T00:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T00:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2016-07-26T00:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T00:32:04","slug":"on-reading-the-verse-of-hera-linsday-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/on-reading-the-verse-of-hera-linsday-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"On Reading the Verse of Hera Linsday Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hera<\/a>
Hera Lindsay Bird – the girl next door with the crude but not sexy language<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got no objection to lewdness in poetry, or the odd swear word or a few, but HLB writes to make the reader hot, but she just left me cold. It doesn’t help that she looks like the girl next door, her image doesn’t reflect her writing. Am I just getting old? So I wrote this non rhyming verse on her… <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Keats is dead, all must die
\nBut none are dead while there verse lives on
\nLightens the heart of a reader or two…<\/p>\n

Makes folks think
\nMakes folk talk
\nMakes folk want to read some more…<\/p>\n

Yes, all know sex, somehow, sometime, with someone
\nOr a few. Some write about it.<\/p>\n

Butter wouldn’t melt on seeing we say
\nOn reading some say it would boil,
\nI say it would burn.<\/p>\n

When success comes from shock
\nIts a measure of repression of the audience
\nNot the brilliance of the poems
\nThat reduce humanity
\nNot just women
\nTo their sexual function
\nAs objects from anthers joy.<\/p>\n

Like Keats we will all be dead.
\nUnlike Keats, most of us will be forgotten.
\nPeople will still have sex.
\nSome will write about it.
\nFew like this…<\/p>\n

Reference:<\/p>\n

Is THIS poetry… or just lewdness posing as eroticism to make a name from the shock factor? (NSFW)<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got no objection to lewdness in poetry, or the odd swear word or a few, but HLB writes to make the reader hot, but she just left me cold. It doesn’t help that she looks like the girl next door, her image doesn’t reflect her writing. Am I just …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,233],"tags":[988,3110,3109,3106,3112,606,3111,3108,3107],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-rhyming-poems","category-writers","tag-critic-2","tag-crude","tag-good-taste","tag-hera-linsday-bird","tag-modern-sexuality-in-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-prudish","tag-sex-in-poetry","tag-what-is-poetry","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Na","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1202,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/slam-in-kilkenny-the-all-ireland-poetry-slam-in-irelands-quirkiest-pub\/","url_meta":{"origin":3048,"position":0},"title":"SLAM in Kilkenny – The All Ireland Poetry Slam in Irelands Quirkiest Pub","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"24th November 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Hole in the Wall pub in Kilkenny has to be one of - if not the - quirkiest pub in Kilkenny. 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