http://www.poetryoflife.com/
http://www.sbpoet.net/
http://www.poets.org/
http://ninaalvarez.net/
http://www.robertpeake.com/poems
My favorite blog in this list is from Robert Peake. I really liked one of his poem called "Pawn". Already from the get-go I understand that he's describing a simple chess game as a real war zone which pits soldiers and knights against one another. And how the pawn is always most likely to move first, and if need be the one to be sacrifice without much of a worry from the player. The way he read the poem was really good! It was calm, entertaining and amusing. The pauses were nice and at certain part of the poem he would tweak his voice a little bit to give it some emphasis such as "most unlucky lump", which depicts the poor pawn's fate in an average board game or even a real war setting.
That poem "Pawn" certainly sounds interesting!
ReplyDeleteI like how something simple like a chess game can be stretched and visualized as a very serious not so simple war like scenario. You feel for the "chess pieces" and start to visualize it as not just a simple piece but a real person. The question I would ask is that, is the theme of the poem about how people are starting to become desensitized to war and sacrifice to the point where we can simplify them this way? Maybe its a clever way of pointing that out? There's always a possibility!