Poetry Friday- The Host

Welcome everyone to Poetry Friday! Since the partcipants will be providing the main course, I'll simply provide the appetizers.

Here's a little fun with the thesaurus:

Sir, I abide by your comprehensive authority,
That each bard is a buffoon,
However you yourself may assist to display it,
That each buffoon is not a bard.

Can you identify the original poem, i.e., before I butchered it?

And while I'm being juvenile, here's a site which tries to help you write MadLibs poems. It could have been more fun, but there are loads of problems with the grammar, plus they only use two poems as templates. Here's my creation (and I use that term lightly):

blue decision's blue decision

quickly i have never creep, sluggishly beyond
any ocean, your faucet have their aqua:
in your most turquoise chef are things which pop me,
or which i cannot saute because they are too icily

your watery look intensely will unflambe me
though i have boil myself as bathtub,
you broil always candle by candle myself as crayon taste
(freezeing immortally, ideally) her liquid box

or if your fox be to defrost me, i and
my socks will pounce very imaginatively, inwardly,
as when the honey of this ocean braise
the bunny decisively everywhere timeing;

nothing which we are to sort in this gum wonder
the snail of your runny tiger: whose pimple
chop me with the icicle of its racetrack,
melting pot and stove with each swiming

(i do not fry what it is about you that fly
and catch; only something in me hunt
the burner of your faucet is slothlike than all crayon)
dial, not even the oven, has such cheetah-like fan

- John Mutford & e.e. cummings

Hopefully today's participants will offer up something more substantial!

Update: Looks like a potluck! Where else could you find Dickinson alongside Oscar the Grouch, or Walt Whitman next to the Veggie Tales Gang? Lots of great posts. I suggest you first read the comments below to get more of a description for each post. Look around, have fun, leave comments...

Cloudscome- a sonnet by John Donne

Karen Edminsten- Richard Wilbur’s “The Writer”

Suzanne- Elizabeth Coatsworth’s “January”

Wizards Wireless – Susan R. Makin’s Kilimanjaro Poems

Mary Lee- a found poem

Literacy Teacher- Bruce Lansky’s “Blow Your Nose”

Stacey- Stacey’s “Debacles”

Writer2b- Denise Levertov “St. Peter and the Angel”

Laura Salas- Various- 15 Words or Less Poems and William Carlos Williams’ “Winter Trees”

Sara Lewis Holmes- Sarah Lewis Holmes’ “Flower in Tibet”

Liz In Ink - Sylvia Plath's “Metaphors”

Jama Rattigan- A few thoughts on beat poetry, and of course, soup

Shelf Elf- Joyce Sidman’s anthology of dog poems “The World According to Dog”

Miss Rumphius- Louis May Alcott’s “A Song From the Suds”

Mitali Perkins- Marge Piercey’s “For The Young Who Want To”

Chicken Spaghetti- Howard Nemerov’s “Storm Windows”

Kelly- Czeslaw Milosz’s “Ars Poetica”

Little Willow- Hannah Teter’s “Wise Eyes”

Jenny- Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing”

TadMack- Charles Bukowski’s “Fame”

Jennie- Marge Piercy’s “Why Marry At All”

Crispus Attucks- Forrest Hamer’s “A Poem About Whiteness”

Becky- The Veggie Tales Gang “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything”

Kelly Fineman- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls”

HipWriterMama- Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Youth and Age”

The Simple and The Ordinary- Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Katherine”

Ruth- Dr. Bacchus’s “Chai” (Poems about Kenya)

The Well Read Child- Oscar The Grouch “Knock Three Times”

Wild Rose Reader- Elaine Magliaro’s winter poems

3M- Michelle M’s “Cat’s Eye”

Blue Rose Girls- Eve Mirriam’s “How To Eat A Poem” and Mark Strand’s “Eating Poetry”

Shannon- gathas, an original gatha by Nona

Amoxcalli- Herberto Helder’s “Someone opens an orange in silence”

Anamaria- Gwendolyn Brooks’ Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Becky at Farm School- Emily Dickinson’s “No. 668, c1863”

Sheila- Tu Fu’s “Snow Storm”

7-Imp- Galway Kinnell’s “The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Good-Bye to His Poetry Students”

S/V Mari Hal-O-Jen- Mary Oliver's "The Hermit Crab"

Tiel Aisha Ansari's "Why I Don't Make New Year's Resolutions"

Andrea's "Roar of a Snore" Podcast

Web- Jay M. Harris's The Moon Is La Luna

Erin- Billy Collins's "Days"

*The thesaurusized poem above was originally by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and went like this:

Epigram
Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.