Barker

Poem to be entered in the Vicious Parker contest...

 

Barker

 

Dorothy Parker

Might have been

A barker

Louder than I ever have seen

 

The red wine

Went down her spine

Leaving her in spite

Softening her bite

 

Vicious

As it should be

I hope you do not see

Her poetry as

Atrocious

 

As some of her visions

Are surely true

The lady became blue

Of real contradictions

 

Sometimes

Vicious rhymes

Are as delicious

As the apple

In the garden of Eden

Author's Note

Before entering this contest I had not heard of Dorothy Parker. (I am a non native speaker of English, living in Europe and my English Poetry professor entirely devoted his course to mainly British poets, apart from Sylvia Plath...) So this is like both a literary discovery and experiment at the same time for me!

Reviews

[Kees Kapteyn]

"Sometimes
Vicious rhymes
Are as delicious
As the apple
In the garden of Eden"

These lines make the whole poem for me. I like the wordplay you use here, but I wonder how much better the poem would be if you could liberate yourself from rhyming words. It's really really hard to have an open, honest poem when a poet has to forfeit sincerity for a rhyming word.

[Sam]

I liked this poem a lot. I thought it was very creative. Once I started I wanted to finish.

Keep up the good work. =D

[Elsie Duggan]

If this is the same Dorothy Parker, I know , you have captured her with excellence,