Slam poetry link

This is a slam poetry link that if you want to check out some slam poems.

http://www.poetryslam.com/

Poem with interesting words only

Snafu

Diabolical heathen's ravenous
discombobulated quasi-legible puss,
snafu's honorifically primordial

Found poem

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Paraphrase Ha Jin's poem "Missed Time"

I really suck at this but here is a shot. Ha Jin's poem goes as follows:

My notebook has remained blank for months
thanks to the light you shower
around me. I have no use
for my pen, which lies
languorously without grief.

Nothing is better than to live
a storyless life that needs
no writing for meaning-
when I am gone, let others say
they lost a happy man,
though no one can tell how happy I was.

My paraphrase:

I haven't wrote a short story, novel, poem, or anything for months, and it is all because of the wealth I have made writing previously. I don't have to write if I don't feel like it and I am not going to give a shit.

The best life for me is to be a lazy ass and not make up stories, like when I retire I won't have to write to have meaning. So when I do retire I hope people think my stories were inspirational because I truly intended to be an inspiration.

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" questions

1)The older waiter is so reluctant to go to bed because besides insomnia, he apparently is living with guilt of either doing or going through something terrible when he was younger. The nada refrain shows the old waiter has had some existential injustice against him and he no longer believes in god. The old waiter understands the old man's need for the cafe on the basis of loneliness. They both of them appear to be loners and don't want to be by themselves, especially the suicidel old man. So therefore the cafe represents both of their social lives, based within their comfort zone.

2) I think the attitude of the older waiter would better fit that of the author. The young waiter was shortlived and snappy in his lines. The younger waiter also wanted to get out of there and go home but the drunk old man was preventing this, irritating the younger. The older seemed more patient, let the old man drink, his days are limited. Hemingway makes his own feelings clear when he described how the old man walked away from the cafe, and how he described the older waiters feelings towards the need of the cafe.

3) The style is set when the man continually asks for more liquor. Its distinctive in the sense that the cafe is needed by this old drunk man who recently attempted suicide and another, but there must be more that just don't know about this cafe. Heminway's vocabulary was annoying.

4) The story is told from 3rd person non-participant. I feel it is appropriate to tell the story from the POV because it can emphasize the point of the story trying to be sent. The cafe represents alot more than just a cafe, it represented piece of mind and belonging.

List of words you don't hear every day and Poem.

Here are the five I used in my poem.
1) Snafu-all messed up
2)Quasi-supposedly, apparently, seemingly
3)Legible-that can be read easily
4)Ravenous-Omnivorous, starved, voracious
5)Heathen-irreligious, uncivilized

The initial intent was not to be heatheness
My face became noticeably legible
It read silently outloud, "Snafu."
The quasi-stoned wall not unlike Berlin
The result of a backfired ravenous plan

Here are other words that I found to be somewhat interesting:
Diabolical-devilish, fiendish, pertaining to the devil
Honorific-conferring honor, term of respect
Satchel-small bag for books
Spangle-small pieces of glittering metal, used to ornament dresses
Spank-to strike with flat of hand, especially on the butt as punishment
Primordial-existing from the beginning, first in order

This is answers for the questions after "I Love the World, As Does Any Dancer"

1)The author's unusual perspective affected the tone of the poem in the way that the author Hix used adjectives with nouns. I.E. Hix made walking barefoot in the rain sound enticing. The author wrote, "Lush grass underfoot after April rain", that is something anyone can relate too if they have had walked on wet grass before. Hix even made "sun-seared sidewalk in summer" tempting to the mind.

2)If the author Hix used sight instead of touch in his poem, I feel it would be a more colorful and beautiful poem. Also, it wouldn't wierd me out with the whole foot fetish deal. I think the adjectives Hix would use would be more powerful and descriptive.

This is for the questions after "Saboteur"

1) Mr. Chiu is in Muji on his way home from his honeymoon. He is eating before catching a train with his new wife.

2)Perhaps the policeman were laughing at them becauseMr. Chiu was eating with chopsticks in the reformed China? Or maybe they were laughing at Mr. Chiu scarfing his face. Another possibility could be they were laughing at his wife looking all sweaty or something.

3)Mr. Chiu Is charged with disrupting the peace. Mr. Chiu is innocent.

4) Mr. Chiu said, "this is utterly unreasonable." Then Mr. Chiu refused to go arguing that he had a train to catch and already bought the tickets.

5) Mr. Chiu initially denies signing the confession because he knew he was innocent and wanted justice. He eventually signed the confession when he saw his apprentice Fenjin getting beat.

6) The irony in Mr. Chiu's arrest is that the police were the actual sabotuer, the policemen were disrupting the police. The irony in Mr. Chiu's confession was that he was confessing to something he didn't do and that was against his beliefs.

7) Mr. Chiu decides to get revenge about the same time that he decided to sign the confession.

8) Mr. Chiu's revenge is definately not justified. He didn't take into account the innocent people he would be harming. His revenge was far greater than any thing the police did to him that day.

9) Mr. Chiu does in the end become a saboteur. He lived up to the title the police forced him to sign a confession for doing. Although the police were the initial saboteur, Mr. Chiu definatley had the last word.

This is the questions from the poem The Names

1) I would say the Collins was suttle in the way his poem seemed self important. He used a lot of different ideas for places where he saw the names, which were in order from A to Z which showed that the names running through his head were somehow compulsive and organized consciously or sub consiously. I felt that Collins was a bit overwritten in the sense that he took you through the whole alphabet, a whole town and countryside, and then went extreme Pathos on us.

2) I think Collins' use of diction was appropriate for the subject. For me, it seems he has some sort of post traumatic stress and can't help but think of names in sequence of the letters of the alphabet. He explained depression through his words like "there is barely room on the walls of the heart". Collins seemed dark and mysterious, using words like "cried out" and "thick tangle where letters are hidden." By the end of the poem, I almost felt sorry for this fellow.