Sugar baby be like
THE FIRST half of the year is already over.
Can we start preparing for my 50th birthday celebration now?
I want July 1st to mark my...
Poetry for a better world
I WANTED a better world.
So I designed the June 2018 Poem-a-thon and Poetry Workshop with Peter Solis Nery on Facebook.
If I cannot change the...
And then there were twenty
SO, again, let me ask you: Why should you write poetry? How should you write poetry?
To get published! With the eye on publication!
If you...
New panties in poetry
LOOKS like I need to say this again.
Why should you write poetry?
No, it’s not to express yourself.
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You can express yourself — go dance, go...
A brief history of poetry according to Peter Solis Nery, Part 3
THERE are many kinds of sh*t today.
I mean, poems. Many kinds of poems.
And they are important to many kinds of people.
Some emotional poems for...
A brief history of poetry according to Peter Solis Nery, Part 2
THE HIGH popes of poetry insisted on rhyme because not everybody can find a sensible partner to the word ‘thyme’.
If you can pair ‘wine’,...
A brief history of poetry according to Peter Solis Nery, Part 1
IN THE beginning, humans said “Ahhh!”
Then, they said, “Aaaagay!”
And “Oh!”
And then, they pieced them together —
“Ahh-aaagay-aaagay! Aragaaaay, Aragaaaaay! Oh!”
“Oh! Oh! Ohhhhhhhhhh...”
E-I-E-I-O!
And the earliest cave...
The poetics of Peter Solis Nery, Part 6
SOME things are better long.
I like some things pretty long.
But for poetry, I like them short.
Short and quick.
Like a blowjob. I mean, like a...
The poetics of Peter Solis Nery, Part 5
ART and poetry should not invite ridicule.
Should not cause frustration, irritation, and loss of hope among those who seek beauty and perfection in the...
The poetics of Peter Solis Nery, part 4
HERE’S a Peter Solis Nery statement of preference:
Except for haiku, which brings with it a whole culture and a way of reading, a poem...