Category: Poetry
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2 Poems by Nolcha Fox
He Doesn’t Want to Be a Poem ‘Poems are for wimps.‘I’m a man’s man, see?’ He slaps his gut, a size too largefor the Yankees shirt he’s wearing. That belly comes in handywhen he needs to rest his beer. He…
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THE BIGFOOT SPECIAL! THIS OCTOBER – SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
We are looking for articles, stories, poetry, cartoons, or whatever about Bigfoot, Yeti, Wildman, Wood Ape, Iceman, Skunk Ape, Grassman, Wendigo, Hairy Man, Cripplefoot or other bigfeet / bigfoots.
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The Theme of the Week is When The Tomato Falls Out Of Your Sandwich
Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme, just in time for picnic season, is When The Tomato Falls Out Of Your Sandwich. Many poets who stand up every day under the…
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GORKO BIGFOOT SPECIAL PLANNED FOR OCTOBER – SUBMISSIONS OPEN
We are looking for articles, stories, poetry, cartoons, or whatever about Bigfoot, Yeti, Wildman, Wood Ape, Iceman, Skunk Ape, Grassman, Wendigo, Hairy Man, Cripplefoot or other bigfeet / bigfoots.
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Bureaucrat Smiles by Ryan Keating
—Bureaucrat Smiles— A bureaucrat has forty-one smiles,each one a subtle dishonesty-like the smile that says you aren’t getting what you want today, even though you brought all the necessary documents, or the one that expects you to apologize for asking…
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YOU KNOW I LIKE MY GIRLS A LITTLE BIT OLDER
Josie’s on a vacation far away so come on over and talk it over. There are a lot of things I want to talk to you about, for example how I like my girls a little bit older. I just…
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2 Poems by Ryan Keating
—By Jim— At the height of Jim’s skyward passionsHis affections no doubt surpassed The meagre twelve foot clearance of that Connecticut underpass All the steel of the overhead bridgeWas no match for the breadth of his loveAnd even spraypainted block lettersCould not…
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‘The Basket-Maker’ by Arthur J. Burdick
Everyone knows that all men who published poetry between July 1908 and September 1913 in The Cleveland Guardian had only one thing on their mind.
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The Theme of the Week is Fingernails Down A Chalkboard
Many poets like to have people’s attention all of the time, but short of carrying a wine glass and salad fork around with you everywhere, how can it be gotten?
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2 Poems by Gene Goldfarb
The Good Bus Who are the people who compare me to a steam roller?I don’t ask anyone to throw their victims under me.Who calls me, in effect, the grim reaper by cutting offthe life expectancy of someone who got hit…
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‘Gazelle of Unfended Láatsi’ by Antonio Bodega-Palabra
SHOULD WE NEVER SPEAK WHAT WE SAY / IN THREAT OF BRITTLE LOVE
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POETRY SOCIETY TO HAVE MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT
Microfilm archives plundered from https://cdnc.ucr.edu/. YOU MAY ALSO LIKE…
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The Theme of the Week is Regifted Fruitcake
Many poets, staggering through the front door after a large holiday celebration with family or in-laws upstate, overwhelmed by a pile of Regifted Fruitcakes, sink into a morass of despair.
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THE GORKO 2021 ROUNDUP – HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Since we are roughly halfway through 2022, let’s take a look back over last year’s Gorko favorites.
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POETRY SOCIETY TO HEAR SHORT POEMS READ
by Tark Mackintosh Peoria’s own Poetry Society announced this morning that, in addition to the title billing of known poets Miss Mary Mackryll and others, it would open its monthly doors for the first time to unknown, itinerant poets. ‘Any…
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The Theme of the Week is Homemade Eggnog
Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme, just in time for the holidays, is Homemade Eggnog. Many poets forget about the real meaning of Christmas while bustling about doing shopping, putting…
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The Theme of the Week is Getting One Up On The Joneses
You can stop feeling crushed and small, because this week’s theme is all about Getting One Up On The Joneses.
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Poet’s Corner: ‘A Tale’
Commentary by Tark Mackintosh ‘A Tale’ One of the earliest surviving poems by Gulliver S. Gulliver, writing as a child under the pen name (name of the plum in French) of New York Sun, possibly a play on sun/son. river……
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The Theme of the Week is Scooped Twist Back Duplex Support Workout Bras
Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Scooped Twist Back Duplex Support Workout Bras. If you are like most poets, you like to look good while you work out. But…
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Found Poetry: ‘Poet Interruptus’ by Uncle Toby
POET INTERRUPTUSA Poem By Tobyfor Barbara from the office She is always clothed in a gait of disinterestHer tousled, carefully combed golden hairSpeaks lyric poetry like pure bromide to meCallow to the utmost, maturely she sips her morning brewWith unknowingly…
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YOU WRITE POETRY, UNCLE TOBY?
TOBY’S POETRYA Poetry Chapbook by Toby Poem One: Love Love is like a pumpkin pieCooling on a window sill. Butterflies and rainbowsAre like that pumpkin pie Love is likekladhkfsvfaevuifaeuvefuhifnjkdfskbjfsjkfsgf Hey what are you doing on my computer SEND A HAIKU…
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Emily Dickinson in her own words: ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’ (479)
Emily is my name, and I am a hard lady.
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New Poem ‘Love’
Frankengirl is the pen name of Mary Gulliver, daughter of the famous Modernist poet Gulliver S. Gulliver. Contrary to expectations, she was in fact quite easy on the eye.
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The Theme of the Week is Fruit
Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Fruit. This week’s Theme has me extremely excited, guys. I don’t know what you think of corned beef hash or the truckloads of…
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BOOK EXCERPT: ‘FRIED GREEN RUTABAGAS’ BY MITCHELL O’HARA
But Margaret would not be consoled, and fell into a heap on the fancy carpeting.
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This Week’s Theme is Antibacterial Gel
As more and more poets are vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, many will begin to experience a strange nostalgia for the year that was 2020-21, with its masks, chlorine doormats, oxygen tanks, and of course Antibacterial Gel.
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BOOK EXCERPT: ‘PRINCESS LEATHERHELM’ BY MITCHELL DARKWING
CHAPTER I “Princess Leatherhelm!” cried the gnome Jerrod, and he held out a small parcel wrapped in rough brown paper tied with a string. “Gnome Jerrod,” smiled the Princess, halting her steed Megalus with a thrust of her flashing stirrups.…
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Lemondrop reads poetry: ‘This Fair Oak’ by Maria Steinburg-Piccadilly
Today we will be reading a poem from one of my favorite authors, Maria Steinburg-Piccadilly, an eloquent poetess and Earth Child who spent the gloaming of her life, as she referred to it, right here in Reno. As we listen,…
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The Theme of the Week is Muscle Cars
Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Muscle Cars. This week’s Theme is extremely important in the work of many modernist and contemporary poets. That’s right, it is Muscle Cars.…
