What I've Been Up To
I would have written sooner, but...
by Carl Bettis in Me
Haven't updated this in a while, have I? That's going to be one of my New Year's resolutions for 2024: to post here at least 4 times a month.
A list of poems I've written (only those I've completed) since my August 20th update, including which heteronym wrote them. I've probably missed some, since my poems are scattered across a few different notebooks.
When the notes say "A cosmic scale poem," that refers to a project my heteronyms and I are working on.
| Date completed | Title | By | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2023-09-10 |
(untitled) | Carl Bettis | A senryu | |
2023-09-11 |
tanka journal 2023-09-11 | Carl Bettis | A tanka | |
2023-09-24 |
(untitled) | Carl Bettis | A senryu | |
2023-09-29 |
(untitled) | Carl Bettis | A senryu | |
2023-10-01 |
tanka journal 2023-10-01 | Carl Bettis | A tanka | |
2023-10-02 |
Demon Management | Carl Bettis | Free verse | Note to self: this is in the old Bienfang sketchbook, not yet typed up. |
2023-10-03 |
This Year for Halloween | Thomas Gorn | Free verse | As is common for Gorn, this is about love and/or sex. He can't always tell the difference. |
2023-10-19 |
Mummies and Ghouls | Carl Bettis | Free verse | I'm not happy with the ending. |
2023-10-20 |
Yeah, No | Roynald MacRoss | An acrostic | |
2023-10-22 |
Ö, the Demon of Self-preservation | Mort Duffy | Free verse | Note to self: this is in the old Bienfang sketchbook, not yet typed up. |
2023-10-23 |
Hair | Carl Bettis | Free verse | A poem about losing and finding. |
2023-10-24 |
Triad | Ian Erinson | Form based on the old Irish triads | |
2023-10-25 |
My Ancestors' Monster | Carl Bettis | Free verse | |
2023-10-26 |
Ontology | Bryant Jacobi | Free verse | |
2023-11-03 |
My Choice | Carl Bettis | Free verse | Not autobiographical, but also not by one of my existing heteronyms. Too unromantic for Thomas Gorn, too polite for Sturgis Giteau. |
2023-11-06 |
The Muriel Lidell | Mort Duffy | A prose poem | Note to self: in current crapbook, I don't think it's typed up yet. |
2023-11-08 |
my question | sylvester hobson | A visual poem | Unusually experimental for hobson. |
2023-11-09 |
Chaz Peabody | Carl Bettis | Free verse | Sort of a Spoon River Anthology vibe, I think. |
2023-11-10 |
Tedious Threads | Mort Duffy | Free verse | |
2023-11-11 |
Epitaph for Logar Pinchwit | Thomas Gorn | Free verse quatrain | |
2023-11-12 |
Alliance | Mort Duffy | Free verse | |
2023-11-15 |
Is It Working? | Mort Duffy | Free verse | |
2023-11-16 |
On the Blakean, E.V. | Thomas Gorn | Free verse | I'm not sure this is finished. It might need more in the middle. One of Gorn's bitter poems. |
2023-11-17 |
The Gods Must Have Blood | Carl Bettis | Free verse | The life of a fictional saint |
2023-11-19 |
persona | sylvester hobson | A minimalist tanka | |
2023-11-21 |
To A.H.L | Thomas Gorn | A senryu | A cosmic scale poem |
2023-11-22 |
(untitled) | sylvester hobson | Haiku-ish | A cosmic scale poem |
2023-11-23 |
Perspective | Mort Duffy | A senryu | A cosmic scale poem |
2023-11-23 |
Your Tremendous Love | Basil Cartryte | Five lines, all with the same consonant sounds in the same order | A cosmic scale poem |
2023-11-25 |
Metaphysical, Even | Ian Erinson | Free verse | A cosmic scale poem |
2023-11-26 |
Æsthetic | Ian Erinson | Free verse | |
2023-11-27 |
The Face of God | Bryant Jacobi | Free verse | A cosmic scale poem |
2023-12-03 |
(untitled) | Thomas Gorn | Perhaps a tanka? | A cosmic scale poem |
2023-12-06 |
Recess | Thomas Gorn | Free verse | |
2023-12-08 |
Dating Outside Your Era | Mort Duffy | Free verse | More straightforward and confessional than Duffy's typical poetry. |
2023-12-12 |
That's What I'm Talking About | Sturgis Giteau | Free verse | A cosmic scale poem |
2023-12-14 |
The Preacher | Ian Erinson | Free verse | |
2023-12-16 |
Cruel Boss | Thomas Gorn | Free verse tercet | A dirty joke |
