Re: NastyGoon lifts a line

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 12:41:26 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
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https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.comments
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MPP) aka
"HarryLime" wrote:
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I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were
intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here.
Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler."  And I
was right in doing so.
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Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
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"Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
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That's poetry of the highest quality.

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The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line
of Robert Creeleys poem, "The Days Pile Up":
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"The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
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I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be
something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".

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This also reminds me of a poem I wrote back around 1976, "Shattered,"
which starts with:
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"The seconds have piled up on the floor,
Lost here in some other guy's past."
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I posted this on the newsgroup a few years ago. JLA Forums does have a
search function so I might be able to locate it there.

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The idea of time piling up is a common literary conceit.  It stems from
the image of sand piling up at the bottom of an hourglass (which is why
Death is often depicted as carrying one).
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One of my favorite examples is from Melville's "Moby Dick":
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"But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly
faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the
piled centuries since Paradise."
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I like it so much, that I've used variations of it in several of my
poems.
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Your above variation is certainly a cut above the usual swill that you
post here -- but your older posts show that your mind was a look sharper