Eumolpus

Member since January 20, 2017

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THE YEAR OF COVID

Posted Aug 19, 2020 · 20 lines · 7 critiques

The future is due sooner or later.
It’s stuck in traffic or missing a train.
I spend the year in a waiting room
Like under a willow in the rain.

How impatiently the days pass
Spinning like a tumble weed.
How little the moments last--
Time consumes all it receives.

I toss and turn this morning
Knowing the hours to be worn,
Every minute another death recorded,
Every minute another tragedy born.

We who survive may look back
After the cures free us to mourn,

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Holding hands in halls of packed
Humanity singing a requiem song.

The future will come, later or sooner,
Reaffirming it’s on the way.
But we have been to war and wounded,
And will never be the same.

Eumolpus’s timeline

May 2022
26 Thu

Critiqued
"The Hangman's tale" by @vandiemenspeak
".."
26 Thu

Critiqued
"The Hangman's tale" by @vandiemenspeak
"Been a few years. During Covid I got involved with live online zoom poetry events, and i am doing a lot of events and workshops. Glad you are well. I remember your good poems, strong sound, bold imagery, imagination...v…"
January 2022
20 Thu

Anniversary
5 years of membership
July 2021
05 Mon

Received a critique
on AFRICA from @Obadiah Grey
"I miss this guy, he has reeaall talent, where's he buggered off to?"
November 2020
28 Sat

Received a critique
on Homo Erectus Speaks Out from @Dandini
"Great last line. Who doesn't, from time to time? But it's not always worth the effort...."
September 2020
07 Mon

Received a critique
on THE YEAR OF COVID from @scribbler
"is "pectinate?" I meant to say pertinent.....maybe it was spell check or maybe just a plain typo"
07 Mon

Critiqued
"Inside trading " by @Teddy15
"What you said is all true, we all agree, it is heart felt and important to share. The best song I know about this is "If I ruled the world" (best sung by Toni Bennett) It is important to express yourself, whether in a p…"
07 Mon

Received a critique
on THE YEAR OF COVID from @Obadiah Grey
"I read this whilst awaiting the results of my covid test! Hopefully I'll comment further in two weeks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Obi."
August 2020
31 Mon

Contest commendation
The Pandemic

with "THE YEAR OF COVID ".
31 Mon

First contest commendation
The Pandemic

with the poem "THE YEAR OF COVID ".
23 Sun

New follower
@Ray Whitaker
22 Sat

Received a critique
on THE YEAR OF COVID from @Ray Whitaker
"before a] a viable vaccine will be available b] enough doses will have been given nine more months... GAD."
22 Sat

Received a critique
on THE YEAR OF COVID from @lovedly
"As always history is known to repeat This will only be filed as a kinda flue you have no clue as a rhinitus 'twill pass it's a longer cold of death be bold live happily another years 93 as did folks in 1918 still just r…"
20 Thu

Critiqued
"One Small Word" by @Lavender
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20 Thu

Critiqued
"One Small Word" by @Lavender
"Great public stance about the poorly loved. Focused. Good images and sound. A professional poem I would eliminate the ellipses... And perhaps consider the syntax of the third stanza, a bit awkward concerning subject/ ve…"
20 Thu

Received a critique
on THE YEAR OF COVID from @scribbler
"Good use of near rhyme. The poem is very pectinate and I agree that this virus will leave us all changed. I just hope it doesn't change us into cattle willing to do whatever the gov't tells us to do........."
19 Wed

Received a critique
on THE YEAR OF COVID from @Ray Whitaker
"so well put, I really enjoyed reading it!"
19 Wed

Posted a poem
THE YEAR OF COVID
"The future is due sooner or later."
Open thread 20 lines
07 Fri

Critiqued
"Ambivalence" by @Peggedit
"It had so many heavy or loaded word concepts that to me it demands further exploring in a longer poem. This stanza invites me in... now I want to know all about it. ..."
05 Wed

Critiqued
"Lightning is Lavendar" by @Drew
"A nice moment to catch. I like the use of the color and the lightning and storm. . Only spot I got distracted- “futility “. Seemed awkward sounding.. Nice poem!"
04 Tue

Critiqued
"Freedom" by @poetknowit
"Yes Teddy saw the issue in a very good edit!! Outside of content is craft. You need to control the pace and rhythm of every line, place you accents so they push the beat along. Not all lines need be the same but they ha…"
03 Mon

New follower
@Tosin Atoyebi
03 Mon

Posted a poem
Homo Erectus Speaks Out
"I get up and stumble to the coffee pot."
Open thread 19 lines
July 2020
31 Fri

Posted a poem
100 days to the Election
"Sick America"
Open thread 15 lines
27 Mon

Posted a poem
to steve
"it’s not because i don’t know how to cry"
Open thread 14 lines
21 Tue

Posted a poem
America the Stupid
"... A rant after the Chris Wallace interview"
Open thread 34 lines
17 Fri

New follower
@Gracy
16 Thu

Posted a poem
We are Nobody
"(A response to an editor of the NY Times. When asked why there was no poetry among the hundreds of books in the summer reading list: “Because nobody reads it”)"
Open thread 19 lines
June 2020
08 Mon

New follower
@Edna Sweetlove
March 2020
30 Mon

Posted a poem
requiem in silence (covd-19)
"let us have a requiem in silence"
Open thread 16 lines
25 Wed

Posted a poem
bike ride in capitol hill during the coronavirus pandemic, march, 2020
"how divine to ride a bike in the gentle rain"
Open thread 15 lines
16 Mon

Posted a poem
Coronavirus, March 16, 2020
"In the universe of viruses,"
Open thread 51 lines
07 Sat

Posted a poem
In the Age of Stress
"After Tony Hoagland"
Open thread 32 lines
February 2020
27 Thu

Posted a poem
trump l’oeil of insanity (after Artaud)
"pronouncements from the Commander in Chief:"
Open thread 21 lines
05 Wed

Posted a poem
On the Cliffs of Sintra
"It is said Ulysses passed this way,"
Open thread 15 lines
April 2019
17 Wed

Posting milestone
100 poems posted
August 2018
07 Tue

Critique milestone
1,000 critiques given
June 2018
28 Thu

Most-discussed work
i really don’t care do u

18 critiques to date.
January 2018
20 Sat

Anniversary
One year of membership
May 2017
15 Mon

Highest posting month
May 2017 — 6 poems
January 2017
24 Tue

First critique offered
on "''GONE WITH THE WIND...'''" by @lovedly
20 Fri

First publication
IMAGES FROM THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE (since unpublished)
20 Fri

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 1 days later.

About Me

About me

I've been reading and writing poems for 50 years; Neopoet seems like a great way connect with other poets and enjoy the sharing. For a pen name I choose that of Eumolpus, the poet in The Satyricon by Petronius during the time of Nero; an age very similar now!
I am also a musician on nylon string guitar and I use a combination of classical, samba, and jazz playing at readings, which makes a unique poetry experience.
I speak French well, and some Spanish (enough to enjoy translation) I'm working on a book translating Paul Eluard. Poetry is the closest thing I have to a religion.

Location: Washington DC

Favorite Poets

D.Thomas

Stevens

Eliot

Blake

Rimbaud

Oliver

Delmore Schwartz

Neruda

Marti

Commings

Moore

Cohen

Merwin

Borges

Breton

Baudelaire

Sabines

Voznesensky

Eluard

Oliver

Contest Wins

Winning Submission	Contest	Contest Date
THE YEAR OF COVID	The Pandemic	5 August, 2020 – 31 August, 2020

Workshops

		Skill level:
Critique For New And Old	(syllabus)	Plunge Pool	Started 2020-01-16	Concluded
Prose as poetry: the prose-poem	(syllabus)	Plunge Pool	Started 2019-12-04	Concluded
Primal Poetry	(syllabus)	Plunge Pool	Started 2019-06-17	Concluded
Primal Poetry	(syllabus)	Plunge Pool	Started 2019-06-17	Concluded
Cellar Door	(syllabus)	Olympic Pool	Started 2019-03-27	Concluded
Implied Imagery SHOP Here we go !	(syllabus)	Splash Pool	Started 2018-11-16	Concluded
The Great, Big, All-Inclusive Critique Workshop	(syllabus)	Wading Pool, Splash Pool, Olympic Pool, Shark Pool, Plunge Pool	Started 2018-06-18	Concluded
UNFINISHED WORKS	(syllabus)	Splash Pool	Started 2018-03-28	Concluded
Poets of West Africa in English	(syllabus)	Splash Pool		Concluded
IMAGERY IN POETRY( ready to start?)	(syllabus)	Splash Pool	Started 2017-06-24	Concluded
Meter... The Workshop.	(syllabus)	Olympic Pool	Started 2017-04-29	Concluded