I have no one to blame for this but myself. I wrote some time ago, no doubt giddy from a promising beginning to another post-season, that if the Red Wings found themselves in the Cup finals, I would incorporate the sonnet into the poetic playoff predictions.
Sonnets, it turns out, are fucking hard to write at [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Sports and poetry are natural bedfellows’
May 30, 2009
Poetic Playoff Prophecy Vol. III: Final-ly
April 29, 2009
Poetic Playoff Prophecy Vol. II: Round Two, Fight!
Well, the first round somehow went mostly as predicted by my seat-of-the-pants verse. We went 7/8 on overall predictions with the Flyers over the Penguins in seven games being the one we totally whiffed on.
No matter. In my own egotistical little world, I think this gem, made before a single playoff puck had been dropped, [...]
April 15, 2009
NHL Poetry: First-round playoff edition
We’re in the playoffs, primed for a cup or a monumental choke job – there’s really not a lot of middle ground for the Wings anymore – and it’s time to make some predictions, through everyone’s favourite forms of lazy-man poetry, the haiku and limerick. When we get to the second round, I promise, I’ll do sonnets.