Think Outside the Lament

Sigh. Being a poet is hard, Lewis Carroll's pose seems to say. Reading poems on my iPhone hurts my eyes!

One of the big themes of Big Bang Poetry is about thinking outside the box, outside the square poem if you rather. And thinking outside the lament. Thinking outside the dire circumstances, the hand-wringing, the melodrama.

And most of all, thinking outside of your own rationalizations about who you are and what you do as a writer and poet.

For the inaugural poem of this site, Lewis Carroll's "A Square Poem" is apropos on all these levels. Especially if you consider that "she" might be your perfect reader.

A Square Poem

I often wondered when I cursed,
Often feared where I would be—
Wondered where she'd yield her love,
When I yield, so will she.
I would her will be pitied!
Cursed be love! She pitied me …

Lewis Carroll, in the public domain