Monkey King's Trojan Horses

[lnhammer]

Beneath the winter clouds, my heart is heavy
For my infected laptop's running slow:
While AdAware detects, it can't repair,
And Spybot finds but can't unblock the flow.
Smitfraud has coded claws that still hold on,
While Virtumonde's bit teeth will not let go.
May Heaven's Emperor damn their creators
To be some demon's entertaining show!

—5 January 2009

An explanation of the form is here. The title is because I was reading Journey to the West at the time.

---L.

Comments

[peoppenheimer]

I am interested in knowing the sources you follow for your forms. For each of the poems you post, if for information about the form you rely on a particular authority, rather than on your general knowledge, or if you know of an authority who can inform the ignorant, it would be a generous bonus if you would post same in addition to all the goodness already in your posts.

[lnhammer]

Most of the received forms, like sonnets and villanelles, are so received as to be general knowledge. Except for rhyme royal and the occasional traditional ballad measure, most of my stanzaic verse is in nonce-forms, constructed to be simple or elaborate as the occasion requires.

For lüshi, the Wikipedia article linked in the explanation is one of the few general audience statements I've found -- what I know of the form comes from introductions to the nearly a dozen anthologies of Chinese poetry I read this winter. The best single explanation is probably from Poems of the Late T'ang edited by A.C. Graham.

---L.