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*WHAT is POETRY?*

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cdlsf
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To me, poetry is the art of few words and many meanings.
"You can't stop perfection" - Meng Hao (character, main character)
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Quote by cdlsf
To me, poetry is the art of few words and many meanings.


I LIKE that...

(Today is National Poetry Day, in IRELAND!) I LOVE living in a place that has a National Poetry Day.

I've recently read "BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN - 'How I Grew Up And Tried To Be A Popstar'" by TRACEY THORN of Everything But The Girl fame and her discourses on writing are really illuminating... She says something I thought INCEREDIBLY profound but that I had NEVER CONSIDERED.

Basically, she states that the MORE personal you make the piece, (in terms of specific detail/emotion/etc.) the more widely it connects with readers/listeners.

Idiot Me would have thought that surely the opposite is true, but obviously she's quite right. (Ms Thorn took time out from her music career to do an MA Thesis on the work of Samuel Beckett!)

I'd recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Lit Crit in any form.

Here is one of TRACEY THORN'S songs from a later solo career. (She's obviously a fantastic lyric writer/melodocist/vocalist but SEE HOW the WORDS follow one another...) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9h1ooI2iMg


(Take the BEAUTIFUL MUSIC away and YOU STILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL POEM!!!)

"The afternoon handovers by the swings..." (That's a MOVIE SCENE RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!) In SIX WORDS, selected BTW with the SKILL OF A SURGEON...

THAT'S POETRY!

xx Steve
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I LIKE that...

(Today is National Poetry Day, in IRELAND!) I LOVE living in a place that has a National Poetry Day.

I've recently read "BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN - 'How I Grew Up And Tried To Be A Popstar'" by TRACEY THORN of Everything But The Girl fame and her discourses on writing are really illuminating... She says something I thought INCEREDIBLY profound but that I had NEVER CONSIDERED.

Basically, she states that the MORE personal you make the piece, (in terms of specific detail/emotion/etc.) the more widely it connects with readers/listeners.

Idiot Me would have thought that surely the opposite is true, but obviously she's quite right. (Ms Thorn took time out from her music career to do an MA Thesis on the work of Samuel Beckett!)

I'd recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Lit Crit in any form.

Here is one of TRACEY THORN'S songs from a later solo career. (She's obviously a fantastic lyric writer/melodocist/vocalist but SEE HOW the WORDS follow one another...) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9h1ooI2iMg


(Take the BEAUTIFUL MUSIC away and YOU STILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL POEM!!!)

"The afternoon handovers by the swings..." (That's a MOVIE SCENE RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!) In SIX WORDS, selected BTW with the SKILL OF A SURGEON...

THAT'S POETRY!

xx Steve






Where, I think that someone mentioned that, when he/she writes a poem she/he recalls/recollect/remembers that certain emotion/sentiment. But, to me, it's the opposite. I've tried to write poems but, most of them are and will remain unfinished. Why? Because I write them on the spur of the moment and, pretty often, I can't (re)experience the same fact, the same emotion. After the play you have plenty of time to reconsider things and, sometimes, you're influenced by other emotions and other memories. For example, you'll hear, in real life " I didn't want that, I didn't mean that" and so on. Why? Because you need to take decisions at that moment, at that place.

But, emotions come and go and, when you spend some time analyzing them, you realize that they were corrupted. A good example is the meaning of innocence. In my opinion, you can say that someone is innocent even when he/she knows the meaning of sex. Why? Because there are some things that you must experience in the first place to know what they are. How can you describe a sex scene, with plenty of words and descriptions if you don't know what emotions, feelings or perceptions are at play? At least, you must know how you feel.

You can't imagine everything. I think that Einstein saied that Imagination is more important than knowlegde. I dislike that quote. Why? Because it's cryptic and hard to deschipher. You can't imagine something that you don't know, and imagination derives from knowledge. There's no god that will show you the way, at most, you're englightned, you can 'receive' that spark but, you won't receive a whole book in your head, finished and perfectly good.

Imagination, to me, means a reproduction of an image, a ilustration.

Imagination is more important than knowledge only when you posses the basic knowledge and integrate that knowledge - when you can use that freely, withouth effort. But, even imagination can be educated.

Because you've recommended someone, I'll do the same. There are few poets that caught my attention but, one of them, is Emilie Autumn. From what I know, she's a singer that writes her own music. I really like her melodies: Gaslight, I want my innocence back (it's my favorite), Mary me ... and others.

When I read, I enjoy the trip and rarely I reflect on what I've had read. I like to catch images and a good writer, to me, is able to do that. To express him/herself and visualize everything: action, consequences, interactions. He/she can make you enjoy the trip, immerse yourself and forget about everything and anything else, you'll read that piece of work like a ravenous wolf and..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRuTCdSfgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWF14YeBXk

Good luck!
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I would like to have help on a 300 word poem that has been rejected. I think it to good to just forget about. If interested and looking at it, send me an e-mail.