Poetry

[speediva]

I love this stuff!!!

I mean, how better to phrase emotion????

First some answers on the topic: What is poetry?
-Robert Frost: A poem is an idea caught in the act of dawning.
-Dante: things that are true expressed in words that are beautiful.
-Thomas Carlyle: musical thought.
-Frost: a way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.
-Mina Loy: Poetry is prose bewitched.
-Archibald MacLeish: (exerpt from "Ars Poetica")
--------A poem should not mean
--------But be.

Funny, sad, somber...

Examples of favorites of mine:

Langston Hughes--Prayer
Oh, God of dust and rainbows, help us see
That without dust the rainbow would not be.

J.V. Cunningham--This Humanist...
This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained
Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

Fred Chappell--Narcissus and Echo
Shall the water not remember ___ Ember
my hand's slow gesture, tracing above ___ of
its mirror my half-imaginary ___ airy
portait? My only belonging ___ longing
is my beauty, which I take ___ ache
away and then return, as love ___ of
teasing playfully the one being ___ unbeing.
whose gratitude I treasure ___ Is your
moves me. I live apart ___ heart
from myself, yet cannot ___ not
live apart. In the water's tone, ___ stone?
That brilliiant silence, a flower ___ Hour,
whispers my name with such slight ___ light:
moment, it seems filament of air, ___ fare
the world become cloudswell. ___ well.

[1989 DX R]

Haiku is the best.
Set patterns, more to ponder.
Emotions told fast.

[wickedG20]

Haiku's kick ass!

I love this one:

Cry me a river
Take me down to the river
Wipe your tears away

They have so much meaning in so little words

[YogsVR4]

Allow me to be the spoil sport. I dont like poetry. Cant stand it actually. So its a dang good thing I was right when I told my English teacher that I would never need that shit (yup - used the word).

[1989 DX R]

The only poetry i like is haiku, just because i am too shallow for other shit.