A Novel Idea: The Great (American) Novel (Article) - 11/24/2006 6:16:00 AM
Good discussion Dawn. Malcolm Watts
A Novel Idea: The Great (American) Novel (Article) - 11/22/2006 8:17:04 PM
The only thing about writing the great one, is how do you top yourself with the next book. ROFL
Love your articles...
Elizabeth
Poetic Dialogue: Grammar & the Arts (Article) - 11/21/2006 4:43:12 AM
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ONE DEMANDS TWO THINGS OF A POEM. FIRSTLY, IT MUST BE A WELL-MADE VERBAL OBJECT THAT DOES HONOR TO THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH IT IS WRITTEN. SECONDLY, IT MUST SAY SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT ABOUT A REALITY COMMON TO US ALL, BUT PERCEIVED FROM A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE. WHAT THE POET SAYS HAS NEVER BEEN SAID BEFORE, BUT, ONCE HE HAS SAID IT, HIS READERS RECOGNIZE ITS VALIDITY FOR THEMSELVES.”
– W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden)
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"Poetic Dialogue: Grammar & the Arts" has presented its subjects to strike opinions, and did it properly -- leaving room for discussion -- and feedback.
Any writer that uses poetic license to disform creativity dishonoring her/his language is either an iconoclast of art and logic, a joker or a member of "The MorosMoronite Academy". A true artist will only use poetic license to improve the form and the presentation of her/his work, always enriching the tools of her/his language.
In English, as in any other language, there are rules that one must follow. In poetry one must follow the language's rules, and feel free to improve any branch of the poetic art. One has license to create around, change forms, styles and concepts, but one can never forget that there is no “Poetic License” to assassinate the language and its principles.
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Poetic Dialogue: Grammar & the Arts (Article) - 10/10/2006 10:43:36 PM
I especially like some of the modern forms of poetry that have come along. Poetry is self-expression and choice of words.
Good article. Thanks for this.
Elizabeth
Poetic Dialogue: Grammar & the Arts (Article) - 10/10/2006 7:01:41 AM
I agree with you completely. Writing poetry is like doing photography - you have to know the rules but also know how to bend them for great effect. I love mixing language from old English with modern speech and inserting words from French such as Faire and extant where they fit well and say so much. Malcolm Watts Poet
Transcendence (Poetry) - 8/21/2009 8:32:09 AM
a curse we all endure and few transcend ... well written ...
Transcendence (Poetry) - 8/20/2009 6:22:57 PM
We all need our space in which to crawl and let life waltz by as we relax.
Weather (Poetry) - 5/18/2009 2:55:51 PM
Wow excellent unique style of writing
Weather conditions are always on everyone's mind
Love how your words captured such beautiful vividness
Truly a brilliant piece!!
Wising you Peace Love and Light...Yolie
Depth (Poetry) - 5/18/2009 4:26:34 AM
This poem makes me very emotional. Poems can be interpreted differently, but to me it is symbolic of loneliness.
Dawn (Poetry) - 5/18/2009 4:24:18 AM
This is an inspirational poem. This simple poem awakens every part of my mind and spirit.
Joanna Leone
Banished (Poetry) - 5/12/2009 6:28:49 PM
excellent write.
milton
Poisoned (Poetry) - 5/12/2009 10:50:25 AM
Your verses (an experience) serve as an indictment of our "modern" world, Dawn. I hope you are feeling better. Love and best wishes to you,
Regis
Banished (Poetry) - 5/12/2009 10:47:50 AM
The theme you express via your verses is a sad one but nonetheless real and not at all uncommon in this world/life. Thank you, Dawn. Love and best wishes to you,
Regis
Longing (Poetry) - 4/7/2009 7:51:41 PM
luv the structure and sentiment ...
Longing (Poetry) - 2/21/2009 7:40:36 PM
You have captured all of my attention and taught me a lesson in poetry, Dawn. Truly a lovely and meaningful offering. Love and best wishes to you,
Regis
Undefined (Poetry) - 2/20/2009 8:16:03 AM
I am a Pisces swimming in one Aquamarine galaxy where death doesn't exist, but where vibrations disclose secrets, swimming incessantly among celestial bodies trying to escape the shark's sharp teeth of aging.
Georg
Imbue (Poetry) - 2/20/2009 8:10:13 AM
Imbue gives us with its illustration and abstract picture of keys, quite a few of them, offering us like a puzzle the opportunity to open only one true door where there wait only one true love.
Too many keys, too many doors, too many loves, but only one is true for all of them.
Georg
Death Replies to Emily Dickinson (Poetry) - 2/20/2009 8:07:03 AM
The clandestine rendezvous where words weren't said, boudoirs where the morning sun is not yet putting its fingers inside ruffed bed silks and awake lovers of distant desires and intimate fires.
Death replies to Emily Dickinson is a rebuke to a tragic demented wish with wishes pregnant with hope.
Georg
The Collection (Poetry) - 2/20/2009 8:01:21 AM
Shattered pieces of crafted figurines shouldn't not be the home of ghosts, or hope, or freezing and alone thoughts, because they are passports so the author can enter another world we are not invited to see, like a mirage, but an existing one that allude us.
Fetishes wrapped in words, like those empty spaces left by the crafted symbols that went to their final rendezvous.
Georg
Asymptote (Poetry) - 2/19/2009 7:52:17 AM
The poem is the straight line with the illustration picture being the tangent, with an air of the top end of a violin giving a softly hight C, like a spider's tread to captivate yet not making the reader a prisoner.
Georg
Depth (Poetry) - 2/19/2009 7:47:40 AM
A sleeping maiden, wearing only perfume and a couple of dreams, innocently offering enchanted deeps filled with life elixir.
Concaved, like a chalice holding a few sips of a special wine.
Georg
Abstraction (Poetry) - 2/19/2009 7:44:11 AM
As a painter, colors talk to me inside my head, sometimes in abstract mode, others in classical ones, but always surprising my brushes with gray of sadness or with blushing reds.
But the abstraction of the painter is solid while for the observer will remain an enigma.
Georg
Dawn (Poetry) - 2/19/2009 7:40:33 AM
When you had gone all night writing because inspiration is so gossamer made that if you don catch then and there your pages next day will remain empty, yes, when you had gone one febrile literary outburst and dawn hits your window...a kind of warm peace crawls all over your skin, and then, you are at peace.
Dawn does it to you.
Georg
Longing (Poetry) - 2/19/2009 5:06:21 AM
Yes, the love that exists within all
very nicely said
Bill
Unrehearsed (Poetry) - 2/18/2009 4:10:19 PM
I love this one and the little cues given between verses as if we are all a part of a mini play of immense drama. Well done, a good format for you.
hugs
fee
The Collection (Poetry) - 2/18/2009 4:08:04 PM
The lines of this poem pull at the thought processes makin me think which is what good poetry should really do...that and grip the emotions which this one also manages...well done.
hugs
fee
Dawn (Poetry) - 2/18/2009 4:05:24 PM
I am just starting to read your delightful poetry and this one hit me like a delightful stretch like feeling you get when you smile first thing in morning knowing it could be the start of anything.
fee
Longing (Poetry) - 2/18/2009 4:03:33 PM
This transcends the beauty of the body for the beauty of what's inside and that is sooooo much longer lasting.
Fee
Poisoned (Poetry) - 2/18/2009 7:27:08 AM
Dementia...oh! dear dementia that allows us to escape the suffocating world of "normality".....
The poem "Poisoned" show us the many facets of that mysterious diamonds that human beings are.
Georg
Dawn (Poetry) - 2/18/2009 12:00:39 AM
You've described perfectly my favorite time of day.
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