Villanelle : Should one reorder genuine vers libre entire
Should one reorder genuine vers libre entire
Pull Pound down tear veil off event horizon holes
All to make for one's own sacre the pur sang lyre
Invent a machine feed it Homeric fire
No enjambement perfect rhyme rhythm metre folds
Should one reorder genuine vers libre entire
Whoever tops the charts which poem's ire
Shines through Apollo's defiant mien Zeus scolds
All to make for one's own sacre the pur sang lyre
Ne'er short the naive champion of the ephemère
Paid up club member the mutual backscratcher roles
Should one reorder genuine vers libre entire
Machine that thinks can it rasa taste inspire
Mete out criteria merit sound sense enfolds
All to make for one's own sacre the pur sang lyre
Art of artifice best profits business liar
Poets at the stakes burn to free the poems' souls
Should one reorder genuine vers libre entire
All to make for one's own sacre the pur sang lyre
Hi Senor Don Ron! Bonjour! Guess you understand this bit of French? You critical standard for evaluating poetry: '
'I believe the test of good poetry is whether it is worth reading or not. The cream rises to the top.'
Who has the time to read (not including yourself) what is worth reading??
After painting (ancient cave paintings: Lascaux, Alta-Mira, etc., hieroglyphics/Egyptian which are a mixture of both art forms), poetry is the most ancient artistic expression in all languages, and rules, conventions and traditions have developed - for mnemonic's sake -
both sound and sense to cope mainly with harmonic (and even cacaphonic) repetition; otherwise there would be chaos. There's a norm in a given situation, and one may deviate from it for effect, but the poet cannot use "liberty" as a motivation for abandoning all the "rules" that have come into being in the poietic traditions.
I notice that in your critical practice in AD, you do play to the "main auditorium" and the "galleries". Every good wish. Wignesan
Excuse my understanding of French, but I believe you are writing about challenge that poets have to meet the requirements of established poetry, so-called experts and expertise, going back to the Greeks.
I believe the test of good poetry is whether it is worth reading or not. The cream rises to the top.
Dear readers, this is my third book of poems, and inside are a special collection of what have turned out to be not only MY personal favorites, but also the favorites of many of YOU. Some of these have never been available in print before...
Dear readers, this is my third book of poems, and inside are a special collection of what have turned out to be not only MY personal favorites, but also the favorites of many of YOU. Some of these have never been available in print before...
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'I believe the test of good poetry is whether it is worth reading or not. The cream rises to the top.'
Who has the time to read (not including yourself) what is worth reading??
After painting (ancient cave paintings: Lascaux, Alta-Mira, etc., hieroglyphics/Egyptian which are a mixture of both art forms), poetry is the most ancient artistic expression in all languages, and rules, conventions and traditions have developed - for mnemonic's sake -
both sound and sense to cope mainly with harmonic (and even cacaphonic) repetition; otherwise there would be chaos. There's a norm in a given situation, and one may deviate from it for effect, but the poet cannot use "liberty" as a motivation for abandoning all the "rules" that have come into being in the poietic traditions.
I notice that in your critical practice in AD, you do play to the "main auditorium" and the "galleries". Every good wish. Wignesan
I believe the test of good poetry is whether it is worth reading or not. The cream rises to the top.
Ron