| Amount of texts to »poetry« | 43, and there are 43 texts (100.00%) with a rating above the adjusted level (-3) |
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| Average Rating | 2.605 points, 2 Not rated texts |
| First text | on Apr 18th 2000, 13:29:20 wrote piprr about poetry |
| Latest text | on Jul 1st 2014, 22:53:34 wrote ugly duckling about poetry |
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on Oct 17th 2000, 06:40:31 wrote
on Jul 1st 2014, 22:53:34 wrote |
Poetry is condensed prose, boiled down in a stock pot. It is the demi-glace of
literature, strong and flavorful, and best taken in small doses.
A century ago, a respectable subdivision of literature (see Poe, Longfellow, Whitman, et. al.); profundity in its simplest form.
Today, thoughts that snore in words that rock.
Poetry should not be so obtuse that you need a master's degree to appreciate or understand it.
Poetry need not rhyme. Particularly if you're dealing with words like orange, silver, purple and month.
The explosion of mutilation of language, often known as 'free-verse poetry', is the work of people who would play tennis without a net.
I try to see the poetry in people. But if I ever say anything, I sound like a fortune cookie. Some things are better kept in the mind.
Prose = words in the best order
Poetry = the best words in the best order
Infinity = the very last poem in the most perfect language imaginable...
Thank Wordsworth for the first two contributions, myself for the third....ha! ha! among the trumpets, indeed!
Cowgirl Poets write from the heart. You can't get anymore real than when a Cowgirl Poet writes about her day. Debra Coppinger Hill writes hard hitting Cowgirl poems about her life on the 4DH Ranch. It all makes sense. It's REAL poetry...not just a bunch of words strung together posing as poetry.
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