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Click hereSuch beauty in this poetry--almost too much to hold.
Vocabulary speaks. I understand that form
should be constructed by the rules, but it is cold
and analytical finding the words, and being warm
is poetry--the presence, not the absence, of the thing.
Vocabulary speaks. I understand that form
is just a frame to drape the phrases, make them ring,
so somewhere someone reads and touches you.
Is poetry the presence, not the absence of the thing?
Does it fill empty spaces gaping in the reader, too?
If beauty is but artifice, I might make it to feel,
so somewhere someone reads and touches you.
Does calculated cause make the effect any less real?
There are so many things I've never felt. I do not know
if beauty is but artifice, I might make it to feel
an echo of a truth I've never held in my embrace.
You read--I am, although you've never seen my face.
Such beauty in this poetry--almost too much to hold
should be constructed by the rules, but it is cold.
You've already given me some good tips on forms and I've been reevaluating my work. :)
inspiring talent too. this was wonderful ange, what more can be added to what the others have said.
Two things I hate; forms, and poems about poetry (most of the time).
Listen up, dear children, Randi Grail told you what to avoid, Angeline's gonna tell you what it is all about.
And she does it usin' a friggen' form. GOD I LOVE IT!!!!!!
And too think "Terzanelle" almost scared me anyway.
OK, Ange, I think this is the third thing I said should be required reading before submitting anything.
Thermometer does not go high enough.
....said everything I want to say -- read her comment and attach my name, sister. :rose: