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    What good is poem?



    Poem won’t feed you
    nor poem will keep you company
    when you’re starving for some.

    Poem won’t look into your eyes
    with curiosity or tenderness,
    nor poem will cuddle you.

    Then what good is poem?
    I ask you: what good is poem?

    I ask you again: what good is poem?

    What good is poem?
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Silly Prince, one of the most well-fed here.

    I love the ending and I'm sure it can be compared to someone else, but for me it is new because you wrote it for the first time. I am thankful I have so much company.
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

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    I'm sure this is a question,
    or a statement you answer with your question (the 'good' poem and your 'good' insecurity as to its 'goodness').

    Well, I will answer because I'm egotistical and think that every question is somehow MY question of life and death (and every day feels like that SOMEWHAT).

    A good poem is one you keep between your legs...
    You don't let her/'it' run away,
    because it belongs in the house you've built below yours.

    What I mean is --
    if you write the good poem,
    it couldn't run-away/run-on,
    because it's a placid, good girl... And with ownership of itself you might NEVER AGAIN be able to claim its goodness for your own.
    Possession is a good poem
    as it shackling her to the fridge or the stove or the sink.

    It's not a crime if it's just a stupid poem.

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    What good is poem,
    I read as what is a good poem.

    Same thing maybe.
    Or maybe it's meant to be...

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    My poem
    6 foot 1, blonde, sparkly eyes
    good job, valid passport
    make me laugh sometime
    sometime make me cry
    tickle my imagination
    keep my toes warm at night

    You shopping at wrong poem store
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    I can not really figure out what you really[LIST]

    In fact poetry is a beauty, a piece of beauty. If you can agree on this statement you can find something rare in poetry.

    I do know why you got nothing or it is just sarcastically said I find everything in poetry. I keep company with poetry.

    I am a little bit introvert and I often communicate with poetry. It is a window through which I see everything.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blazeofglory View Post
    I can not really figure out what you really[LIST]

    In fact poetry is a beauty, a piece of beauty. If you can agree on this statement you can find something rare in poetry.

    I do know why you got nothing or it is just sarcastically said I find everything in poetry. I keep company with poetry.

    I am a little bit introvert and I often communicate with poetry. It is a window through which I see everything.
    Poem is written in voice of persona,
    Slavic language which does not use articles
    and is given to melodrama!
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Quote Originally Posted by Umbilical View Post
    What good is poem,
    I read as what is a good poem.

    Same thing maybe.
    Or maybe it's meant to be...
    No, no, meaning is
    good poem/bad poem
    is no different
    when you want lover!

    You know American writer name of Gertrude Stein? I borrow from her: "Poem is poem is poem is not bread, slivovitz or pretty woman or man."
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Quote Originally Posted by CdnReader View Post
    My poem
    6 foot 1, blonde, sparkly eyes
    good job, valid passport
    make me laugh sometime
    sometime make me cry
    tickle my imagination
    keep my toes warm at night

    You shopping at wrong poem store
    Brilliant, cdnreader! (Glad to see you back, 'cause I didn't see you @ the LitNet for a while.)
    I liked yours too, Prince, but why no articles or verb endings? Sound like croc in Pearls Before Swine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AuntShecky View Post
    I liked yours too, Prince, but why no articles or verb endings? Sound like croc in Pearls Before Swine.
    Croc is funny character, no? I will try to write you poem with lots of articles & verb endings too. You have favourites?

    You know of novel by Frenchman, Georges Perec, written entirely without letter "e"? Conjecture is Perec was Jew who lost entire family in Holocaust, and pronunciation of "e" and "them" in French sound very much alike so he wrote novel without them. I am planning sequel written entirely with letter "e" & nothing more. Will be big challenge, nyet?
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    I had read in my Oxford literary dictionary about the novel without the "e," but I didn't know the poignant story behind it.
    It's just wonderful that I'm learning so damn much on this
    site. I mean that sincerely.

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