 Poetry: February 19, 2013 Issue [#5527] |
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This week: The Why of a Poem Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading  
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Yet through it all this much remains
I want one moment in time
When I'm more than I thought I could be...
Written by Albert Hammond,
recorded by Whitney Houston
1988 Summer Olympics
I'm honored today to be your guest host for this issue of the WDC Poetry Newsletter. Poetry is the art of expressing in words one moment in time as a conversation between the poet and listener. Yes, one rule in poetry, read all poetry aloud ~ as the journey continues.
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Greetings, writers and reader of lyric prose and verse  ,
I ask you today, is poetry relevant, does it have intrinsic meaning, or is it a mere exercise in mnemonics, a way to show of one’s prowess in lexicographical memorization?
Okay, I threw in a couple twenty-dollar words  to make a point and respond to several questions about 'trends' in poetry, its relevance in our world of words.
Poetry is: "A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme." American Heritage Dictionary
I hold that poetry’s meaning is in the conversation; being in the moment, be it past, present, or future, tangible or ephemeral. The poet paints images in words that a reader/listener can hear, smell, taste, see and envision. Maybe poetry is one epic symphony, where lyric solos and arias rise and fall in rhythmic disharmony across the mountains and valleys of space and time, transcending boundaries forged by humankind and nature.
Consider the deliberately ‘simple’ haiku form, in one breath immersion in nature’s dance while conveying a message to the listener. Then, should the listener with like mind respond, the answering breath creates a tanka, and the conversation may continue back and forth as a renga.
Consider the continuity of the poem from epic to quatrain or couplet in length, each with lyric tendencies, obvious or subtle, as the poet senses and is compelled to convey by the passion of his/her muse. And, being wordsmiths, we do name those tendencies that become familiar, so listeners can choose to stay for that particular solo of verse. For example, the sonnet, though versatile in its evolution over the past millennium, still ‘turns’ the other cheek in its myriad evolutions since the time of Petrarch, to rise up and sign the ‘blues.’
Consider too the first verse etched in stone somewhere around 2000 BCE, inscribing the oral tradition of verse to print well before Homer’s ‘Odyssey.’. Do you think the Ur poet who committed to posterity the spoken Epic of Gilgamesh, when contemplating the approach to the forest where the battle would be engaged, was sending a coded message along the march of time to be plucked as a grain of sand from the hourglass by Robert Frost after several millennia? Or did Frost, when he conscribed the following moment to paper:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one, as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
See the forest through the trees and contemplate the nature of life as a series of choices which each leave [A] Road Not Taken. The poem itself a metaphor for life – was that his intent? We don’t know; but the vivid imagery both surface and subliminal, has made of it one.
So, I believe that all poetry has meaning by its very nature, for the poet and the listener both, who carry on together the ars poetica begun millennia ago.
Notice, I say poet and listener. In poetry, there may be a variety of recognized patterns, in verse and lyric prose poetry, but I hold there is only one rule ~ to read all poetry aloud 
Write On!! - In the Moment
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
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Read (aloud, please) some lyric verse penned in myriad patterns for your listening pleasure by members of our Community. Share in the conversation, for a moment in time, with your comments (a review, perchance, and then share your own lyric images 
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Thank you for welcoming me into your home, and I wish for you joy as you write, and read, your lyric verse and prose
Remember! All poetry is to be read (and written) aloud
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Kate
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