[stylist] Reflections on Bill's poem and poetry in general

[Brad Dunsé]

I think that is why we have various styles of any 
kind of art. Take a flat out modern country song 
with images and story which is very 
understandable, then look at a John Gorka folk 
song. Some are hard to find out what he's getting 
at, and yet I love to find  meaning or 
application to them when I have time. Same goes 
for poetry and even a painting. Rhyme comes into play as well.

Brad


On 2/20/2012  09:27 AM Robert Leslie Newman said...
>Bill and others
>
>Bill- Your poem is one of the types of poetry that I can actually follow
>from start to finish. And you know --- as I thought that last sentence out,
>and am putting the rest of this paragraph together, I am --- wondering what
>is in my makeup that can make it so that some poetry I can stick with and
>feel that I can actually understand and perhaps even like? Mostly, I just
>don't get what poets are getting at! Bill's type of writing constructs short
>phrases consisting of wording that is for me, clear and it doesn't like hurt
>my brain to fathom. In saying that, I mean, I usually cannot
>follow-see-understand or like most poetry. Is it --- like taste, as in what
>pleasures me? Is it a mind thing, as in that hard-wired ability to make
>mental connections which end up in the understanding of the world? Or is it
>a reflection of my world experience; the nature - nurture thing and this is
>the experience/nurture part of it which makes it so I get or cannot get and
>like poetry? Like I know there really is a very serious human thing in the
>assents of the various forms of language be it spoken or sung or written ---
>and yes, even in those other representative forms, like art as in painting,
>sculpture, etc.  Yes, I'm wanting to like poetry.
>
>Another thought- to me, most song lyrics are like poetry; more
>representative than actual story-line or conversational. Usually it is the
>notes that move me, not the words.
>
>..The house is quiet, I sit at the kitchen table, the rain patters on the
>roof, and I indulge in examination of me and life.
>
>
>
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