A few friends with guitars at the ready and a couple of bottles of Georgian wine, and we could discuss your ‘writing versus verses’ for many hours into the night. Thus passed my youth…
Much love,
D
Dolly –
That must have been a wonderful youth ๐
โค
David
Oh it was, communist regime notwithstanding.
๐ป
Your landay is spot on! There is so much controversy over micro-poetry with some saying it isn’t poetry. I think poetry should be accessible. The micro-poetry is popular in this social media climate with tweets and snapchat and word limits….
yeah, it’s sort unavoidable… but I think… well… I don’t know what I’ll do when 2022 rolls around. I guess we’ll live and see ๐
โค
David
Ha! Thatโs awesome, David! โค๏ธ
๐ค Jeff – thank you! ๐ค
You’re welcome, David! Always, always. ๐๐
I do feel that way sometimes myself. (K)
๐ Kerfe, I feel we understand one another ๐
We do have a lot of the same questions.
I like John Wainโs definition of poetry โฆ itโs as good as any!
It definitely made me think, Monika ๐
Thanks โค
David
This is charming David.
๐ Priscillia ๐
Interesting quote.
๐ Angela ๐
Lol. The quote makes me directly think about the whole concept of poetry.
Me too.
Obscure poet, or Cured crow-er
I feel inclined to decry poetsโ | reliance on spelling their poetry with an “I”: cocks crowing.
Which is to say, I would agree with John Wainโs definition of poetry, if he personally perceived the first-person pronoun as his egoโs cockadoodledo-er of poetry, and his ego as his plumage, poetic as the emperor’s new clothes and Don Quixote’s armor. But I have no idea whether Wain thought about ‘I,’ much less ‘me’ or ‘my,’ as do I. ๐
Truth be told, I hadn’t heard of him either until I found this quote, which amused me… but I found his poetry online, and I quite enjoyed it – https://www.johnwain.com/JohnWain.pdf
Anyway, I doubt anyone cogitates quite like you do, CES ๐
“Quite” allows for as many unique patterns of thought as there are unique fingerprints, I suppose. Thank you for the link, David, I too quite enjoyed Wain’s poems., ๐
Clever!
๐ Punam ๐
I think John Wain got poetry mixed up with politics. Sure, some poetry is purely aesthetic and it doesn’t have a clear message… not that I personally have any problem with that . But some poetry takes a huge idea and condenses it into a raindrop – crystal and exquisite. I have to admit I do take exception to this quote.
He didn’t say that there’s no other kind of poetry, did he?
This is the sort of conversation that requires a long night, good friends around a table and hopefully a pot of Turkish coffee. May the teeth shine bright in their smiles and the glints twinkle in their lamp lit eyes.
The Skeptic's Kaddish ๐ฎ๐ฑ 
A few friends with guitars at the ready and a couple of bottles of Georgian wine, and we could discuss your ‘writing versus verses’ for many hours into the night. Thus passed my youth…
Much love,
D
Dolly –
That must have been a wonderful youth ๐
โค
David
Oh it was, communist regime notwithstanding.
๐ป
Your landay is spot on! There is so much controversy over micro-poetry with some saying it isn’t poetry. I think poetry should be accessible. The micro-poetry is popular in this social media climate with tweets and snapchat and word limits….
yeah, it’s sort unavoidable… but I think… well… I don’t know what I’ll do when 2022 rolls around. I guess we’ll live and see ๐
โค
David
Ha! Thatโs awesome, David! โค๏ธ
๐ค Jeff – thank you! ๐ค
You’re welcome, David! Always, always. ๐๐
I do feel that way sometimes myself. (K)
๐ Kerfe, I feel we understand one another ๐
We do have a lot of the same questions.
I like John Wainโs definition of poetry โฆ itโs as good as any!
It definitely made me think, Monika ๐
Thanks โค
David
This is charming David.
๐ Priscillia ๐
Interesting quote.
๐ Angela ๐
Lol. The quote makes me directly think about the whole concept of poetry.
Me too.
Obscure poet, or Cured crow-er
I feel inclined to decry poetsโ | reliance on spelling their poetry with an “I”: cocks crowing.
Which is to say, I would agree with John Wainโs definition of poetry, if he personally perceived the first-person pronoun as his egoโs cockadoodledo-er of poetry, and his ego as his plumage, poetic as the emperor’s new clothes and Don Quixote’s armor. But I have no idea whether Wain thought about ‘I,’ much less ‘me’ or ‘my,’ as do I. ๐
Truth be told, I hadn’t heard of him either until I found this quote, which amused me… but I found his poetry online, and I quite enjoyed it – https://www.johnwain.com/JohnWain.pdf
Anyway, I doubt anyone cogitates quite like you do, CES ๐
“Quite” allows for as many unique patterns of thought as there are unique fingerprints, I suppose. Thank you for the link, David, I too quite enjoyed Wain’s poems., ๐
Clever!
๐ Punam ๐
I think John Wain got poetry mixed up with politics. Sure, some poetry is purely aesthetic and it doesn’t have a clear message… not that I personally have any problem with that . But some poetry takes a huge idea and condenses it into a raindrop – crystal and exquisite. I have to admit I do take exception to this quote.
He didn’t say that there’s no other kind of poetry, did he?
This is the sort of conversation that requires a long night, good friends around a table and hopefully a pot of Turkish coffee. May the teeth shine bright in their smiles and the glints twinkle in their lamp lit eyes.
Your comment is, itself, quite poetic ๐