[New-Poetry] Re: Definition

[Anny Ballardini]

Happy Birthday!

*This expansive New Moon in Aquarius is a time of endings and beginnings. As
a Solar Eclipse it chips away at old notions of competition to reframe our
roles within an updated view of community. Bountiful Jupiter designs
innovative models in which self-interest and the greater good mesh
harmoniously and we recognize that what binds us together is much greater
than what drives us apart.*

*Have a great month!*
Jeff Jawer, Publisher, StarIQ.com
  ...because timing is everything!
   http://www.StarIQ.com <http://www.stariq.com/>


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> Barry Spacks wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Bob wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Excellence in poetry comes from (1) the expression of something
>>> importantly true for most people; (2) words that are reasonably clear
>>> for most people but also raised above common prose through uncliched use
>>> (in the view of most engagents) of various poetic devices and/or poetic
>>> forms; (3) compactness, and (4) something else of sufficient size that
>>> few or no other poems have such as uncommon diction, grammar, expressive
>>> modality (e.g., mathematics, visual art), and imagery.
>>>
>>>    The day has come...I AGREE with Bob!!
>>
>>   astounded,
>>
>>   Barry
>>
> Something's going on.  I hate to say astrology, but I'm an Aquarius, and
> we're at the cusp of that or into it--and here Judy and Barry agree with me
> AND I was on the winning side in a doubles match in a seniors tennis league
> yesterday for the FIRST time this season!  (The season is into its tenth
> week of weekly matches, but I've only played in two others, so it's not that
> much of a big deal, but the way I'd been playing . . .  And we played the
> top team in the league!)
> So: the stars messed with your eyesight or something, Barry.  When Pisces
> gets here, you'll realize your error.  For now, though: thanks.
>
> --Bob
>
>
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