Poem - 'Ars Poetica' by Archibald MacLeish
The benchmark modernist Ars Poetica – emotion is communicated through image, sensation, & experience rather than being explained or stated
He demonstrates this, rather than telling, through a succession of precise images
‘A poem should not mean, but be’
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Poem of the Day! OUTPOURING
Snake River, Idaho By Vincenzo Balistreri. On our website right now!
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Detachment
To feign a lack of care,
Is half the journey there,
To that sedate release.
The crowd adores the keen,
Desires the calm serene,
Who slip from view refined.
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Poem of the day! Burning halburn with $0 and wikipedia by Kes Maro! On our website right now!
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Poem - 'Sonnet Boom' by Tony Walsh
Today’s Ars Poetica is a tongue in cheek sonnet by Tony Walsh
If you have been following my posts you will know I am fond of a sonnet, a little fist of a poem that punches above its weight.
They are easy to appreciate but not so easy to write (well).
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One of my favorite and more personal pieces from "Thirty Years of Cardinals Calling." I hope you enjoy day 6 of #NationalPoetryMonth. katherinegotthardt.com/thirty-years...
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Majority Rule
The many's choice we swallow,
The outvoted must wallow,
For wrong, they cannot follow.
When all consent to treason,
The shared mistake unreason,
A democratic season.
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Poem - 'Personal Helicon' by Seamus Heaney
Heaney's childhood memory becomes ars poetica, connecting rural life & classical mythology, Mount Helicon regarded as the source of poetic inspiration
Words sent into the unknown
‘I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing’
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You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
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"Since I met you, my life will never be the same!"
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Polite Consensus
A nod, a smile, a bow
No one would disallow
They share the same tableau
One finds no quarrel here
No solitary fear
Consensus holds so dear
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Poem - 'Ars Poetica' by Dorothea Lasky
This rejects perfection. Goodness isn’t the point anymore
It slowly transforms pain into a declaration of purpose, to write, to ‘make my body a poem with beautiful clothes’
By the end poetry becomes survival, endurance, turning experience into language
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Poem of the day! Ungovernable by Heidi Spitzig. Catch her reading poetry amid nature.
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Ceiling Inspection
Heavens' breadth proclaimed immense,
Upward look reveals pretence,
Painted dome with sparing stars.
Cosmic bluff maintains its guise,
Stands until a glance applies,
Then its shallow craft defies.
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"Without judging, it expresses empathy over blame or disgust."
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#poemoftheday is "won't you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton
"everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed."
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Poem - 'The Thought Fox' by Ted Hughes
Poets, more other artists, love writing about what they do. Call it self indulgence, reflection on craft, or justification of form
We're so fond of it we've even named it, in Latin!
Every day for #Nationalpoetrymonth I will share my favourite Ars Poetica. Today - Ted Hughes
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Instinct’s Edge
The instinct acts with speed,
The bias pays no heed,
And leaves a muddy mess.
The instinct feels so right,
The bias claims its sight,
But bias merely errs.
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"So, I'm a little extra tired today but I wouldn't change that at all."
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Poem - 'Teachers' by Iain Crichton Smith
Continuing on the teacher theme, there is so much great imagery in this poem by Iain Crichton Smith
I am old enough to recall teachers in cloaks and to appreciate the Latin grammar joke
Remember, as an adult, meeting my own teachers and worried why they remembered my name!
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Ethical Wiretap
The eye’s a candid ear,
O’erhears what lips would fear,
And notes the guarded word.
The noise becomes a sight,
And silence, most polite,
Reveals its quiet grace.
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#poemoftheday is "Her Grimoire" by Gavriella Gilbert
"So you lie
down under the coverlet
& let her carve into you with a pair
of dragon eyes
which she insists are not brown
but hazel. Curiosity is a teenage girl
who sleeps over sometimes."
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