There are days
when I spend a lot of time
thinking about things
Like today
Today I was thinking
‘Why is it
that I often write
on a Saturday morning
some words
that I then format
into a column
as if it was some
important point-making
and free-ranging
–but is often frankly pointless
(but still free-ranging)–
kind of verse?
I mean really
it could be posted as
a normal paragraph
if there was actually
any point in writing
it at all’
This kept me occupied
until now
when I published it
as usual
without any conclusions
or rhymes
or reasons
Thank you for visiting Scribblans today. Sorry it probably wasn’t very good this time.
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Yes it could. Well, try it if you don’t believe me then.
Ha, you’ve just illustrated something I’ve said for a long time: the difference between poetry and prose is punchy editing. The art is in the punch. I once took a radiologist’s report of my MRI brain scan results and edited it into a poem; best thing I never wrote. At least your work is original!
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Yes, probably original as in ‘No one else would be bothered to try it.’ 😉
I’ve got my brain MRI slides around here somewhere as well. It doesn’t half freak people out when you show them your profile but as if you’d been sawn in half, or halfway though an eyeball.
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I’m another who looks at these columns of randomly arranged words perversely spattered across a page and some see it as grandiloquent verse. I just see crap editing. Some see art, some mere artifice.
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You know really good ones when you read it (or hear it being read).
But you won’t find them here.
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I agree, in one way. GREAT free verse works, but anything less don’t work, at least fer me. We are all individual in our thinking, but I do admit (submit?) read a bit of free verse, and it gets my poetry slam, mostly.
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Better not come here on a Saturday then. 😉
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What
beautiful poetry the
free-verse
style is amazing in that
People actually think
They have done some-
thing grand.
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As my answer to Obbs really Herb.,. good free verse can be amazing.
But mine isn’t.
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Well, I don’t know. I’m sorry, I’m of the opinion of free-verse that it is amazing that anyone would publish it. Exceptions are few and far between. But I are not eddykated very good.
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Heres an all too free verse acrostic, if I may?
Bounteous blooming words,
Uncontrolled,, flowing free and unrestrained,
Laid out in
Laboriously spaced out contrived casuality,
Sentences displayed and arrayed
Haphazardly yet in pompous stylised pre-fabricated forms,
Irritating ill-conceived, irksome, indubitably
Twadlle.
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Indeed…
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