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Ars Poetica

Oct. 2nd, 2012 at 4:41 PM
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Ars Poetica

A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit

Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown -

A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds

A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs

Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind -

A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs

A poem should be equal to:
Not true

For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf

For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -

A poem should not mean
But be

(Archibald MacLeish)
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debriswoman: (Default)
[personal profile] debriswoman
Oct. 4th, 2012 06:42 pm (UTC)

Re: Marianne Moore, "Poetry"

Thank you, I would not class anything I write in this way, of course-more derivative narrative verse than true poetry. I somehow doubt I will take the top of anyone's head off:-)

Thanks for the link, I had not seen that book before. I have come across others who have written a fair amount of Sherlockian verse

http://www.lafterhall.com/pequod1.html

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2189136&R=2189136

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/asimov's-sherlockian-limericks/sortby/1/

But I have not read any of the books mentioned:-)

I think verse gets used at various Sherlockian Society meetings, but cannot access much on line-some seem quite secretive:-) Not sure my Seussed solitary cyclist or Clint Eastwood mix would go down too well...

I won't give up the day job just yet:-)







med_cat: (Basil in colour)
[personal profile] med_cat
Oct. 4th, 2012 06:58 pm (UTC)

Re: Marianne Moore, "Poetry"

I was not so classifying your poems (or anyone else's, per se), merely continuing the general discussion of poetry ;)

I think some of your poems would go quite well at a SH society meeting, actually ;)

And yes, those books look interesting; must see sometime if any of them, or the one I showed you, are available at public libraries.

And no, I wasn't advocating giving up the day job, merely remarking on the fact that there is _some_ opportunity for fan poetry publication...;)
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[personal profile] debriswoman
Oct. 4th, 2012 07:33 pm (UTC)

Re: Marianne Moore, "Poetry"

I know, I was teasing-and did not want to give a false impression of where my verse fits into the general scheme of things:-)

Most seem to be American or Canadian Sherlockian poets, may be it appeals more on your side of the pond. Isaac Asimov is not the first person I would have linked with the subject!

The library had not occurred to me. Ishould investigate.

Yeah, as mentioned before, there are more lucrative directions for fan fic publishing to go in...:-)
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[personal profile] med_cat
Oct. 4th, 2012 07:39 pm (UTC)

Re: Marianne Moore, "Poetry"

Of course ;)

Re: publishing, again, a general observation only ;)

And yes, Asimov had a wide range of interests; his "Black Widower" short detective stories are quite good; I'd read them in the college library...and his book of regular limericks is rather...risque; so not too sure abt his SH ones.

Interesting observation re: Sherlockian poets.
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