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dna erehw si eht nuf ni taht?
better to Sometimes it's have just fun.
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fun If it's.
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all Like things remember important to.
It's great to see so many of you experimenting with some of the wilder forms that poetry has to offer. This poem seems to be making up its own experimental form, though I can see connections to others. The idea here, as I see it anyway, is to challenge the idea that orderly words are at the essence of poetry. "Nonsense is not pointless," and scrambled words are not nonsense but rather other-sense, and really not so other: without having to work so hard, my mind was able to put these lines back into orders that are mostly grammatical and straightforward. I think the poem is aware of that and playing with how our minds are so attuned to search for order.
ReplyDeleteIt was fun for me to slip and slide on these slippery, warping lines, and the only line that stood out to me as maybe in need of editing or revision is the line about how it sometimes it's better just to have fun. I think that part should go unsaid. It's more fun without it.
I liked this. Are you interested in workshopping it in class? It might make for an interesting discussion.
Linda, this is AWESOME. Wow, I did not think I would like something like this, but you absolutely proved me wrong. I feel like I learned something, reading this poem and being able to udnerstand it. Also, I was reminded of Calvin and Hobbes, for some reason. Now I have to ponder why that is. This is super super cool.
ReplyDeleteI surprisingly really enjoyed this! I dont usually vibe with poetry that does not obey conventional logic, but I see how this poem sort of has a logic of its own. Curious how you came up with this.
ReplyDeleteThis was so fun to read, and a little bit of a struggle for my brain to make sense of. I really liked it! It was so fun and playful.
ReplyDeleteThis is so awesome, Linda. I think this was a really cool idea and I loved that you pressed up against the barriers of what makes a poem a poem. like I never would've thought to do that or to even consider something like this a poem. but I love that it is and I love that you came up with this. awesome job!
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