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  • Re: To MaryAnn

    I do not see the entire bible as poetic, certainly. I see Psalms as poetry because it brings forth for me the same emotional and spiritual experience I feel in Wordsworth's Intimations, for example. And yet you say: The poet is at heart a musician. The musician, a poet. Which is precisely why the whole Hebrew Bible is poetic (or rather ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007

  • Re: poetry or song lyrics?

    MaryAnn: Hi White Rabbit, I was wondering why you classify this psalm or any of the other psalms as poetry. From your introductory paragraphs, I can see how the rules and conventions of the psalms' original Hebrew version are relevant to song lyrics. And as you know, the etymology of the word psalm reinforces the concept of a psalm as a ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007

  • Illuminating New Translation of Psalms

    I find that reverting to the original meaning of the Hebrew text, explaining it's multiple meanings per word or term, then extrapolating that into the possibly more intentional translation is both illuminating and freeing, all at once. To read the text with a purer translation, especially as these words would mean to us now, removes the esoteric ...
    Posted to Culturebox by mizk on October 1, 2007

  • More aptly, it aims for the moon and hits the neighbor's dog

    Hi MaryAnn, This discussion (here and elsewhere) is rapidly developing into something that requires more time and thought than I am able to give it. And that's too bad, because I'm interested in literally anything and everything that helps me understand better how the world works. But ''here goes nothing...'' My screwball quip in the title is ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 14, 2007

  • Re: Ah, a teacher who shouldn't be one...

    Good morning mg, Thanks for the digression, and for the digression within the digression; it explains much about why you appreciate the poem. Of course, for your Chase password you could've used the idea (had you only known) of a creative writer I know: the Latin version of an English quip by one of his characters, ''I think therefore I am ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 13, 2007