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  • My most abject apologies...

    Dear MaryAnn, Wouldn't you know that starting right when I got up this morning, Work in the Real World kept me from getting to this. Something told me that if I didn't do this early (like, on Wednesday night or even Wednesday afternoon), I'd get to it too late. I always regret it when I don't listen to my intuition scream at me like that. I ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008

  • An "abundance" of time I don't have...

    ...so regrettably, I have to limit myself to this: 1) This bit of free verse isn't quite as bad (IMO, at least) as the post ''How to Write a Hack Poem: Lesson #2'' suggests (however accurate that thread is about contemporary ''serious'' poetry and classical music in general). It is thoughtful, touches upon a part of the human condition without ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 29, 2008

  • Re: Poetry as song as poetry and belief systems

    Dear MaryAnn, I hope you'll catch my other reply to you -- the one that addresses why I submitted this Psalm as poetry. It covers some of the issues raised here. Again, no one in the specialties involved -- no one -- doubts that the Psalms (taking just the words alone) are poetry. No one considers them prose or even prose poetry. But biblical ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007

  • (תהללים) Thursday OPP: Psalms 24

    Thursday OPP – Psalms 24Let us begin with just the consonants of the Masoretic Text: לדוד מזמורליהוה הארץ ומלואהתבל וישבי בהכי הוא על-ימים יסדהועל-נהרות יכוננהמי-יעלה בהר יהוהומי-יקום במקום קדשונקי כפים ובר לבבאשר לא-נשא לשוא נפשיולא נשבע למרמהישא ברכה מאת יהוהוצדקה מאלהי ישעוזה דור דרשיומבקשי פניך יעקב סלהשאו שערים ראשיכםוהנשאו פתחי עולםויבוא מלך ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 12, 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