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  • Re: More of my homework assignments.

    Ah, this is what you meant elsewhere by not breaking training.I see(Said he)How farYou areProgressing. O bard,It's hardTo rhyme,But I'mDigressing. As in so much else, I am self-taught in poetry (and self-defined as ''an amateur light verse writer''). I never tried such a disciplined course in writing poetry (not since high school). I just fly by ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 23, 2008

  • Parallelism in ancient Semitic poetry

    Hi Waltz, One has to get used to the rhetoric of ancient Semitic poetry before one's ear is trained to tell the difference between a translation that takes the rhetoric into account and one that doesn't. To me, the difference is salient and non-negligible. Practice with the Psalms in their original musical dress has helped me enormously in this ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 29, 2008

  • Re: "The Offense of Poetry"

    In another post, islandtime wrote: Hazard Adams (love the name, but it sounds more like he should be wrestling grizzly bears than writing books) is a Univ. of Wash. professor whose new book is titled, ''The Offense of Poetry.'' From the UW bookstore site, here's a partial description of the book: There is something offensive and scandalous ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 7, 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