(July 9, 2014 at 10:00 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I randomly put,
letters to paper,
they do not rhyme,
poetry?
What is this thing?
Life the stink of forbidden snatch?
did robins fly so low?
Limping sodden lumpy grass,
How flummoxed the rose was to find,
A little bird to flip and dive,
pudding.
Eh, look, I'm a poet or something.
I accept there is a distinct difference between poetry and song lyrics but David Bowie went through a phase where he used to cut up his lyric lines and randomly reassemble them.
Hence... ' I am an alligator, I'm a mamma-papa coming for you'
Randomness is almost always part of creativity, usually there are a few more cognitive processes between the random inspiration and the end product, but it's viable to strip that away and present those random inspirations/thoughts/ideas as poetry. Why not?
I once published a poem that had no words. Just a blank page. I figured I'd write a poem where the words don't get in the way. It pissed a lot of people off, which is fine by me. It's easy to sit inside the comfort zone and act smug about what we think we know, but the people who I personally admire are those with the stones to put something new out there and deal with whatever comes at them, good or bad.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
