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- The Australian Poet Laureate
- another quote from Robert Adamson January 31, 2010
- Three Quotes from Robert Adamson October 22, 2009
- The copyright question (2) October 7, 2009
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Sounds like a place I’ve lived, da rez. Good words Mr. Squires. 🙂
Thanks, Val. I have cleaned up the punctuation a little. I wanted to leave it with the improvised grammar to make a point about the ad hominem fallacy, that even bad grammar doesn’t equal bad logic, but that may have been one layer too much to expect from from the casual reader.
Comment by valbrussell— September 25, 2009 #
Excellent Paul, I like the reduced style, forcing a second and third reading to achieve different flows of thought, forcing the reader to look beyond the surface.
Thanks, Mark. I’m really intrigued by this idea. And will probably develop it further.
Comment by Mark William Jackson— September 25, 2009 #
wow add homonyms fantastic
Oh I am so pinching that Tipota, it is brilliant.
Comment by tipota— September 25, 2009 #
Ah this resonates – and it resonates with me. Brilliant work, just plain brilliant.
I’d love to hear a podcast of this… Any hope?
Thanks, Patrice. I should factor a regular podcasting in, two or three times week. I’ll try to remember.
Comment by Patrice— September 25, 2009 #
Love this!
Thanks, Ms Mist. I have edited in linebreaks and made some other small fiddlings.
Comment by Mental Mist— September 25, 2009 #
Very topical. 😉 Who is the drunken cartographer, I wonder?
I too would like to hear you podcast this. Would be very interested to hear how you deliver the gravity of the lines in the second stanza.
I will have to do it then, Stu, the podcast. My biggest problem with them is avoiding slipping into self-parody, but that is my biggest problem in most things. Your last two poems were supercool too.
Comment by Stu— September 25, 2009 #
I’ve just got one word to say – genius; and because I can’t stop at one I’d also like to say I prefer it with the small fiddlings (just a bit clearer to us dummies). You certainly have to beware those poisonous (backstabbing) monsters – ‘better watch out for the skin deep’ The Stranglers (was just listening to that and thought I’d throw it in).
What a beautiful song, I will have to put in the vodpod. That’s an interesting thing, the linebreaks do serve somehow as clarifiers, they do more than just add a pause. When I add linebreaks the poem becomes easier to digest in some way, hmmm,
Comment by Gabrielle Bryden— September 25, 2009 #
I would just love to hear you read “monsters arise dripping poison
appearing from silence those who dislike us”
Comment by Queen of the Universe— September 25, 2009 #
Look up. You have your finger on the down pulse, and the up.
Cool bananas,
Comment by vesper de vil— September 26, 2009 #
What an incredibly powerful poem — I love how you’re exploring the ad hominem logical fallacy, and the phrase “ad hominem nepotism nexus” is just brilliant. The whole poem is brilliant, and speaks wise words of caution about our troubled times.
Thanks Thomma Lyn. I have been thinking of doing a whole series of poems based on logical fallacies, but you know me, I probably get distracted before I finish two.
Comment by Thomma Lyn— September 26, 2009 #
crazy wild intense images here Paul and disturbing as well
powerful brilliant as usual
As usual, AP. The pressure to be powerful brilliant all the time is getting me to though. I might post a few duds this week just to get rid of it.
Comment by art predator— September 26, 2009 #
Hello, stranger from down
under. This was really beautiful, I can’t leave without telling you, also, without telling you that I enjoyed your comments on Maxine’s whose sit doesn’t let me leave comments
but
you are right
about el academia
all of it, the game element, it is strange when anything becomes institutionalized it takes away some of its light, the art, etc.
Hope you are well.
Sincerely, friend who went over to enemy turf 🙂
Harmonie! Hello again. Thankyou. Do you have another wonderful poem?
Comment by harmonie22— September 30, 2009 #