GrimEden In reply to inspiredimperfection [2009-08-03 13:34:34 +0000 UTC]

It's all there, just in the scrapbook.

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inspiredimperfection In reply to GrimEden [2009-08-04 07:46:51 +0000 UTC]

ah, i guess all you male beings like stashing stuff in the garage

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GrimEden In reply to inspiredimperfection [2009-08-05 00:11:41 +0000 UTC]

Well, I do have an ulterior motive for putting them there.

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inspiredimperfection In reply to GrimEden [2009-08-06 05:27:37 +0000 UTC]

hmmm..now im curious

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GrimEden In reply to inspiredimperfection [2009-08-04 14:50:13 +0000 UTC]

It seemed the right place to put all my work, but it's a little more disorganized than I would prefer.

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GrimEden In reply to ivre [2009-04-02 04:04:32 +0000 UTC]

Compared to them I'm a terrible hack! Must. Repress. Insecurities.

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ivre In reply to GrimEden [2009-04-02 21:10:20 +0000 UTC]

Compared to them you're alive.

Big advantage.

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GrimEden In reply to ivre [2009-04-02 21:48:37 +0000 UTC]

ehehehe

Too true.

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GrimEden In reply to AlecBell [2009-03-08 23:16:33 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. I enjoyed the sentiment of the piece a great deal, as well as the execution.

I take the contrasting approach of the haiku because, while I am fond of form, I find form a method to be remolded by each person instead of stamped like a cookie cutter upon dough. I don't mean to claim following a received form is bad, but I enjoy creative variations - especially when there is a cultural or personal reason to do so. Although, I do appreciate the technical limitations and flexing of skill required in adhering to past traditions and superbly executing them.

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AlecBell In reply to GrimEden [2009-03-09 06:30:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks again.

The question of for is always a question of "what's in a name?"

Thus both Shakespeare and Auden wrote sonnets that conform to the model in respect of the number of lines and the rhyme scheme. Both showed themselves to be masters of the form. But you couldn't mistake an Auden sonnet for a Shakespeare one. Both are rich in "creative variations"

For me the point of a form is the limitations it imposes. An "irregular Haiku (or Tanka)" is, from my perspective, of interest only if it is a translation fro the Japanese, when considerations of language could make strict conformity impossible. Some small variation might be acceptable, but if it were totally irregular, I'd be inclined to describe as an Imagist poem.

These matters are not life threatening, but I thought a statement of the foral case might be useful.

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GrimEden In reply to AlecBell [2009-03-10 02:23:02 +0000 UTC]

"completely irregular" *laugh* There's something about that coupling.

True enough, form doesn't restrict creative variations. I've been experimenting with open verse more and more of late, and was feeling burdened thinking about meter and rhyme every time I penned a few lines. I still think about what form a piece could fit into when I write, but, having found my recent attempts at form to be flaccid, I concluded I couldn't make things worse by bending the rules a bit (pr trying to reinterpret the rules).

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inspiredimperfection In reply to GrimEden [2009-03-18 07:15:57 +0000 UTC]

I wouldnt say your attempts have been flaccid. but yea, bending things just might do you good

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TimeFlies In reply to SparrowSong [2009-03-03 18:35:09 +0000 UTC]

Haha, that's exactly what happened when my essay on Ginsberg's haiku got a DD. But in many ways it's a good thing when people make such statements, as it gives us a chance to teach them exactly what the truth of the matter is.

While we can never hope to go to them and make them listen, if they first come to us the chance that they'll pay some attention to the response is much greater.

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GrimEden In reply to SparrowSong [2009-03-03 17:07:56 +0000 UTC]

Ahh, who cares about the opinionated ignorant? Why educate him, a hard task indeed, when you can mock him. Wait ... I totally didn't say that. Where's the delete button on these posts?!?

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SparrowSong In reply to GrimEden [2009-03-03 17:38:38 +0000 UTC]

Ha! I might agree with you, were it my job on-site to handle lit education resources.

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GrimEden In reply to mirageode [2009-01-29 17:21:55 +0000 UTC]

I do. I have a critique for you too. It is a bit long and I have to transcribe it from paper to computer, but I'll devote time to it today.

I also need to dig out my camera ....

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mirageode In reply to GrimEden [2009-01-31 01:38:41 +0000 UTC]

oh. thank you. i thought you'd forgotten.

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GrimEden In reply to mirageode [2009-02-01 07:08:22 +0000 UTC]

Nope. I'm just lazy. I was hoping someone would type it up for me after I wrote it down in one of my school notebooks.

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GrimEden In reply to Lit-Twitter [2009-01-26 01:21:33 +0000 UTC]

I don't have any expectations, so I'm sure you will not.

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