Essays detailing studied influences (not inspiration) and the how and why they are used in your poetry. Said another way: why you study certain influences and how your studies benefit your poetry writing. The final exercises for Level 3 Studied Poets who have participated in the _Simply Poetry Series of Six Sister Projects_. By invitation only.
There is no submission limit, only the broad theme is requisite. Enjoy the various perspectives on poetry written by your fellow _Simply Poetry Series of Six_ seriously studied, webooking poets.
_Good Intentions_
The best any can do -
Try, try, try and forget to cry
when the try bruises
and flies back ugly
in someone else's eye.
~gonzodave
"Do not forget that a poem, although it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language-game of giving information.
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There is no submission limit, only the broad theme is requisite. Enjoy the various perspectives on poetry written by your fellow _Simply Poetry Series of Six_ seriously studied, webooking poets.
_Good Intentions_
The best any can do -
Try, try, try and forget to cry
when the try bruises
and flies back ugly
in someone else's eye.
~gonzodave
"Do not forget that a poem, although it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language-game of giving information."
_Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel
"Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. (Philosophie dürfte man eigentlich nur dichten.)"
_Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
"Les autres forment l'homme, je le recite."
[Others form man, I tell of him."]
_Michel Montaigne (Essays, Vol III)
"Among the functions of the soul, there are some of a lower and meaner form; he who does not see her in those inferior offices as well as in those of nobler note, never fully discovers her; and, peradventure, she is best shown where she moves her simpler pace. The winds of passions take most hold of her in her highest flights; and the rather by reason that she wholly applies herself to, and exercises her whole virtue upon, every particular subject, and never handles more than one thing at a time, and that not according to it, but according to herself. Things in respect to themselves have, peradventure, their weight, measures and conditions; but when we once take them into us, the soul forms them as she pleases. Death is terrible to Cicero, coveted by Cato, indifferent to Socrates. Health, conscience, authority, knowledge, riches, beauty, and their contraries, all strip themselves at their entering into us, and receive a new robe, and of another fashion, from the soul; and of what color, brown, bright, green, dark, and of what quality, sharp, sweet, deep, or superficial, as best pleases each of them, for they are not agreed upon any common standard of forms, rules, or proceedings; every one is a queen in her own dominions. Let us, therefore, no more excuse ourselves upon the external qualities of things; it belongs to us to give ourselves an account of them. Our good or ill has no other dependence but on ourselves. 'Tis there that our offerings and our vows are due, and not to fortune: she has no power over our manners; on the contrary, they draw and make her follow in their train, and cast her in their own mold."
_Michel Montaigne (The father of essays; noted for his study of self, free thought, and his influence on Rene' Descartes.)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montaigne/Best regards,
~gonzodave
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