Dear GG, Thank you for your very helpful feedback. I have typed out your
reply as well as all the other wonderful responses to my query. As to your
question of my ethnicity-sp? I am a English, German and whatever,mutt.
(Why'd you ask? ) sending reguards, Joanne
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From: "g g" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: prose poem
> Dear Joanne,
>
> No questions is too dumb for the interested one.
> You probably already got your answer so far, but the best way would be to
try it for yourself.
> '
> What's Poetry? Each and every one us certainly have his own feeling about
it, but a common definition would certainly be expressing your own ideas,
feeling or truths along an aesthetic wavelenght or what could be agreed as
such. It would be the exact right feeling translated in the exact right
words.
>
> At least that is my definition.
>
> So you could choose to do it in verse, having the final word producing the
same or similar sound from one line to another, or any other combination.
>
> Or in prose, where it looks more like a text, writting without trying to
produce the same sound with the ends of lines, but just writting.
>
> Some ideas would be best expressed in verses, some best in proses.
>
> It's also depending of your mood of the moment.
>
> The important is to write poetry, one you could be satisfied with.
>
> Gael.
>
> ps: am I wrong if I guess you are French?
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