yes Arthur, I think the internet is vital for poets nad might have been
invented for poetry (like you know ceefax subtitles were invented for deaf
people). it means no one need be isolated by snobby estabishment not
accepting them. And there's room for us all.
SallyE
on 27/5/02 8:30 pm, arthur seeley at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I know what I would have done without the Internet. sat down and become a
> cabbage.
> I retired a while ago and did nothing but mill around doing some part time
> lecturing at College and generally running downhill fast. My 4 year old
> Grandson convinced me I needed to stop smoking and instead of doing that
> while watching my garden grow I went out onto the Internet,
> I had been until then an isolate in poetic terms, I knew no poets met none
> read lots wrote a little. I discovered the world is full of poets and better
> still full of poetry. I have written over a hundred poems since I stopped
> smoking 19 months ago.
> Porn and poetry that's the Internet; life in microcosm!!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:19 PM
> Subject: New poem: for Deborah
>
>
> For Deborah and all internet poets
> [OK folks you might not know Deborah but it shouldnt matter]
>
> Wouldnąt Dylan Thomas have loved the internet
> wouldnąt Tennyson have hated it
> wouldnąt Homer have made use of it
> wouldnąt Vergil have been afraid of it
> but used it anyway
> wouldnąt Sylvia have had something to say
> to the whole world
> wouldnąt Ted have said
> internet you are only a daffodil
> then wondered what he meant by that
> in his strange dramatic poetry mode
> wouldnąt all his women have succumbed
> Ted and Sylvia will you leave us alone
> to be poets
> Wouldnąt Herrick have loved the internet
> never mind his rusticated village
> he could have gone on being important
> as we all go on being important
> when we have seen through the metropoles
> and adopted out own particular countrysides
> wouldnąt Browning have had theories about the internet
> woulnąt Elizabeth B have utilised it
> wouldnąt Hopkins have developed our secret vice
> wouldnąt Stevie have laughed
> wouldnąt Wordsworth have internationalised
>
> wouldnąt Coleridge have overdosed
> wouldnąt they
> what would Shakespeare have done
> well really he was a dramatist
> stuff being a poet
> he did that in his spare time
> like us
> well wouldnąt they
> couldnąt I go on
>
> you started me off on this Deborah
> by writing a poem I was sure Dylan Thomas wouldąve liked
>
> in beat mode
> Sally Evans
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