Your yoku works beautifully, Stephen.
But pardon me for being old-fashioned, fighting a losing battle, & all
that, but shouldn't that be 'imply'?
Doug
On 19-May-05, at 3:24 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> *
> Tender is the Real
>
> Two boxes full of Blue Smoke
>
> **
>
> Yoku (def.): Two parallel lines of indeterminate words, syllables or
> any
> other measure of count. The Yoku conjoins disparate - or elements of no
> obvious transparent relation - into a compositional whole in which both
> lines _infer_ or give a value to one another in a manner that cannot be
> stated. The whole that may be considered similar to the sight of two
> parallel lines that, by definition, cannot intersect. A Yoku is
> related to,
> but not to be confused with a metaphysical conceit in which opposites
> are
> violently yoked together into an artificial coherence to compel an
> intended
> conceit, that is an enforced imposition of implied or directly stated
> meaning, ironic or otherwise. A Yoku is also related to a Haiku, but
> different.
>
> Stephen V
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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Words cling to other words
As we have seen, although even these are
Migratory and the forgotten shows through as correction.
This noun has been defunct for centuries.
Ann Lauterbach
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