poems like this are sillyo...
what's the dillyo?
--
Bob Marcacci
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some
strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon
> From: Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
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> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:19:01 -0600
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> Subject: Another poem that tells us how we should be writing poetry
>
> Air: Sentir avec ardeur
>
> by Marie-Francoise-Catherine de Beauveau, la Marquise de Boufflers
>
> Say what you will in two
> Words and get through.
> Long, frilly
> Palaver is silly.
>
> Know how to read? you must
> Before you can write. An idiot
> Will always
> Talk a lot.
>
> You need not always narrate;
> But listen a while and not say: "I! I!"
> Want to know why?
>
> The me is tyrannical;
> academical.
> Early, late
> Boredom's cognate mate
> in step at his side
> And I with a me, I fear,
> yet again!
>
> Say what you will in two
> Words and get through!
> Long, frilly
> Palaver is silly.
>
>
> -- translated from the French
> by Ezra Pound
>
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