That's what I like--a poem that knows its own mind.
--- Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Maybe it was feeling cross at the time. Maybe it was
> feeling poorly?
> After all, it had just been written.
>
> On 4/8/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > I've already asked it, and it said, "No."
> >
> > Hal
> >
> > "Cross / a border every day, and leave
> > your luggage in the station."
> > --Wendy Battin
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
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> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> >
> > On Apr 8, 2007, at 3:51 PM, MC Ward wrote:
> >
> > > Hal, for what it's worth, I think this sonnet
> wants to
> > > be a prose poem--Candice
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Sonnet: In Fine Fettled Sleep
> > >>
> > >> Between the artificial hills and the more
> pragmatic
> > >> wavelets, back in the analog age, mathematical
> > >> proofs
> > >> proved worthless. Some angular deflections
> invited
> > >> trisections and later even quintisections,
> among
> > >> other
> > >>
> > >> impossible feats. Foolproof analogies
> calibrated our
> > >> volt-meters, reminding us of the First Law of
> > >> Baseball:
> > >> There's no Game Five after four have already
> been
> > >> lost.
> > >> Humdrum solutions to perfectly humdrum
> problems.
> > >>
> > >> "Das ist kein Mann!" sings Siegfried italicly,
> > >> Brünnhilde
> > >> resting yet in fire-shielded sleep. What's most
> > >> remarkable
> > >> fails to surprise us any longer. All true
> theorums
> > >> are trivial,
> > >> as she once sang. We joke about this with
> > >> co-workers,
> > >>
> > >> but never to the boss. And yet, keeping the
> door
> > >> open just
> > >> a crack allows x and not-x to sweetly cohabit
> the
> > >> room.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Hal
> > >>
> > >> Halvard Johnson
> > >> ================
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> > >> [log in to unmask]
> > >> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> > >> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > >> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > >> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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