Thank you, Anny. I wanted to link to it from a blog entry.
But looking it over, I'd suggest adding this, by Archibald MacLeish:
ARS POETICA
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown--
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
*
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs,
Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind--
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs.
*
A poem should be equal to:
Not true.
For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf.
For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea--
A poem should not mean
But be.
Anny Ballardini wrote:
> Hi Tad,
>
> Here it is:
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=62
>
>
> otherwise under Poets:
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content
>
> Look for New Poetry Mailing List,
> Take care,
> Anny
>
>
> On 7/2/07, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> What's the URL for Anny Ballardini's page of definitions of poetry?
>>
>> --
>> Tad Richards
>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>>
>
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Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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