I think it has potential, Doug. Here's another, a tanka this time:
The Hotel Machine
It is a vast dome
glowing with a love for each
other. The ore in
the light. We learn all you are
in themselves so easily.
Texts:
Horatio Alger Jr., Joe The Hotel Boy
A. Maude Royden, Sex And Common-Sense
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
On 31 July 2011 16:03, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Perhaps as footnote one says, 'Gnoetry acts as a proof to Wittgenstein’s
> dictum that “a poem, even though it is composed of the language of
> information is not used in the language-game of giving information” (Zettel
> §160).'
>
> But that can still be true of ones we write without mechanical aid.
>
> So, I'm intrigued, but remain somewhat true to mysel(ves), as I suspect you
> still do, too, David.
>
> Doug
> On 2011-07-31, at 7:22 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > Firstly, this link gives a manifesto, I'm not posting it as necessarily
> > being support for any views of mine but perhaps as a statement of intent,
> if
> > that word can be used, it's a useful proclamation:
> >
> > http://www.womenwriters.net/digitaleves/gnoetry.html
> >
> >
> > While here's a link for an automated diastic poem maker:
> >
> > eDiastic: Poetry Generation using a Diastic Reading
> > technique<http://www.eddeaddad.net/eDiastic/>
> >
> > And this is a link for installing Gnoetry 0.2 (you do need Ubuntu in one
> > form or another)
> >
> > Gnoetry 0.2 – Download and Install Howto « Markovian Parallax Generate:
> On
> > digital writing and
> > poetics<
> http://mchainpoetics.wordpress.com/gnoetry-0-2-download-and-install-howto/
> >
> >
> > and finally here's debut Gnoem I made:
> >
> >
> > A Bartleby Christmas
> >
> > The natives, then the instance of a child:
> > a man. A virgin and a few. Expect
> > the second fall, in his accustomed voice,
> > replied the girl, appearing from the lines.
> >
> > The copies, and the other two. In what,
> > the air, about the sun the weather was
> > surrounded. It arises from the next
> > gradation, and the ghost, in this. In what,
> >
> > the moon. The sea, upon the ground. In what,
> > the objects fall, described in one respect.
> > In what, the room the day, in silence for
> > a shade. The data of the ceiling, man.
> >
> >
> >
> > Texts:
> > Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
> > Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener
> > Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, The
> >
> >
> > best
> >
> > dave
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
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>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem
> strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your
> inadequacies.
>
> William H. Gass
>
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
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