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Old 04-09-2008, 06:50 AM
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LJ K has a spectacular aura about
I've read about a zillion (okay, maybe not that) poems who took the style of great, innovative poets, long dead usually, but just as often not too long, like e.e. cummings.
For a while he never used upper case, and now I'm trying to say I've read a zillion poems that never used upper case, by now, in my life.
I like to read poetry and have read a lot, and a lot about them/poets/poetry. There aren't really all that many different styles, if you define that word as construction of the poem, as I do, like cadence and rhyme patterns...
We all write in and out of each other's style when we write any poem, and maybe that's why at least one friend will be very glad you shared that poem with him/her, if not a room-full of people who simply gathered to share, or just to hear you... because the style is familiar to them, and makes them moved or otherwise touched in some way, like made happy, to hear similar styles.
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