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English experiential poet of open verse& creator of the FOOTLE (singular form)&EMAGI digital reverse ekphrasis.A regular @PS since 2007 ,with 10,000+ poems posted&sponsor of 1300+contests ( Amazon booksreviews (500+)GOOGLE my POETRY/ART BLOGS @https://www.blogger.com/profile/02166493604739619406 inc youtube links to my recitations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

POETRY is it really an ART

Blog Posted:5/12/2021 12:22:00 AM


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James Marshall
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Date: 5/22/2021 8:00:00 AM
Thoughtful & meaning answers below, Brian, art is subjective, for sure, often immeasurable, but frequently measurable by consensus! if one can quiet the noise of life, the mind's eye can restore, nurture & heal us with moments of magical art daily
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/22/2021 8:46:00 AM
Yes Jimbo,both can satisfy an inner yearning
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Brian
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Date: 5/14/2021 12:27:00 AM
Perhaps the maxim ' a picture paints a thousand words ' best sums up the question ,although not the practicalities of either.
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Edward
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Date: 5/13/2021 5:46:00 PM
Yes, it is. A poet is as much an artist as a painter is, the only difference is a poet creates mental imagery and a painter/sculptor/sketch artist creates visual imagery on a canvas.
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/13/2021 9:48:00 PM
Yes Edward, kinship can be seen in the process
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Brian
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Date: 5/13/2021 2:57:00 AM
An interesting product of this quandary is the many delightful 'shape'(concrete) poems where talent for both topics are combined into one.Some here are truly imaginative and left field in originality.
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Brian
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Date: 5/13/2021 2:47:00 AM
Sad to say ,so much poetry especially ' verse freed' is structured prose with very little poetic 'art ' of any kind or even structure sometimes,for that matter.
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John
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Date: 5/12/2021 1:42:00 PM
I would guess it is an art unless you subscribe to the "infinite number of monkeys" theory...
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/12/2021 2:11:00 PM
Yes John it certainly requires skill of various kinds
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Marilene
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Date: 5/12/2021 10:09:00 AM
Poetry is under literature and part of performing arts. It is an art for it shows human creativeness.... expressing one's imagination of beauty, feelings, emotion and observations.
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/12/2021 10:32:00 AM
Yes Marilene 'performance' is the key that takes poetry to its apex ,bringng other facets to the fore.
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Constance
La France
Date: 5/12/2021 9:22:00 AM
Brian, thank you for the blog. I think that art, music, poetry are sisters and creative photography is a close cousin and each is a beautiful expression of the artist dwelling within us, peace _Constance
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/12/2021 9:34:00 AM
Good analogy Constance ..perhaps step-sisters ..maybe..
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Robert
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Date: 5/12/2021 5:05:00 AM
If poetry is not an Art, neither is any of the other things that they call Art, imho. Read the great legendary poets of old and then with any level of intellect/emotion or sensory apparatus in the human body that can create, feel, see, hear, imagine, hold and embrace beauty- dare to say poetry is not art! Such would definitely be blind folly, imho...
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/12/2021 5:11:00 AM
Hear ,perhaps Robert is the defining aspect to qualify our literature with beauty ..of sound suitable cadenced.
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Sara
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Date: 5/12/2021 3:13:00 AM
I enjoy some poems more than others. Those special poems have really good rhythm and flow. I know that is a gift the poet has to create fluid rhythm. I find it very difficult to create that flow but enjoy trying. It is an art that is developed over time for me(or maybe never) or maybe some are born with it. Sara
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/12/2021 4:06:00 AM
God's gifting indeed Sara.
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Suzette
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Date: 5/12/2021 12:39:00 AM
As art is in the eye of the beholder, poetry is often only appreciate by other poets, and lost on the masses.
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Suzette Richards
Date: 5/12/2021 2:24:00 AM
I agree. It is indeed an art form to read poetry to an appreciative audience :))
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/12/2021 12:59:00 AM
better yet Suz..in the ear..

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