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Maybe it's my temperament, but I've always "gotten" Rumi. I rather had trouble instead on Sylvia Plath's poetry.
by palad1n 10y ago
Maybe it's my temperament, but I've always "gotten" Rumi. I rather had trouble instead on Sylvia Plath's poetry.
- pmoriarty 10y agoI find poetry to be the most personal of the arts. It can take a lot of hunting to find the poet that's just right. My tastes has changed greatly as I've gotten older, too. I can't relate to many of the poets I loved in my youth, and I'm sure the younger me would have found the poets I like now to be ridiculous. Finding poets with whom you resonate can be a life-long treasure hunt.
- MarkPNeyer 10y agoI'll just step in here to advertise a bit. I write poetry, using technical metaphors to convey a lot of the things i think about. Here's an example: === In Case of Emergency, Shatter Ego i am not a process, but the pattern. i am not a system, but the shape. i am not a rapid, but the river. i am not the ocean, but a wake. i am not the etching, but an image. i am not the constant, but a rate. i am not the message, but a relay. i am not a signal, but the wait. i am not a digit, but an index. i am not a value, but a space. i am not a body, but a person. i am not a vertex, but a face. === If you liked that, here's a whole book full of it: https://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Emotion-Structure-Possibility/dp/1623751179/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488490123&sr=8-1&keywords=mechanics+of+emotion https://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Emotion-Structure-Possibili...
- pcthrowaway 10y agoI really enjoyed that, thanks! These two lines were my favorite: i am not a digit, but an index. i am not a value, but a space. And felt like these lines went against the message of the rest: i am not the constant, but a rate. i am not the message, but a relay i am not a vertex, but a face.