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RE: What We Imagine Turns Us Inside Out: A Sestina, with Illustrations

in #poetry2 years ago

The Sestina is fun because it's not too sing-song rhymy, but the repeated words give it a meditative, liturgical feel.

I think that's what I liked about it. For me, the sing-songy poems have always lacked something. And yes, Romanian does have accented syllables, unlike the French.

I always wondered what it's like to read poetry in those languages.

Disruptive, I should think? Since it goes against the way you understand poetry... I mean, it's one thing to agree (or maybe even like) that poetry doesn't need to rhyme to be poetry. But I think this takes one's understanding of poems a step further.

What if there's no God, and there's no audience? What if we're the last poets on earth? Think of the freedom we'll have!

Don't we already? :)