{"id":3537,"date":"2024-06-06T08:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T20:30:54","slug":"pome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/2024\/06\/06\/pome\/","title":{"rendered":"POME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3473 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-abst-03s-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-abst-03s-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-abst-03s-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-abst-03s-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/antimony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-abst-03s.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nPoetry is pl<em>a<\/em>y w<em>i<\/em>th w<em>o<\/em>rds.<br \/>\nA poet raises language by paying close attention to<br \/>\n&#8211; rhythm &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; sound &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; evocation &#8211;<br \/>\nof all the words in the piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Poetry slows you down . . .<br \/>\nnothing ruins poesy like lazy thinking:<br \/>\nbuzzwords, talking points, trite observations \u2013 <em>bah!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How start?<br \/>\nYou might start by free associating,<br \/>\nor by doing a body self scan,<br \/>\nor by studying some facet of nature or culture,<br \/>\nwhatever.<br \/>\nOpen inner ears &#8211;<br \/>\nReceive words from the worldmind.<br \/>\nGet them down.<br \/>\nPluck them from fire and mark them on a leaf.<br \/>\nThese words are your seed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A seed contains a thought and just enough fuel<br \/>\nto get it going. It penetrates Earth<br \/>\nand grows and grows in its own patch of world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then you go over and over<br \/>\nthis <em>Efflorescence<\/em>,<br \/>\nand the Landscape it inhabits,<br \/>\nhiking, word by word,<br \/>\nhill by rut &amp; rill by root:<br \/>\nsyllables, cadence, rhythm,<br \/>\nharmony of vowels,<br \/>\nconsonantal dance,<br \/>\nechoes of poems,<br \/>\nof human moments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Langue fra\u00eeche!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry is play with words. A poet raises language by paying close attention to &#8211; rhythm &#8211; &#8211; sound &#8211; &#8211; evocation &#8211; of all the words in the piece. Poetry slows you down . . . nothing ruins poesy like lazy thinking: buzzwords, talking points, trite observations \u2013 bah! How start? 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