the poet's voice

[Bernard Alain]

It is the absence of conventional grammar in poetry that uniquely defines the poet's voice, continuation that qualifies the content. A literary standard only further categorizes poetry, not necessarily diminishing the expression, but making it accountable only to an institution of possibly more regional nature. The international poet needs to see beyond these limitations.

[Oscar Calixto]

Wow... Great! A expression of poet´s voices... And your voices are your soul! I think that the poet need say about all that exist in the world, but, need say excencialy about the soul... About the the soul of the everythings and erveryone. And for this isn´t exist limitation.

Great Hug for all

[Mary Wismer]

As I believe Poetry is the languages of love and love has no limitation. Express the real feelings deep down give with rhytm. They even pick up bits of history by remembering such simple rhymes children who find things easier when they are said in rhyme and rhythm. Farmers and housewives prefer verse to prose for their wise sayings; the music of a rhyme helps them to remember. It points up their proverbs and gives a quick turn to the meaning. Even on the lowest plane, poetry is rarely "rhyme without reason." It sharpens the wit's cleverness and heightens the lover's dearest sentiments. Poetry ranges all the way from the childish " Roses are red, violets are blue" to Robert Burns's immortal song "My love is like a red, red rose." When we are deeply aroused, we express ourselves in some sort of poetry; our emotions spill over into a football cheer, a ballad, or a love lyric. A poem expresses our inner excitement, eases our pain, and glorifies our joy. Because of its strongly accented beat ana its ability to convey intense feeling, poetry is the most powerful form of speech.

[GREENWOLFE 1962]

I agree with you in respect to your perspective on international poetry . However , I believe that a definition of
poetry is necessary as opposed to prose . Today , who can say that prose will be called poetry . This confuses
me and I am opposed to this . I love prose . Let Poetic Prose be the name , and let it be defined as such .

Greenwolfe 1962

[Bernard Alain]

Yes I think there needs to be a clearer definition with respect to prose, going back to the 16th century if I recall correctly, anything lyrical at all was considered poetry. We have evolved and unevolved in some respects, the general trend of course moving away from devices like metaphor and rhyme. Possible there are only a few components that have survived the centuries, a notion that can be read as poetry and maybe the documenting of issues relevant to the poet. In good prose we tell a story and have it read without other significance being given to the descriptive elements, read as poetry though we might weave a rather confusing path as we attempt to extort a deeper meaning. "if you say it's a poem then it's poem" may sound scary but in fact elicits a notion that there is more to the read than what is apparent, of course it suffers much abuse, who's to say the reader 'gets it'. I've read prose that reads well as poetry, rarely the opposite, maybe the misconception lies in the use of punctuation and capitalization giving the appearance of prose when in fact it's an attempt to create a more narrative feel., it's really hard to say.

GREENWOLFE 1962 said:

I agree with you in respect to your perspective on international poetry . However , I believe that a definition of
poetry is necessary as opposed to prose . Today , who can say that prose will be called poetry . This confuses
me and I am opposed to this . I love prose . Let Poetic Prose be the name , and let it be defined as such .

Greenwolfe 1962