Rod,
the list doesn't actually frown on HTML as such, it's just that often it can
show up as a confusing mess on some systems and, more importantly - the use of
HTML allows for and seems to encouraged the embedding of images and the like
into e-mail messages.
When such e-mails are
On 2006 May 21, at 10:59 AM, Allan Revich wrote: So the issue is, what becomes of the "0% mesostic"? It is not an acrostic. It is not 50% mesostic, nor is it a 100% mesostic. I remain wont to call it a mesostic as that term seems well-suited to describe an acrostic poem with the phrase down the
Fab Fibonacci Sequence with Mesostic Colons
0 : 0
1 : 1
2 : 1
3 : 2
4 : 3
5 : 5
6 : 8
7 : 13
8 : 21
9 : 34
10: 55
Fab Fib w/Mesostic Rectum
heRos
plEasure
seConal pills
veTeran soldiers felled
reUniting with the fallen graves
laMbs slaughtered in a single sentence of doubt
Allan : Revich
nothing says "I love
you" like angel's breath
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On 2006 May 21, at 1:55 PM, Allan Revich wrote: The more I learn, the less I seem to know! Rod, what do you think?Hahahahaha! Well, yes, I think I may have answered this in my last post.Allan, I think that if you can come up with a unique way of constructing your poemsusing acrostics, then you
Thanks Rod for such athoughtful answer.
I confess to
remaining unconvinced that only Cage's mesostic forms can rightfully be called
"mesostic", but I am certainly much better informed than I was a week
ago!
It is interesting
to contemplate how the term will be used some decades from now.
That would be a rhopalic verse (only one 'l')
Of text in which each word contains one more
letter or syllable than the one preceding it.
This word derives from the Greek rhopalos, for a club or
cudgel which, like most of its kind, is thicker towards one end than
the other. Though the English
Sorry, I meant to say an anti-rhopalic verse...
On 2006 May 22, at 10:29 AM, Rod Stasick wrote:
...would be a steady reduction of her first line idea to an
exhausted state - a kind of rhopallic verse or syllabic snowball,
then it would fit the name more closely.
Rod
On 2006 May 22, at 10:47 AM, Allan Revich wrote: Thanks Rod for such a thoughtful answer. I confess to remaining unconvinced that only Cage's mesostic forms can rightfully be called "mesostic", but I am certainly much better informed than I was a week ago! It is interesting to contemplate
On 2006 May 22, at 10:48 AM, Cecil Touchon wrote:
That would be a rhopalic verse (only one 'l')
Thanks Cecil. I caught that when it showed up later.
I really meant anti-rhopalic (and anti-snowball as well, I suppose).
Rod
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did keep the cocktail umbrellas
in constant motion glancing at the
x beneath your thumb
dressed sailor suited fluff
that was definitely not
a campfire girl or anything with
a bowel doing somersaults
kind of smoking like an
eggplant dreaming a watered phone
on
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On 2006 May 22, at 6:50 AM, Alan Bowman wrote:
Rod,
the list doesn't actually frown on HTML as such, it's just that
often it can show up as a confusing mess on some systems and, more
importantly - the use of HTML allows for and seems to encouraged
the embedding of images and the like
I think you'll find it's a leetol beet!
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its a little hard doing it that way and I didnt do a
very good job.I just like to write poetry and I don't
like to think about the form too much. I often say
On 2006 May 22, at 4:29 PM, Madawg Painterofdark wrote:
altar Fireplace
Madawg staRes
SpidErman
rEaches out
the bellowS are there
fIre
Air
its a little hard doing it that way and I didnt do a
very good job.I just like to write poetry and
i don't have time for nothing!
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That's OK. I have more than enough time for both of us.
Plenty of time for plenty of nothing.
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Awaiting your response
(Adding the extra syllababble makes me feel more capababble of finding some
babbalance in all of this. I am *so* hai-cool! I want to try an exhaustic,
but my mesostic-kles, and I may be calming down with something, maybe a
http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs.html
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