all interaction is generally validated by commerce. In other words will someone pay to read ur work. Any and every interaction cannot amount to publishing - say i dont have to pay my mom to listen to my travails in office, or my friends to listen to the latest joke i read in the internet. But commercialised interaction is a different ball game; cause the issue is - will someone pay to hear me. Am I good enough? Sometimes publishing poems jlt is like a marooned person setting a bottle with an SOS message adrift into the sea.
Jingles in a Greeting card on the other hand merely supports an otherwise successful commercial paradigm. I am yet to find a person who would buy a greeting card merely because of the jingle written inside.
I did write a poem on this though and i hereby share it:-
Commercial Speech
Billboard poets
with commerce in their
words
A Sophocles
selling chips and coke;
A successful poem
is one that can sell
We now have Ad
for Ad's sake well!
The title of our poem
is just a label
on an expensive
pair of shoes.
Ron (07-11-1995)
ymursawsib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Publishing is also about interaction; humans being social animals
need to share their thoughts, experiences etc. with each other.
Poetry can be immensely profitable, but that poetry is not
necessarily high brow. I am talking about the greeting card market.
Who do you think writes all those mushy/funny/ gyani/provocative
rhymed and sometimes unrhymed verses? These people are the
copywriters of the poetry world, they don't get by-lines but they
get paid.
Here is a birthday poem by me. I wrote it on the birth of a friend's
baby boy, got a print out, pasted it on a card and gave it to her. I
didn't earn money, just my friend's appreciation, which meant a lot
to me. :-)Rumjhum
ON THE COMING OF A BABY
In a vast celestial kitchen
Beyond our grasp and far away
The Maker pondered over his staff
While in his hand lay, a bit of clay
Stardust of dreams, the bluebird's song
A cherub's sweet dimpled laugh
A pinch of mischief, wisdom's nectar
And more, He stirred in with his staff
Then gently He set the mould
With infinite care He poured
And softly blew in the breath
Of life. Meanwhile love's fire roaredÂ…
Down below in a mother's heart
A father's and a sister's too
The Maker he saw it all and smiled
For they were your own, He knew!
Yes you __(baby's name)________, you!! Made in the image
Of that butter thieving bundle of joy!
Marvelous indeed are the ways of The Maker who
Brought forth from the weft of a dream, you dear boy!
> Publishing, as a concept, is not just about eliminating
anonymity from ur creativity but has a substantial commercial
content too. And i daresay poetry as a commercial venture is not the
best of profit making industry. Devoid of profit - publishing loses
its meaning. Therefore, poetry is essentially a non-commercial
creative venture - a bit like theatre or documentary film making -
or perhaps like free porn sites all of us search for (just joking!).
>
> All poets end up writing at least one birthday poem. Are any of
us sharing it here in this group. Again the best of birthday poems
has been penned by Dylan Thomas and it was Temp's poem and reference
to the October weather which reminded me of this great oeuvre as it
had a bit of that tone. Our AB Vajpayee is another for Birthday
poems.
>
> Ron
>
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