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What is poetry?

by Glenn Currier

Poetry is noticing
ants stretch across
the concrete ravine
etching lines on your tablet

06/25/2008

Author's Note: Challenge one: Write a poem of 2 to 4 lines answering the question - "What is poetry?" Challenge too: Write a comment on my poem rewording or rewriting one or more lines using your own imagination and skill. And in the comment you can indicate if you have written your own poem so we can go to your library and keep the challenge going. Any other ideas about how to do this?

Posted on 06/25/2008
Copyright © 2024 Glenn Currier

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 06/25/08 at 05:34 PM

I'm "etching lines on your tablet" here, hoping the ants can rearrange my words into something more beautiful, something I might add to my library, full of ideas pollinated and brought to bloom. Alas, the leaf cutter bee has made off with all the paper and I am writing on bits of paper flitting through the air.

Posted by Sandy M. Humphrey on 06/25/08 at 09:57 PM

I am intrigued and aware that 'noticing poetry is' being aware of the slightest nuance in the verbariage that is written by the movements of the tiniest among us. This inspired my definition which I have posted for your critique. smh

Posted by Mary Frances Spencer on 06/26/08 at 06:51 AM

"Poetry is noticing"...everything anything all things that come into our light and resonate our being, then rearranging the moment into expressive communication, a jumble of words to inform, inspire, stimulate, irritate or otherwise share an idea, story, emotion, or visual. MFS

Posted by Meghan Helmich on 06/27/08 at 08:18 PM

ants stretch across my fingers without biting. that's what poetry feels like...a feather-light army pushing through the garbage of life. moving mountains exponentially larger than itself. i'll be writing one, as well.

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 06/28/08 at 06:09 PM

Good poem Glenn. Ants do make good subjects for poetry. I went ahead a (re)posted a poem in response to the challenge without first having read the details. Hope you don't mind. It's the best I can come up with for the meantime with so much on my plate on the homefront. Thanks! :o)

Posted by Maria Massarella on 06/30/08 at 09:54 PM

Poetry is the etching lines on your tablet and noticing there is a stretch of poems blossoming there where the ants had crossed the concrete ravine ... Thank you*

Posted by Alison McKenzie on 07/01/08 at 01:59 AM

Poetry is noticing That the ants stretching across my tablet Are having better luck at the task at hand Than me! Now, if my html didn't work, I'm going to feel really silly!!!!! LOL!!!

Posted by Alison McKenzie on 07/01/08 at 02:00 AM

It didn't work. Oh well. LOL!!! I did manage to contribute.

Posted by Ken Harnisch on 07/01/08 at 03:47 AM

Poetry is noticing/the ants marching across my ravine/are after nothing/but my honey

Posted by A. Paige White on 07/03/08 at 07:17 PM

Poetry is etching
the concrete lines
on your tablet, noticing
ravine ants s t   r   e   t     c     h across
I can be so stoooopid. I have thoroughly enjoyed your challenge, lol, even before I read it I was inspired to write about it. I did one after I read this, too. "What is Poetry?" cHaLlEnGe. Thanks for inspiring us!

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