A simile ! excellent work Marty, similes are essential ingredients for the poets craft.Martyboy wrote:its just having that chameleon like ability
Changing times ????
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Neville Briggs
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Re: Changing times ????
Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
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manfredvijars
Re: Changing times ????
Just echoing Keats' 'defense' of "The Gay Farmhand"
The clashing of city and bush culture has been a great Aussie custom - taka a look at "The Man From Ironbark". both subjects were treated delicately enough such that the 'status quo' came out looking the fool while the minority group (gay farmhand & shearer) came out the hero.
There are no limits to what we can write and perform. Nor should there be, we poets have a powerful pallet at our disposal. We have the power to move people to laugh, cry and even anger. It's our calling to hold up a mirror to ourselves. If the subject matter is 'icky' (for some) but if it has Truth, then PC police be damned, just tell it like it is!!
Diverging slightly, there is no shame in the title, "Bush Poet". It reflects our cultural roots and declares our style - unashamedly Rhyme and Metre.
For all the 'free-verse' that's being written and performed, I cannot name one contemporary Australian 'standout' (free-verse) piece. Yet Turbulence, The Mr Whippy Van to Rain from Nowhere, Reversals, The Ballad of Darkie Lee are known around the Country - the city AND the bush.
On another note, Václav Havel is a Czech poet, playwright, essayist, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic. Even Barack Obama is a (rhyming) poet.
We're in great company.
The clashing of city and bush culture has been a great Aussie custom - taka a look at "The Man From Ironbark". both subjects were treated delicately enough such that the 'status quo' came out looking the fool while the minority group (gay farmhand & shearer) came out the hero.
There are no limits to what we can write and perform. Nor should there be, we poets have a powerful pallet at our disposal. We have the power to move people to laugh, cry and even anger. It's our calling to hold up a mirror to ourselves. If the subject matter is 'icky' (for some) but if it has Truth, then PC police be damned, just tell it like it is!!
Diverging slightly, there is no shame in the title, "Bush Poet". It reflects our cultural roots and declares our style - unashamedly Rhyme and Metre.
For all the 'free-verse' that's being written and performed, I cannot name one contemporary Australian 'standout' (free-verse) piece. Yet Turbulence, The Mr Whippy Van to Rain from Nowhere, Reversals, The Ballad of Darkie Lee are known around the Country - the city AND the bush.
On another note, Václav Havel is a Czech poet, playwright, essayist, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic. Even Barack Obama is a (rhyming) poet.
We're in great company.