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[rayheinrich]

Hi everyone,

I suddenly started writing poetry again, after years of not being interested in it. And I'm curious to see if they're intelligible.
Also curious to read other's works again.

    Hi!
I suddenly start writing poetry again every week or so. I used to call it "writer's block", now I call it "natural".

Welcome!
Ray

P.S. I'd watch trying to be "intelligible"; if it's not unintelligible, people might not recognize it as being poetry.

Re your PS. I call bullshit.

While I agree that bullshit is an important ingredient of poetry as well, I'm think I can make
a compelling argument for why unintelligibility surpasses it.

Since this is more the subject for a discussion thread, I won't go on; just add one thing: Metaphor!
Metaphor is poetry's (as well as language's) heart and soul and unintelligibility is the essence of metaphor --
it provides the cognitive dissonance necessary for creativity, for new understanding.
Ray