[catachresis]

Go gitchoo yur USDA recommended daily supplement of fine poetry!

A Veritable Pharmacopeia of Fine Verse

My contribution--the zyzygy-thingee--is enriched with healthful blastoids. 'Guaranteed to put hair on your palms.

 

[Lazarus Short]

I just read this a few minutes ago. WARNING! This links to a seriously-non-PC article.

savethemales.ca - How the Illuminati Destroyed American Poetry

 

[catachresis]

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Originally Posted by Lazarus Short /img/forum/go_quote.gif I just read this a few minutes ago. WARNING! This links to a seriously-non-PC article. (Emphasis mine)

Hey, Lazarus. I'll bet that you didn't even go look at any of those poems at Unsplendid. I won't vouch for my own, but I think that you'd find that many of them are beautifully crafted and wholesome.

I'm a little dismayed that you've linked-up the journal of formal poetry, Unsplendid--a publication that strongly encourages the appreciation and development of traditional poetic forms--with some puerile controversialist who argues that the entire Western cultural movement of 'Modernism' springs from the satanic malice of Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, and a now nearly forgotten poet and critic, Louis Untermeyer, who was a socialist, but who also created a popular anthology of children's poetry and was awarded The Poetry Society of America's Gold Medal in 1956. According to the swollen little bundle of self-conceit and mendacity interviewed at henrymakow.com, the destruction of poetry occurred, first, because Whitman and Sandburger--both celebrated in the American canon of traditional poetry as champions of democracy--were really socialists, and, second, because of the machinations of the Jews. Really. The American Civil War, the rise of sky-scrapers and steam engines, immigration from Southern Europe, colonialism, Darwinism, labor movements, automobiles, moving-pictures, and trench-warfare had nothing to do with the development of Modernism. Only a die-hard antisemitic is capable of discerning that modern culture was a plot by the Masons to undermine the Pope's authority. This is the wisdom communicated by a man who is still bragging about his elevated reading competency in the second grade.

It beggers belief that the magic words "this is seriously non-pc" can still get some people's juices trickling with anticipation that some profoundly secret and subversive truth is about to be divulged by a prophet of stalwart conservatism. It's like you walk up to a door on which someone has taped a sign that reads, "Warning. What's Inside is Seriously Non-P.C." When you bravely venture in to discover what awful secret is contained, you find that somebody has scrawled "ILLUMINATUS" across the wall in his own faeces.

 

[limpidglitch]

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Originally Posted by catachresis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Go gitchoo yur USDA recommended daily supplement of fine poetry! A Veritable Pharmacopeia of Fine Verse My contribution--the zyzygy-thingee--is enriched with healthful blastoids. 'Guaranteed to put hair on your palms.

Awesome! I must admit I had a little troble with your. I think I made it to about 70% de-crypted, but what I did manage to make a sense out of were powerful stuff indeed.

I found Languages and The City Of Water particularly gripping, and Within gave me a giggle.

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Originally Posted by Lazarus Short /img/forum/go_quote.gif I just read this a few minutes ago. WARNING! This links to a seriously-non-PC article. savethemales.ca - How the Illuminati Destroyed American Poetry

That's just bad taste, dude.

 

[Lazarus Short]

Perhaps ["Perhaps"???!!] some explanation is in order. I probably should have not posted the link, and would remove it except that it is in a later quote. I was still digesting what was said, and had that "scales just fell off my eyes" feeling. You see, I am a published poet myself, and this piece made me wonder if I had been a "useful idiot" in my younger years. Maybe you would like to read some of what I wrote back then versus what I have written more recently.

Did Modernism come about by natural growth, or did it represent Western Civ getting sidetracked, even derailed? Historians will debate it for decades to come, I'm sure, if history lasts that long.

BTW, Dr Henry Makow is Jewish.

 

[catachresis]

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Originally Posted by Lazarus Short /img/forum/go_quote.gif I was still digesting what was said, and had that "scales just fell off my eyes" feeling. You see, I am a published poet myself, and this piece made me wonder if I had been a "useful idiot" in my younger years.

Laz, take a bromide. I can completely commiserate, inasmuch as the guff disseminated by that Stephen Volk character done all-kind of fandangos up and down my craw. And as for being "a 'useful idiot'"--come-on, Man--what guy who's lucky enough to reach the age of 30 with limbs mostly intact hasn't made a special study of being "a useful idiot"? Hell, I got a Masters in it. And you don't hafter be a published poet neither.

@limpidglitch: Thanks for taking the trouble to read my bit. I think that I was trying to be a little more moderne--a little more razz-a-ma-tazzy than I usually am ['left out the epigram from Thomas Hobbes, for instance], and that invited all matter of obscurities and silliness. Well, I *was* in love at the time. There's a wonderful sound file of me shouting it as I stood on a chair in a drunken assembly of Dublin's "Monster-truck Open Poetry Group." I screeched and gabbled as my compatriots hooted and brayed in time. You don't have to understand a word I say to see that I'm in love. And it's just as well.

But I'm super-pleased to have gotten that into _Unsplendid_ because, as you've seen, it's a generally thoughtful and high-toned bunch who've got so much cleverness between them, it's spilling out of their stitching. I think it's very good company.