Posted by James K on January 26, 2006, at 14:42:54
In reply to Re: What is Good, posted by Maynerd on January 23, 2006, at 0:44:34
My completely untrained thoughts on poetry also relate to lyrics and rhyme. What I think is good is when someone can throw in the rhyme and the word play in the form of readable sentences. And there isn't a sing-song rhythm but a more complex one. Then you can slam in a non rhyme or an incomplete measure for effect. Like a dissonant chord or a verse that doesn't go where you expect, but still works. In musical improvisation, I think there isn't a wrong note, as long as you can resolve it in the bigger scheme of the run or the structure. The work of Ornette Coleman comes into play here because he threw out many of the rules just to see if he could get a group or solo strictly with feel not convention. Harmolodics (or something close to that) he called it, and very few besides himself actually understand all of it. But I love the theory of it. Another thing I'm reminded of is what I think Lester Bangs called the Lou Reed school of songwriting. "I walked to the chair. I sat in the chair."
None of this has anything to do with "What is Good", I'm just riffing on your comments.
I like your "leaking from the corners of his eyes" poem further down the page. Particularly the river imagery and the broken dreams part.
James K
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