Weekly Round-up (January 16-22)

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Working on helping jjhunter get caught up on weekly round-ups. This round-up looks back at the week of January 16-22.

Poetry host Luisa A. Igloria posts and associated poems:

Intro post

Questions
-commentary/meta
-Poem "Twenty Questions"

Reading Plato - 'Some Poems I love Best'
-commentary on and exploration of "Reading Plato" by Rick Barot
-poem "Reading Plato" by Rick Barot

The Dazzling Ghazal
-introduction to the Ghazal form
-commentary/meta
-Poem "Ghazal of the Transcendental"




Highlights from the comments

rbarenblat and Luisa have a conversation regarding the mystery that lies at the heart of poetry: comment and response.

peoppenheimer poses hir own questions: 1. Why must my words be perfect?
2. Understand what I mean, not what I say!
3. Trees shrouded in mist; sunlight on a mountain peak; sun in shadow.
4. Understanding without words.
5. Does pragmatics trump semantics?
6. If only there were a characteristica universalis!
7. Dark blue denim, light blue denim.
8. Contrast makes clarity only within silence.
9. Acceptance does not imply agreement.
10. It's hard to know when two persons say the same thing.
11. When is one line a rewriting of another?

rbarenblat's response to "Ghazal of the Transcendental":
The penultimate couplet especially resonates with me! And also the notion that one must sing rather than drone. In some ways, that's the whole struggle of the spiritual life (the writing life, too) -- to return, again and again, to my intention of singing instead of being ground down by droning.