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The Poet, as defined by a Beatnik

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POET - Noun.

1) One who writes verse and prose. A simple descriptive noun. 

2) An emotionally sensitive and artistic individual. 

3) One who translates the pain, tragedy, joy and love of the human existence using the written and spoken languages of the planet earth.

4) One who proclaims to the cosmos her most honest and primal thoughts and feelings sprung from her heart and soul, without apology, and without regret. This process can be described as similar to that of a rushing waterfall, an exploding star, or a thundering bolt of lightning. 

5) A brave-hearted soul who has made peace with her gifts, as well as her curses, and thus journeys forth with pen and journal in hand, pouring out her soul through an exploration of words, sounds, and punctuation marks. 

6) A character of humanity who serves as a vessel for evolutionary experiences and a prophet of awakening and healing through his or her servitude of the divine and martyrdom of the heart. Often attributed to an excess of suffering, broken hearts, and catalytic experiences, punctuated by flashes of brilliant inspiration and sensations of blissful connection with the universe. 


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zuma
May. 5th, 2012 07:52 pm (UTC)
sometimes

sometimes poetry only gets turned to as a last resort, a reserved certainty, when one is really up against it or their heart & mind have come to schism lest one yields first before the other. sometimes it's a pacemaker, returning one to rhythm. sometimes it's simply a way out, out of conventionality or 'the box', as an idea broader than form. sometimes it's simply the only way some ideas can be conveyed, to be understood in the spirit in which they arose. sometimes it's inadvertently found in a moment or recognized in a random pattern or cacophony. sometimes, most often even, it's conspicuous by it's absence.
alasthai
May. 6th, 2012 04:27 am (UTC)
If it helps at all, our 'poet' is from Greek ποιητης ("poiētēs"), from ποιηω ("poiēō"), 'do'/'make'/'craft'. The classical discrimination, then, was between a ποιημα ("poiēma"), a 'finely-crafted piece of writing', and prosus ('plain') writing.
slomosexual
May. 6th, 2012 03:11 pm (UTC)
I like this. I believe that poetry must contain strange language, and that strange language must be plain language.
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