Thursday, May 7, 2015

More on "The Ballad of Beautiful Words"


       Why is the poetry in yesterday's post so readable, listenable?  So Euphonious?  Is it more the rhymes, more the rhythms, is it more the individual words and their sound/image value?  Is it just a list of nice words in a "ballad"?  WITHIN each line, what are the colors, the shifting differences even when the letters are all the same that begin words?  I think the poem a marvel.  The selection process itself must have been a feast, not to mention the piecing it all together in a seamless sound and rhythmic package, each stanza.

       I can't tell for sure who made the poem; this is one-third of it, but I can find it for you and send you to it.  It's at Issa's Untidy Hut, the Poetry Blog for Lilliput Review.  Scroll down till you come to "The Ballad of Beautiful Words."

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