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Po:etry

Po:etry is based on the concept of "po." "Po" is a mind laxative, a conceptual provocation, a pattern interruption facilitator. "Po," as a linguistic device, was introduced by Edward De Bono. Here's how De Bono describes the function of po: "Po is to lateral thinking what No is to logical thinking. Po is an insight restructuring tool... The function of Po is the rearrangement of information to create new pattern and to restructure old ones."  Po:etry is philosophical poetry, poetry of pattern interruption.

apophenia (per Wiki):

po:etry - is pattern-interruption poetry
po:etry is an anti-dote to apophenia
po:ssibly, that is

 

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad,[1] who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness."  I don't mean to suggest that if you have apophenia, po:etry will cure it.  No.  What I mean is this:  mind is inherently apophenic.  It sees patterns where none exist.  Po:etry works to reverse this process.  It helps you break the pattern and to, perhaps, see reality un-patterned, if only for a moment.  How will you know that you did?  Confusion will be your hint.

Leonard Cohen is a PO:ET

check him out:

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

This could be the anthem of po:etry - po:etry exploits the cracks to let in the light of the unexpected.

Effect of Po:etry

Poetry makes you feel.
Poetry makes you think.
Po:etry breaks your regular thougth patterns.
This isn't a poem
Maybe a po:em
but not really.

Poet meets Po:et

Poet - I've never heard of "po:etry."
Po:et - Neither have I!

Poet - What kind of genre is "po:etry"?
Po:et - Po:ety is a non-genre.

Poet - How do I know if I wrote a po:em rather than a poem?
Po:et - How do you know you wrote whatever you wrote?

Poet - What's the deal with the colon, the punctuation mark, of course, not the larger intestine?
Po:et - Po:etry is a laxative for your mind, a conceptual enema for the undigested mental constructions.

Poet - So, how do I write a po:em?
Po:et - By not writing it.

Poet - I don't understand!
Po:et - Congratulations!
Poet - Are you mocking me?
Po:et - I am mirroring you.

Poet - I have noticed that there is a certain kind of intellectual distance to these so-called po:ems.
Po:et - Yes, meta-cognitive distance.
Poet - Meta-cognitive distance between whom and whom/what?
Po:et - Between the reader-as-the-subject and his/her objects of consciousness.

Poet - Is there another way of describing all of this?
Po:et - Yes: soul-ipsism.

 

 

Russian Poetry/Po:etry analysis

Pushkin - a poet
Mayakovsky - a po:et (rule of thumb - po:ets are not translatable); Mayakovsky - po:et of 1917 Bolshevik revolution which itself was one hell of a social pattern interruption.

Esenin - a poet
D. Kharms - a children's po:et, an unrecognized Zen master of the 1920s in the Soviet Union; his short stories were so out of the left field that he could only publish as a children's author, and, boy, did he sneak in some wild po:ems into the minds of Soviet children (died of starvation, during detention, in Leningrad jail, in 1941; ironically, Kharms was a big fan of Hamsun's "Hunger").