Comment If netspeak frightens you, poetry will terrify you (Score 1) 695
Here's a quote from JH Prynne's poem "Acrylic Tips", one of many to invigorate meaning, context & words. Prynne is the greatest living English language poet, according to quite a few people, me included. The entire poem can be seen at http://www.geocities.com/barque_press/acrylic.html .
Over the seam flux penult dissension cries going apart
to panel strip on first insert, to nurse a flint
terrace cut away, they glimpse the line torn in order
antagonist ducted retention. The ordinate now set
Of the influence line my honey at due rain down partly
on useful toil, the ratio of he for living hurt cheeks
to the concentrated reply curtain.
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The English language is growing. Put the effort in, grow with it, or you'll become lost.
Over the seam flux penult dissension cries going apart
to panel strip on first insert, to nurse a flint
terrace cut away, they glimpse the line torn in order
antagonist ducted retention. The ordinate now set
Of the influence line my honey at due rain down partly
on useful toil, the ratio of he for living hurt cheeks
to the concentrated reply curtain.
The English language is growing. Put the effort in, grow with it, or you'll become lost.
