Poetry as Practice

Poetry and practice have been a theme in PlayAsBeing sessions from the start.  People have shared poems they liked and/or composed, experimented with group composition, and discussed the nature of poetry in its many guises.  Here is a sampling from the chat logs:

Poetry isn't text-with-funny-rules, as people sometimes think
It's language-with-conscious-rules
A much more unrestricted use of language
I liked your point about poetic limits
I think of it as using words that convey ideas and putting them together in such a way that the ideas react with each other to communicate as close as possible what usually can't be communicated
there's things that we think that don't have words
so you say other words that together conveys the idea or builds one
instead of explaining it.
More than "convey" perhaps, is to bring it into Presence
which I guess would mean ideas have free-form relationships to each other,
just like sounds have relationships to each other.
Or point out its already present condition
I think it already exists, i guess it depends how you look at things.
when it comes to music I think all music allready exists, it's all about how yo're going to combine what's there
improv too?
like grabbing raw materials and sculpting them or putting them together
 yeah improv too, you're using raw material and doing it on the spot
Is it more like construction, or more like discovery?
I guess what I mean is that the raw material is there to do as you please with
So some things are "fully formed" already?
when you're a bigginer it's mostly discovery
once you got experience you can construct
and ther's always more to discover
some things have predictable effects

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