Posted by Phil M on September 08, 2003 at 05:41:55:
In Reply to: #8083 - it had to happen eventually posted by Simon on September 08, 2003 at 01:58:45:
: Does it still count as poetry when it's all in one line?
Oh, definitely, because...
: loving you with my deaths forever left desire not little meaningful one he see arms all stones of maybe shouting while in doomed
...has a line-break at the end. Now, in my book[1] that makes it a "poignant piece of poetry exhibiting the author's unfulfilled amibition and sense of incompleteness through a subtle invocation of aborted potentiality", or something... :)
[1] Not that I have a book. Or at least any book that is my own work. I do recomend anything by Terry Pratchett though or Discworld related, though. The Nanny Ogg Cookbook is worth a read... :)