4 comments so far...

• ianb1469 Said on September 3rd, 2008 at 07:06:
  

  I never ‘get’ poetry (especially if it doesn’t rhyme).

• sweavo Said on September 3rd, 2008 at 08:46:
  

  passers-by and naked eye;
  gravity and territory;
  visits and orbits.

  Somebody said “poetry can communicate before it is understood”.

  But I’m not claiming it’s a good poem…

  Maybe you’d prefer this quote about poetry, which I feel you’ll find as comprehensible as poetry itself :-)

• ianb1469 Said on September 3rd, 2008 at 18:08:
  

  “In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.”

  Indeed, very enlightening; it’s a good scientific explanation…

• max Said on September 6th, 2008 at 08:51:
  

  Was it a comet or meteorite or a flaming jack russell that wiped out the dinosaurs?