This desn't fit here, but anyway . . .

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

it's poetry of a sort.

I've started a thread at the GLBT here. It features vintage erotica. Feel free to look and post. The work already posted is stunning.

Raney

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Which begs the question ..... is poetry pictures or words?

 

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

Which begs the question ..... is poetry pictures or words?

Good question, hmm, pictures bring words from me. Maybe a stretch, a stretch of 15 stories, but . . .

 

[Epmd607]

It's the "Poets' Hangout" you can post whatever you want here as far as I know. Though, I don't think pictures are poetry, even when you have a posed picture meant to symbolize something.

 

[Palba_Noruda]

What if it's a posed picture not meant to symbolize something but symbolizes something anyway?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

At the risk of sounding clichéd it's all in the eye of the beholder

 

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

It's the "Poets' Hangout" you can post whatever you want here as far as I know. Though, I don't think pictures are poetry, even when you have a posed picture meant to symbolize something.

I like poetry and pictures together, and I generally illustrate all my poetry. I like it! It marries two arts in a cool way. Mona Lisa's smile is poetry to me. That's simply me. And each has a right to feel as the wish.

What if it's a posed picture not meant to symbolize something but symbolizes something anyway?

UYS has a good answer below.

At the risk of sounding clichéd it's all in the eye of the beholder

 

[Epmd607]

What if it's a posed picture not meant to symbolize something but symbolizes something anyway?

That's interesting though. What's the difference between a planned picture and an accidental picture? Where both end up 'feeling' artistic. Photography is certainly an artistic endeavor even when just capturing what's already in front of you, but sometimes you take pictures and there's something you didn't notice the first time around that's incredibly emotive, expressive, symbolic.

You can have a speech or a prose with poetic qualities but a photo with poetic qualities is the farthest reaches of metaphor. A painting or photo with poetic qualities is out of my jurisdiction of description. I need language.

 

[butters]

That's interesting though. What's the difference between a planned picture and an accidental picture? Where both end up 'feeling' artistic. Photography is certainly an artistic endeavor even when just capturing what's already in front of you, but sometimes you take pictures and there's something you didn't notice the first time around that's incredibly emotive, expressive, symbolic.

You can have a speech or a prose with poetic qualities but a photo with poetic qualities is the farthest reaches of metaphor. A painting or photo with poetic qualities is out of my jurisdiction of description. I need language.

do you not find poetry in a sunset?
the wordless voice of the sea?

 

[Angeline]

Great idea for a thread imo. Anything can inspire poetry, and visuals are especially good because you can just write or do illustration, too (as long, of course, as you're sure you're ok with copyright before you illustrate a photo that isn't yours)

On a side note, I have a vintage picture I really like on my bio page here. I've had it up for years. I can't tell you how many men (always men) actually ask if it's me. I mean I am old, but not that old!

And like Emp said, you can post whatever you like here in the Hangout. As long as it doesn't break Literotica's rules, it's fine.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

do you not find poetry in a sunset?
the wordless voice of the sea?

being clichéd again there's poetry in my garden, it's not one of those regimented ones where everything grows in lines but is full of weeds and pots and blossoms and trees tumbling into each other. The wildlife love it especially the birds and I won't let Ron mend the window to a shed because the robin nests in there each year

 

[EroticOrogeny]

That's interesting though. What's the difference between a planned picture and an accidental picture? Where both end up 'feeling' artistic. Photography is certainly an artistic endeavor even when just capturing what's already in front of you, but sometimes you take pictures and there's something you didn't notice the first time around that's incredibly emotive, expressive, symbolic.

You can have a speech or a prose with poetic qualities but a photo with poetic qualities is the farthest reaches of metaphor. A painting or photo with poetic qualities is out of my jurisdiction of description. I need language.

Seems like its often telephone lines you don't notice when you take a picture. Seems like our eyes/brains are good at filtering them out of the live scene, then we notice in the photo.

 

[Xelebes]

Which begs the question ..... is poetry pictures or words?

The letters themselves are pictures (graphs) so really, it's both.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

The letters themselves are pictures (graphs) so really, it's both.

By this line of reasoning, almost anything could be considered poetry.
One may find a mathematical proof elegant and beautiful, and it is expressed with a similar set of symbols (most of which my keyboard won't support as simple text)., but I don't consider it poetry.

Poetry for me must involve words, whether read or spoken. It may invoke images and also be triggered by images. Images and sounds (music) may enhance our appreciation of a poem, but ultimately poetry requires words in a natural language. Don't think a computer program could be a poem. You might arrange symbolic representations for memory locations (variables) and instructions (procedures) using words taken from a natural language, but it would unlikely be either a good poem or program.

'Poetic' seems to have a broader connotation than 'poetry'.

I enjoyed looking at the vintage pictures.

 

[bflagsst]

'Poetic' can mean something, as EO hints at, or it can mean absolutely nothing, even less than what 'art' can be represented as. Just because a picture or artwork inspires you to write a poem about it or anything else, doesn't mean the picture is the equivalent of that poem. Poetry needs to be protected against muddling.

 

[butters]

hmmm - poetic. yes, i get that. but when i watch the perfect sunset, or the gathering and unleashing of a storm, a piece of music that has no words but speaks volumes - they move me in the same way that wonderful poetry does - they share that same essence and place a finger straight on my heart, moving me to easy tears. they make me 'feel' them.

 

[annaswirls]

do you not find poetry in a sunset?
the wordless voice of the sea?

there is a difference between something being poetic and something being poetry

 

[annaswirls]

oops someday I will learn to catch up with the whole thread before throwing in my own redundancy

 

[annaswirls]

it's poetry of a sort.

I've started a thread at the GLBT here. It features vintage erotica. Feel free to look and post. The work already posted is stunning.

Raney

oh the thread is BEAUTIFUL!!! Thanks for pointing us over.

 

[The_Fool]

On a side note, I have a vintage picture I really like on my bio page here. I've had it up for years. I can't tell you how many men (always men) actually ask if it's me. I mean I am old, but not that old!

You're not? Good to know...I guess.

 

[hmmnmm]

hmmm - poetic. yes, i get that. but when i watch the perfect sunset, or the gathering and unleashing of a storm, a piece of music that has no words but speaks volumes - they move me in the same way that wonderful poetry does - they share that same essence and place a finger straight on my heart, moving me to easy tears. they make me 'feel' them.

There's times and places when it's nice to know what to call something, and there's times and places when what something might be called matters far less than whether it makes me feel good or if I simply like it for reasons I may have trouble putting into words. Meaning: I'm agreeing with you.

Meaning: the pics this thread point to create enough pleasant feeling that I can't imagine spending much categorization time or energy.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

A Poem lovely as a Tree

 

[Epmd607]

A Poem lovely as a Tree

Poems are made by fools like me/But only God can make a tree.

Only a poet can express the inexpressible. Experiencing God isn't expressing God, and the experience itself is precisely inexpressible. A poet is tasked with expressing what's by definition inexpressible. Everyone has moments of inexpressible bliss, at-one-ment with the Universe and the unicorns. Only poets try and communicate that feeling in the special language that evolved precisely to deal with inexpressible experiences.

 

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

do you not find poetry in a sunset?
the wordless voice of the sea?

or perhaps in a light blue eye ripping into the poet's meaning? Nice AVI, it looks . . . uhm, poetic.

 

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

oh the thread is BEAUTIFUL!!! Thanks for pointing us over.

jest sumptin pretty bout dem nekky girls. sumptin prosy i thinks, yesem.

Thanks for the look!