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  • Some 1970's musicians & acts...

    ABBA, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, Elton John, all at the top of their form...how could I miss? That was the decade when I came of age as a musician/songwriter (and I was still in my teens). Of course, that was also the decade of disco... The 1970's (depending on who you ask about any of the above, or of so many other acts and styles) were ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on February 6, 2008

  • (שלום) My upcoming trip to Jerusalem

    Fellow Poems Fraysters, Not many of you know that I will be departing at the end of December for an extended trip -- most of which will be spent in Jerusalem, Israel. The following blog summarizes the trip as it stands now (and you should be able to read the blog, given the settings I have on the page). While the primary purpose is to attend a ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 19, 2007

  • Re: Poetry as song as poetry and belief systems

    Dear MaryAnn, I hope you'll catch my other reply to you -- the one that addresses why I submitted this Psalm as poetry. It covers some of the issues raised here. Again, no one in the specialties involved -- no one -- doubts that the Psalms (taking just the words alone) are poetry. No one considers them prose or even prose poetry. But biblical ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007

  • (תהללים) Thursday OPP: Psalms 24

    Thursday OPP – Psalms 24Let us begin with just the consonants of the Masoretic Text: לדוד מזמורליהוה הארץ ומלואהתבל וישבי בהכי הוא על-ימים יסדהועל-נהרות יכוננהמי-יעלה בהר יהוהומי-יקום במקום קדשונקי כפים ובר לבבאשר לא-נשא לשוא נפשיולא נשבע למרמהישא ברכה מאת יהוהוצדקה מאלהי ישעוזה דור דרשיומבקשי פניך יעקב סלהשאו שערים ראשיכםוהנשאו פתחי עולםויבוא מלך ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 12, 2007

  • ()() Earthlight Orchestra: Laughter, Tears & Dreams

    Here is the latest (and final) edition of my self-produced collection of MIDI-to-WAV compositions, Laughter, Tears & Dreams. (In the spirit of poetry, or rather of melopoesis: this link will take you to to six MIDI-to-MP3 versions of five songs, with lyrics where appropriate.) MySpace: Earthlight Orchestra wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on November 27, 2007

  • Unintentional deconstructionism?

    Dear Angel and All, I don't subscribe to the notion that people can't share my viewpoint in poetry or song (or prose such as this). While inevitably there will be some gaps in mass communication, if I haven't communicated my message to others fully and successfully, then my first assumption is that I, not they, have failed. If I have succeeded ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on November 21, 2007

  • Re: Thoughts on Poetry

    Hi Denny, For once I don't believe a word that Frost is saying. When someone -- anyone, from an author to a religionist -- starts trying to use words to deny the power of words, that's when I tune out. I take this as an axiom: words (especially words with music: melopoesis) can express anything humans can understand, and some things that they ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on November 9, 2007

  • Re: Si, amigo, exactimento ...

    Yes, Romance languages are fun in that way. You can't do that with Hebrew nearly so well, but Hebrew has its own special euphony -- and nothing beats Semitic languages for describing states of action through their euphony. I have to agree that no dialect of Chinese I've heard (so far, Mandarin, Cantonese and a little Hunan) has euphony as its ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 27, 2007

  • Melopoesis can teach us something here...

    Indirectly, I addressed elsewhere (to V.) the moderate-to-left spectrum of Jewish faith and practice and how a rabbi on that side would be in as much a conundrum as one on the moderate-to-right side. This brings me to another thought. While your very plausible materialist and judgmental scenario works on the left, it also works on the right. The ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 17, 2007

  • Re: Loreena McKennitt

    Thanks for the tip-offs! I can't see all of the texts without registering for the various sites, but I see you've been very busy in letting people know who's said what where. This channel and this channel on YouTube will give you abundant examples of what I mean by biblical Hebrew ''melopoesis'', thanks to the decipherment (and modern ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 11, 2007
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