What
What is not how or why or when or even where
What finds itself distinctly separate
from the above more temporalities and moralities,
as attempting to define some element
of truth in beingness in quality
in order to describe
the is-ness
of this particular
thing
--by Scott Michael Potter
About this poem
In exploring language, linguistics, languaging, and enlanguaging, it behooves this multimedia artist and poet to explore words themselves in ways that question the accepted norm of simplistic usages and inabilities to spell correctly or even comprehend that every word has numerous definitions, let alone Deftnitions as found in my ongoing growing book of the same name that has roots it seems extending back well beyond Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Written on February 18, 2022
Submitted by ScottMPotter on April 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAXXXABX B |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 288 |
Words | 51 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 1 |
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