ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

See that's exactly what I meant by over thinking things, it could have been that he just made a boo boo ?


Bit like trying to analyse American Pie


Bob

I got analysis paralysis analysing American Pie.....but I cracked it....it's about the crucifixion.

Yeats, make a boo boo? Me thinks not.

I think it's a beautiful piece of poetry - anyone to argue that it isn't poetry because it rhymes the same words? Dare ya!!!

Never said it was not poetry BUT

Why couldn't he make a mistake I assume he was human ???

I make quite a few ?

Robert

Particularly with question marks...

Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope.... That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.
SEAMUS HEANEY, Paris Review, Fall 1997

Sorry Glenny, only Don Mclean knows what all of the lyrics in American Pie mean and he still wont tell!

Hellooo Vic. Yeah, well that's as much as my poor old brain cells could tease out...

No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen.
Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
ROBERT FROST, "New Hampshire"

Robert Frost was a very perceptive and articulate thinker on things poetical. And a wonderful, dare I say; bush poet.