poem

So if you write a poem today and live another 60 years, your poem will enter public domain in the year 2145.

So the poem is always a record of failure.

IP was existed literally to protect the fact that it's very expensive to produce an original idea/work/poem/video/etc.

You know that's just a poem on a statue, right, and not actually codified in law?

If a poem's title is longer than its text does it cease to exist?

Based on that single data point, you try to determine how best to modify your native language poem to improve the score.

That poem by Martin Niemöller always strikes me as such a powerful wakeup call.

Stray too far outside of convention and people reading your poem won't understand it.

It's easier to use the steamroller of global goodwill described by the statue poem than it is to simply sharpen the blades of dominance.

A true poem, as Socrates says, is a lyric of the soul.

Having an extended conversation on twitter is as silly as trying to send attachments via phone or publishing a peer reviewed research paper via lyrical poem.

It's a good poem, and not only eclectically on-topic.

I'm seeing some parallels to writing software here: "you’re moved to write a poem because of some transcendent impulse...

One should probably also consider this, from Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall": Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.

Which is why I tell people that the stuff that the "Poetry Society of America" has been plastering NYC subways with is not poetry (none of them care about any of the beautiful traits of a Poem that you enumerated).

I can explain at least one reason to write a rhythym-based poem generator [0] – the problem lends itself to some interesting code:) I'd never claim that it's a valuable tool for creating "art", but it was fun to write and because of it I've thought a lot more about what "art" is and isn't.