Linguistics.

An Extraction. In the June issue of Writers Voice, the quarterly magazine of the NSW Fellowship of Australian Writers, the Poetry Editor, David Berger, wrote the following: “A good poem should show something and not tell it. Ballads were fine for earlier cultures, but a modern poem is a reaction to an emotion which is then linguistically encrypted and transmitted through time. When this poem is unpacked, the reader should be able to feel that original emotion: the anger, the fear, the joy.”

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Well, David -

linguistic encrytion is code for making it impossible to understand without a code breaker, then it has to be unpacked.

Blimey, far too much work for we average readers.

To ‘see’ the images.

To ‘feel’ the emotion.

To ‘enjoy’ the easily written, easily understood writers work,

 is far superior to having to decode it.

Understandably, linguistic encrytion is vital to an item which is to be a limited publication, then cloistered in the bowls of academia,

rarely if ever to see the light of day.

Writers will earn a much more handsome income, writing to suit a larger, wider, understanding and appreciative audience.

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Jim Spain – the Rimeriter.

A Writer of Rhyme.

A backward poet who writes inverse.