Trembling, Scintillating, Vibrating, Rocking Stuff

 “…anything that can be perceived is reality”

This discovery is doing things with MY imagination,

a wonderful definition of reality, people should pool

their perceptions and the concomitant views should

be reality – oh wait, this is what we are doing already

and the majority consensus keeps all minority groups

hostage - when a group of people use the imagination

to augment a leader’s ideas and concepts, they claim

to have FOUND reality; whereas they have CREATED

their unique VERSION

I like the reality you create - your version and how you

arrive at your conclusions - makes it possible to enjoy

poetry, yesterday I said poetry bores me and I am glad

most people are antagonistic to poetry,  though it is not

really true; everybody ADORES poetry - as long as it is

presented within modern musical harmonies and rhythm

but we all HATE the ANALYSIS and SCHOLARSHIP that

accompanies studies of poetry where appreciation and

high standards are prescribed, we become imprisoned

by academics –

We hate poetry as presented in lectures and classes and

detest analysis when forced to follow rules – but WE ALL
love poetry as a free activity to play with – and I adore Terry

Pratchett: GUILDS – the Guild of Thieves, the Guild of Music

FORCE all to follow Guild guidelines and pay membership

fees; Prachett symbolises, personifies and makes proverbial

examples of our prescriptive, outdated, fossilised academic

faculties – especially those trying to degrade poetry to the

status of the dodo or dinosaur

While in real life trembling, scintillating, vibrating, rocking stuff

is created by Alternative Groups - who shall be hailed by later

generations, those setting academic and textbook standards 
are brilliantly portrayed in Pratchett’s Guilds while his social 
comments help me recognise and come to terms 
with my own aversions…