Tristan TzardaMake A Dadist Poem
Dada
daft
deliberately doing
differently
what should be carefully crafted.
Dulally
design
daring
destabilisation
of established order.
Dippy
drawing
doesn’t
do
much for me.
Beauty of line and form + depth of meaning = art
At the Poets’ Pub Victoria has given us an interesting dissertation on Dadaism and the reasons behind it. That’s all very well but I am small c conservative and don’t wish to look at urinals and other ugly stuff. So my poem is anti-prompt!
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I imagine MaMaism would provide a far more sensible approach.
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Of course, but even mamas can have off days.
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And the whole idea, whatever the gender, is too close to the school of upsetting a tin of beans in tomato sauce all over the place and calling it art.
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Or exhibiting a grubby unmade bed, or throwing paint onto a board and cycling over it. The examples of emperor’s new clothesishness abound.
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The vast majority are in that category after encountering the few somewhat mentally deranged individuals who truly believe that there is some mind-shattering profundity in such things.
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a dAdA PROTEST OF dAdA! How cool is that?
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doesn’t
do
much for me.
You summed it all Viv! But it is still fun allowing for a whiff of freshness!
Hank
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Love it and agree wholeheartedly
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Art broke on the dulally
the point without pencil dotted swiss and left for berlin
chagall found a red horse in the sky
and all the swans could cry
were bubbles bouncing rainbows
My answer – it’s all nonsense anyway – moi nonplus – I like that!
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I tagged mine “nonsense poem”…..
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Who would think us seniors could get “into” Dada. Great use of alliteration and I so understand your views on art.
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Such delicious delectable daring audacity at work here; as stated, you got things all Dada’ed up while at the same time identifying the form as empty calories; nice job; still smiling.
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a whole lot of Ds and the last line neatly said…great…
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A anti-dada dadaistisc poem.. that’s just brilliant.. alliteration works perfect.
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nice..an interesting equation there in the close… i see you had fun…smiles
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Viv, I agree with your first stanza. I do think dada is pretty daft!
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In the town where the German Dada poet Hugo Ball was born, the powers that be named a high school after him – Hugo Ball Gymnasium. Everyone was very excited and proud to claim a famous poet among their natives … until they actually read some of his works. 😀 Then there was a clamour of protest – but the name remained and now nobody gets upset. Familiaarity breeds contempt 🙂
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🙂
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smiles…you made your statement….ha….i think there is beauty even in chaos…of course this is preference…i have learned to appreciate form more over the last couple years….
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So can I find beauty in chaos, but it wouldn’t be ‘me’ if there weren’t a bit of protest!
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Being anti the anti is also very good…
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this is very good Viv- i love the flow of <D here- it represents a new world order and makes me think- we need to speak from the soul and let it rain on our world counterparts- especially in the time of the world cup-i know from When Algeria played Russia yesterday-time to Dada
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I loved your Dada poem, which is qite a turnaround.
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thank you Viv, yes <i love to write <dadaism
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This is very good, Viv. I’m afraid that my brain doesn’t understand Dada very well.
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Moi nonplus.
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