Re: The earliest asci-art...

Sharleen wrote:
> 
> > Free form poetry is extremely old and there was a time they used that
> > poetry to make a picture out of the verses. for example: ...
> > Simple, yes, but I'm sure you know what I am refering to. So maybe we
> > should give those poets the true discovery of Ascii Art?  Just a thought
> > from the depths of my awakenings. What do you other artists and lurkers
> > think?
> 
> I remember seeing some of those type poems in one of my high school
> English texts.  Some were amazingly intricate.  But that's definitely a
> cool idea.  I don't think that I've seen any ASCI poems/pictures online as
> of this moment, and now that I think of it I find that quite surprising...
> Are any of you aaa folks poets?  I'm new to the ASCI art element of the
> combo, but I'll see if I can come up with something...
> 
> sharleen


Uhh, yes I am a poet (hence the title of my home page 'Poems by
Donovan')and I have thought about doing this for some time, but for some
reason never tied the poetry and ascii-art ideas into one thought in my
head until yesterday. SO Tomorrow I'll convert one of my poems into one
of those and post it. *S*

-- 
Peace,

Donovan


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