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Old 07-27-2009, 05:13 AM   #11
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You've crushed my grand illusions of ever being a poet.
I certainly didn't mean to. I could never hope to become a master poet beyond comedic poetry, as in limerick writing. I always had troubling putting words on intricate subjects like emotion, which is what a poet is expected to do. The poem I showed you was written just a year after I turned against the Christianity I always believed, when my anger against the religion was the most vehement.


On the contrary, I loved your poem. I myself don't often write poetry, but every now and then one pops into my mind. Most times I forget to save them and have no copies. Even then there have only been a few that I have written, well maybe more then a few over the years. From there I am only left with bits and pieces, fragments, not unlike oral traditions?

Perhaps it is that this is not unlike ancient man, who found it necessary to record their joys and sorrows, their triumphs and tragedies, their victories and defeats, then save them. The beauty was there, as was the ugly, and it would be for future generations to figure them out.


Just as unfortunate, we have no record of the ancient individual, how he truely perceived himself, juxtaposed against the tribe, other then perhaps scribbles in a cave. We have little record of his joys and sorrows, his tragedies and triumphs, his victories and defeats. The beauty that he really wanted to be, contrasted against the confusion and the ugly that life sometimes becomes. Why? Were they not allowed him?

And yet, we live in different times, and the motto of the day is 'live out loud'.

And so I'll add another scribble..............

The Facts of Life, a Trinity

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O?

Everyone wants the a high priced woman until they get one?


O.

The cost.

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O!

Love lifts us up where we belong, where the eagles fly over mountains high...

eta: And so that there is no confusion, I sent that poem to my children as well. Titled as well, Critical thinking,
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Is your poem about a three-way with a married couple and a female escort? I don't know what else it could mean. See, you make your poetry profoundly nuanced like that, and it flies over my blockhead. Oh, I get it, the top line is the title. Wait a minute, you say its titled "Critical thinking." Head asplode.
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Is your poem about a three-way with a married couple and a female escort? I don't know what else it could mean. See, you make your poetry profoundly nuanced like that, and it flies over my blockhead. Oh, I get it, the top line is the title. Wait a minute, you say its titled "Critical thinking." Head asplode.
What pronouns do you use to describe yourself?


I imagine one could use anything to describe a trinity.


When you speak, for whom are you speaking, and from whence is your source?
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