Last night, before I drifted off to sleep I had the following "poem" in my head, and I thought it worthy of mention here. After all, it is better than some of the other stuff I've posted (although that's not saying much).
Why
When I look up to the sky
Do I see
Myself
The way the world sees me?
Alone.
Great mirror in the sky,
I want to ask why
But I fear no soul can hear me.
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2 comments:
oh, this is lovely :) *looks up to aditya*
why did you ask why in the poem and then say that you want to ask why but was worried you wouldn't be heard? do you mean that the speaker is going to ask why whether or not they're heard?
the way you put alone on a single line and as the only line that didn't rhyme was great.. aaw, I feel ashamed at trying to write the drivel I do when I read this poem.
T__T I went to give you a cd filled with rubbish (erm, I mean, music) today but you weren't at wentworth and I couldn't find you after your info lecture :(
"why did you ask why in the poem and then say that you want to ask why but was worried you wouldn't be heard?"
Short answer? You think too much, I think too little. Longer answer? I think the second "why" is the universal question, asking someone, anyone, be it God or man, why everything is the way it is. Does that make any sense?
"do you mean that the speaker is going to ask why whether or not they're heard?"
No, not really, although I suppose that's a possible interpretation. I don't think there's anything wrong with interpreting something like art in a different way to that which the author was thinking of, I don't think the meaning is necessarily linked to the intent. What do you think?
"aaw, I feel ashamed at trying to write the drivel I do when I read this poem"
Then my work here is done!
"I went to give you a cd filled with rubbish (erm, I mean, music)"
Same difference..
"but you weren't at wentworth and I couldn't find you after your info lecture :("
I was too! Oh, although Gazza and I decided to go to Broadway since it seemed to offer more in the way of things to do than Wentworth. So I guess that's another successful avoidance of you by me!
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