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I realize that king-mi's compliment was not acknowledged.

This is simply because hollow praise might best be ignored.

The only reason I suggest that the praise may be hollow, kingmi, is that you may well have shown by virtue of the rest of your comments that you misunderstood my whole poem.  While there are often simple reasons for such acts of simultaneous commission and ommission, I nonetheless cannot let it go by in so evidently a learned individual as yourself without commenting upon it and giving you an honest poet's best response.  I hope I have not offended you, it was not my intent.  Please continue to comment and read my meagre offerings, as I know I will continue to frequent your very informative Blogs.

posted by Ebb.and.Flow on August 1, 2005 at 2:56 PM | link to this | reply

interesting assemblage of early risers -your perspectives deserve respnse

You are intrigued Mama Dragonfly?  Please check out some of my earlier work, and do stay in touch.  Thanks for stopping by.

This is dark, but very interesting...I like the way you turn a phrase!

~Mama.Dragonfly487 Posted by Mama.Dragonfly on August 1, 2005 at 5:11 AM 

 ebb, no way, dude. this is self-fulfilling prophecy...                                                                                  (what part?  About the untried toreador getting the horns?  Recognize metaphor?) 

When my goals get muddled, I re-tool them, and get back to work.   (interesting coping strategy...  go with it as long as it works for you, my friend.  No as for the diamond line...     that's the moon's reflection in the Sea... the "you" of the poem needed be the reader, although I was toying with the idea of rewriting the poem using the first person pronoun instead of the second.  This would render it the equivalent of another I-voice in the reader's inner monologue.  I don't know about you but the less of those I have, the better!  :)

Now you’re left to mourn your loss,

the Sea yields up her diamond line

towards the horizon’s darkening edge

Great poetry, humanistically unfriendly. If I reject someone's notion of the world, it is not because I think their view is not valid or not as good as mine. It is because I cannot be slowed by bullshit!

Posted by kingmi on August 1, 2005 at 4:45 AM

just because one urges a deeper reading than a reader is prepared to give, doesn't mean this one necessarily rejects another one's or "someone's notion of the world" and I would like you to give me the line(s) or          phrase(s) that triggered such an intriguingly comic thought.  As far as my poem being humanistically unfriendly goes, if trickery, creation, deep-reading, karma, the emotional connotations surrounding images that symbolize unrealized aspirations, and the inalienable feeling that because this is not all there is, what lies ahead must be infinitely better (Time's bitter wine) are not enough humanity or humanism for you, then I guess you didn't go more "enlightened, towards your cage."

Now I can understand you rejecting the fact that this poem requires you to move into a cage, but you could go quietly instead of dissmisively hinting that something you might not really fully understand is "bullshit!"

the_ebb_tide layed this down on August 1, 2005 at 2:45 PM

 

"your Future plans set sail like a west-bound ship." Ouch man! Harsh cause it's true

Posted by Nuttimilius on August 1, 2005 at 4:41 AM

Yeah, sometimes it's a period of denial your in, but when it hits, you know!   You know it, man!  And then you know, you know, that you know!  And the third level hits the hardest.  Thanks for coming by Nuttimilius  (great name, by the way)

posted by Ebb.and.Flow on August 1, 2005 at 2:49 PM | link to this | reply

This is dark, but very interesting...I like the way you turn a phrase!

~Mama.Dragonfly487

posted by Mama.Dragonfly on August 1, 2005 at 5:11 AM | link to this | reply

ebb, no way, dude. this is self-fulfilling prophecy...When my goals get

muddled, I re-tool them, and get back to work.  Great poetry, humanistically unfriendly.  If I reject someone's notion of the world, it is not because I think their view is not valid or not as good as mine.  It is because I cannot be slowed by bullshit!

posted by kingmi on August 1, 2005 at 4:45 AM | link to this | reply

"your Future plans set sail like a west-bound ship." Ouch man! Harsh cause it's true

posted by Nuttimilius on August 1, 2005 at 4:41 AM | link to this | reply