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A poem is more than one thing--

It is not just what awakened in the poet and wanted out... It is also what it awakens in the reader... each reader, a different awakening.  No matter what the poet intends, or means, the poem will form different intents with the different minds it enters.

So--it is interesting to know what the poet had in mind, and as a poet, I love to hear what others discover in the words I laid down, and so to discover that the poem, like any of my children, has gone on its own way without me, and comes home again to teach me things I didn't know, show me things I didn't realize.

posted by Ciel on December 26, 2010 at 11:10 AM | link to this | reply

I am never fond of explaining my poetry because I always want to see what the reader got from it without a prompt! The only thing I really contend is that my imagery is not about me! sam

posted by sam444 on February 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM | link to this | reply

I DO HATE TO EXERCISE AND I DO HATE TO DIET....
WE ARE DOING BOTH. ....BIG SIGH.

posted by Kabu on February 23, 2010 at 9:59 AM | link to this | reply