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Maybe, it’s just me, but…

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Leo

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My mind can not comprehend a meaning.

Surely, you merely, poke fun;

content to tease less agile minds

……………..sliding words along,

a string of pearls nicely strung,

glossed with an aura of interrelated-import,

advancing only themselves across the page.

The meter, the sound, the flow is sweet

but what do you…. so delightfully…… decline to say?

Do you at night giggling safely in your bed,

berate yourself for naughtiness,

or…..crying, fear your efforts wanting?

Listen…there!…. Listen.  Are you repeating what you hear?

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10 responses to “Maybe, it’s just me, but…”

  1. Anne Avatar
    Anne

    Reminded me of the fuss surrounding the whole 50 Shades publishing phenomenon. What the heck is all that about? Are we going to wake up next year and go, how the dickens did that book get to be a multi-million bestseller? and all suddenly come to our senses? here’s hoping! 🙂
    By the way, I really like the rhythm you incorporate here with that ellipsis – it really does string us along. 🙂

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    1. Leo Avatar
      Leo

      I’m glad Harley (one of our dogs) got me up early this morning because you have made my day! I had to look up “ellipsis”; see…you force me to learn stuff! Leo

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      1. Anne Avatar
        Anne

        haha! 🙂 Glad to be of service, sir!

  2. ruleofstupid Avatar
    ruleofstupid

    WHat I like most is that the doubt at the beginning balances the ‘questioning’ of the poetry. It works as a critics doubts, a doubt of poetry – but also as a reader hoping, just hoping, the poet has more feeling for the reader than she says. Nice.

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    1. Leo Avatar
      Leo

      Thanks, so much. I agree, if I understand you; we need to keep our expectations high even if we are disappointed often. Leo

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  3. Leo Avatar
    Leo

    If one takes his words too….too seriously they taste really horrible when you have to eat them.

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    1. Susan L Daniels Avatar
      Susan L Daniels

      YES!!!!!!

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  4. Susan L Daniels Avatar
    Susan L Daniels

    Oh! Love this.

    … Hope you are not talking about me–that is my secret fear, that I will be found out as a trickster or a fraud, and not really a poet one day, you see…

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    1. Leo Avatar
      Leo

      Susan, I certainly would not be talking about you! You are very concise in what you say and your meanings….that is what I enjoy. I am not speaking of anyone in particular…this was actually written several years ago after reading some poems by a young lady (whose name I dont remember) who was the new darling of the “professional poets”. Her writing was just way above my pay grade. I guess, I wrote this for my ego (maybe she was just pulling everyones leg since I could not make heads or tails of it). This post was prompted by a conversation with KB after his posting of the Stevens poem. I have a need other than just enjoyment of sounds and images to understand what a poet is really trying to say. Stevens has been for me a difficult read……anyway…too much info! Leo

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      1. Susan L Daniels Avatar
        Susan L Daniels

        Never enough info, Leo–I like to “talk” to you! I could not resist my comment, as I think most of us who write think someday we will be found out and called on the carpet as fakers 😉

        This, of course, springs from the fact that few of us take our own words seriously.

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