if i do not say what i need to say,
when it need be said
what happens to the words, unspoken,
fallen soldiers, like the dead?
Floating out into some great void,
asking for directions, lost...
will they be of use some day,
or mould like spring in frost?
could it be that they are saved,
for some greater speech to come?-
or could they be unused forever,
the mouth eternal dumb.
And what of the words,
spoken like a fountain,
filling up the days of man,
with shadow like a mountain?
is there a landfill for such abuse,
to recycle it, make it better?
or does it sit like highway trash?-
O, bold, forgotten letter.
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oh, this one is so cool too! my gosh, how do you spit out amazing poems like this so close together? is something wrong? (i ask b/c often to write poetry is to be sad... at least according to amanda).
ReplyDeleteUmm, I just sort of ... do?
ReplyDeleteI disagree with Amanda. Strongly. To write poetry is to have felt or feel an emotion strongly and be able to record that emotion in the context of language and imagery. Although, for most people, sadness is the best comprehended emotion.
...you've heard how extreme amanda's ideas of poets are. i feel there is no need to clarify them. i wonder if she'll think these two (this one and last one) are also about kidnapping... (you were the kidnapper, right? and mimi was the terrorist... and here i was feeling bad all mine were about birth/abortion)
ReplyDeletei agree with you though, to some extent. it's not always about strong emotion. sometimes it's just having fun with words, at times even mockery. i don't think that's emotion in the same context you use it.
I think I was the kidnapper...
ReplyDeleteMaybe, but only on the surface- there is more to it. The avenger of the world, rejected by it.
Well, in either case, we are all killing and destroying things, it seems.
i suppose I must agree with you. there is a levity to it.
amanda only reads things on the surface. how do you think she came up with birth for all of mine?
ReplyDelete...for some reason that sounds like batman.
ya... man, amanda must have a twisted mind.
thats a cool word: "levity" i don't think i've heard it before. it sounds like it would be a word that translators of tanach, etc would use for something. (btw, i do know what it means). maybe i just think that because that word reminds me of a gemarah we learned in seventh grade (about davening seriously).