Question 33


If you didn’t find me

in the eyes
of your lover

how

are you going
to find me

in a poem?

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Beautiful!!! =D>

You’ve done something I like here: you’ve delivered in very few words. Good.

Rainey, your words are like little bursts of fire–hitting straight to the heart and soul and capable of doing so with very few.

This is my favorite of yours so far.

This is a down poem, I love what you said in so little words.

Thanks everybody. :smiley:

If someone gets recognition for being “pound for pound” a great fighter, then you should get a “word for word” award. :slight_smile: That’s a lot of meaning packed into a very few syllables.

A-1 poem rainey. Is the entity posing the (rhetorical) question love? That was what was my initial interpretation, but I concede that it could be anything. You may not have had a deliberate identity in mind to affix to this entity, and the anonymity of that’s cool.

You know --try not to roll your eyes at this-- there’s a Williams’ quality to this poem. It’s probably nothing more than the line=stanza strucure of how the poem is laid out on the page, but there’s a slight resemblance in tonal quality as well to some of his poems - not necessarily the plums poem.

N.

I think this qualifies for pound-for-pound as well as word-for-word as phaedrus suggested.

N.

Thanks Phaedrus, thanks Nels.

Nels, I would say that “love” is probably close enough to what I had in mind.