A Day Is Long Enough To Ruminate Poem by Ananta Madhavan

A Day Is Long Enough To Ruminate

Rating: 4.8


A day is long enough to make
Some room for rumination,
Even when waiting in a queue
To join the right queue or browse
Over an article or happenstance.

To read a book without interpreting
What we read is fatuous and futile.
For words make sense only if you feel
You are like the author, assaying words.
Anyway, it was good we passed or paused
Or parsed the message differently.

Sunday, January 21, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: author,readers,reading,words
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
When we share an experience with a companion, like reading a book
or listening to music, or even conversing with a familiar friend, we
have to rely on words, but we must know that to understand a message
is to 'decode' it.Language is a code.Every decoding is another
encoding.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kim Barney 16 June 2018

A different and unusual topic, but very well presented. Congratulations on having it selected as poem of the day!

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Bernard F. Asuncion 21 January 2018

Ananta, such an interesting write...10+++

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A. Madhavan 22 January 2018

Thank you Poet Bernard Asuncion. I am fortunate in finding you as a reader who can comment with fellow feeling about the lines I posted to PH recently. Only by articulating our impressions can we recognise them when they occur to us in a different context. But words are shifting shadows. Write on. Best wishes. AM

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Ananta, congrats for being chosen for the day👍👍👍

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Robert Murray Smith 16 June 2018

Congratulations on your posting in this category. The whole point of writing is for each reader to apply their own unique minds to the task. Whether this results in what the author intended is problematic. That does not matter, for each reader must make their own sense of the write.

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Kevin Patrick 16 June 2019

Language and communication, are what connect us and what divide us, with the way we humans interpret the meaning, its not just like crossing a bridge, its as if the road is unpaved and the structure is easy to sway. With poetry the semantics fluctuate so much that, what one person reads they interpret differently from someone else. This poem is a thoughtful analysis of the codes of language have on us. Well chosen poem of the day!

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Ratnakar Mandlik 16 June 2019

An innovative and introspective write that deserves poem of the Day. Heartiest congrats.

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Ruta Mohapatra 16 June 2019

Quite true! An interesting poem! Congrats on Poem of Day!

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Kumarmani Mahakul 16 June 2019

For words make sense only if you feel You are like the author, assaying words. Anyway, it was good we passed or paused Or parsed the message differently......so touching and true. Beautiful poem. Thanks and congratulations.

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Dr Antony Theodore 16 June 2019

For words make sense only if you feel You are like the author, assaying words. Anyway, it was good we passed or paused Or parsed the message differently. the day is long enough. very fine poem. tony

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