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.
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
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.
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!
An innovative and introspective write that deserves poem of the Day. Heartiest congrats.
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.
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
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
A different and unusual topic, but very well presented. Congratulations on having it selected as poem of the day!