X Cheap Talk Poem by ONElia AVElar

X Cheap Talk

Rating: 3.7


There was a time
when single word of her
was valued more
than barrel petrol
from the Persian Gulf
by him...
He calls her
daily chatter now
'cheap talk'
and if we look at
a game theory,
it means 'a talk
between the players, which
does not affect
the pay-off'. So, guys...
Back to the Persian Gulf!

Sofia,10. June 2008

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Flora Gillingham 11 June 2008

Free speech is better than cheap talk, isn't it? Keep talking, One! Fx

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Donall Dempsey 11 June 2008

Ha ha great poem! Love the whole set up of it and how you have constructed the lack of conversation. That analogy with oil is birlliantly funny. And the value placed at one stage on even a single beloved word...now merely cheapened to chatter. Your humour is beginning to shine through in your poems and infuse the thought with a lovely gentle sardonc bite. Love the poem...ah...talk is cheap when actual conversation is both rich and strange! love Donall Donall

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Kesav Easwaran 11 June 2008

one can put up with a chatter box...with a chatter barrel? may be he's right! well... leave me, i dont know! ^10^

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The meaning of 'cheap' is connected with its opposite. This poem seems to say: talk is terribly expensive.

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C. P. Sharma 13 June 2008

love can never be demeaning, so let us get back to love......

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Anjali Sinha 01 July 2009

Persian Gulf and those barrels of petrol I like that connection lovely write anjali -10 (if time permits do read some of my poems)

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Indira Babbellapati 24 April 2009

i really liked that metaphor of barrels of petrol...very very contemporary imagery..

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Original Unknown Girl 24 February 2009

Most profound Anelia - really like this one. HG: -) xx

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Florence P. Wordsmith 09 February 2009

A very intriguing piece. Keep up the great writing!

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Ashraful Musaddeq 05 September 2008

Added my 10. Coz- 1. time may change context,2. economics is incorporated! Wonderful presentation.

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