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- From: satan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew James Meyer)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: Re: a little something..
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 16:11:44 GMT
- References: <2294@loke.dc.luth.se>
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- In article <2294@loke.dc.luth.se> ingsa@dc.luth.se (Ingvar Strand) writes:
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- > ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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- > Losing the foothold of life a little, floating up
- > to new heights and soaring high above all the
- > daily problems. Letting ones mind roam around
- > freely within the space of thoughts and exploring
- > new vast areas of thinking. Gaining new amazing
- > powers of observation but still looking at the
- > world as trough a whole array of smoothing
- > glasses, filtering, leaving only the positive in
- > things. Letting oneself slowly and gracefully
- > fall and bounce up again on the endlessly soft and
- > pink clouds of emotions filling the skies of the
- > land within. Then perhaps just a misplaced word
- > or action, sharp as the finest sword, cutting
- > through your world like lightning form a thousand
- > storms. Creating destruction and darkness, as
- > swift as flipping a switch, devastating as sudden
- > total blindness. You're falling and falling, like
- > shot down from a clear blue sky, crashing down
- > the seemingly never ending pit of darkness, and
- > yet hitting ground with brute force as thrown from
- > the heights of eternity, feeling every split
- > moment while you are being scattered all over
- > space as though each takes a full eternity to
- > complete. Plunging forward in nothingness seeing
- > the tiny light behind you getting smaller and
- > smaller. Then through time you'll turn numb and
- > eventually apathetic, the gray dullness of the
- > ordinary day and life will take over and the days,
- > weeks and years will slowly be ticking by. As
- > time passes your wings will start to heal and the
- > good and bad memories mix to form a new layer on
- > the pile of experiences, to be hidden and
- > forgotten or used and learned from. Then perhaps
- > one day you meet again someone who can light the
- > fire inside, and hopefully you will dare your
- > wings once more, maybe slowly at first, kind of
- > probing to see if they can carry your weight,
- > before you throw yourself over the edge, onto the
- > unpredictable winds of emotions, once again
- > soaring high above the gray surface of ordinary
- > life. Perhaps one day you will be my wife.
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- a little bit of criticism you may choose to totally disregard if you like...
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- a phrase i have often heard from poets, authors, professors is:
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- "show, don't tell"
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- in your work you have mixed some really vibrant images with explanations
- of what they are. it is my suggestion that you take the same work and
- eliminate the explanations. let the images say what you are thinking and
- leave it to the reader to find the meaning. the reader, if experienced
- in interpretation OR having been been thru those same emotions, will
- at least intuitively understand what you are saying. They will get
- the feel of the work without you telling them - you showed them.
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- in specific, leave out phrases and words like:
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- "lives little problems"
- 'let the mind roam" - the roaming is good, don't tell them its you mind
- "positive things" - use an image
- "powers of observation" - don't tell them you have powers of observation
- show them, steve martin did this very weell in the movie "Roxanne", in a
- letter to daryll Hannah he said something to the affect of "you changed your
- hairstyle the other day, just a little, but i noticed, though noonwe else did"
- (not exactly poetic, but important )
- "emotions"
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- "winds of emotion" - winds, i like... of emotion, i don't using an image of
- wind without attaching 'of emotion' may bve just as affective
- /efffective
- good and bad memories" - use images, an iomage of a good or bad memory
- "time passes" - use an image that signifies the passage of time- clocks,
- calandaers, seasons, hair, skin, holidays, weather
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- etc. etc.
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- i hope this makes some sense...
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- this is just one persons thoughts, feel free to ignore them if you like
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- -satan
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