Maybe others cannot see so plainly
The meaning of the words, nor hear as loudly
The sounds they shape when proclaimed so proudly
Nor smell the decay they rise from vainly
Maybe others exist in nonliterate terms
And feel their apathy or angst more innately
From pinpoints of pain they can share it but vaguely
And never reveal what fire there burns.
Monday, April 17
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5 comments:
Word fanatic!
Thanks for the comments =)
what do you mean by "existing in nonliterate terms"?
This poem has deep roots, I am far from understanding.
Hi Nicola, thanks for stopping by again. By "nonliterate" I simply meant that perhaps some people feel things in a more elemental sense of the world and their own emotions and don't necessarily have a commentary track running inside their head or need to descriptively label everything.
It probably was a bad choice of words because it almost sounds like illiterate or something, when I certainly didn't mean anything like this. I just wonder a lot about how people's minds work, and if other people have the same internal dialogue I do or whether they are more zenlike and can see things for what they are without putting a name to them.
Like the idea of whether what you call blue is anything subjectively like was I call blue - this kind of argument on a grander scale. Who knows? Interesting to think about.
i think there's a definite separation between an understanding of the emotional or intentional meaning of the written/spoken word and the creation of the same. Like the person who loves music but does not create it. or the discerning movie-goer who has no idea how to make a film.
at the same time, i think there are many people who ply neither 'trade', who are indifferent to the meanings of words. they have, perhaps, consciously decided to abandon the artifice of human language for a more 'natural' approach. or, more likely, they're just cretins who don't know any better.
Cretins, lol. You got somethin' against people from Crete? :)
yeah, they're cretins. duh.
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