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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Cutting comments

Cutting comments came
couched in careful italic,
innuendoed flames

7 comments:

Kay said...

Oh, I like this!

Megan Duffy said...

This is wonderful.

human being said...

fire cannot be hidden for a long time... not that we can find it easily... it burns down its hiding place and reveals itself...

think writing poetry is like this too...


beautiful!

Francis Scudellari said...

@Kay & @Megan Thanks!

@hb I was punning on the term "flaming" which is what they call it when people attack each other through blog comments, and which can be very destructive, like fire.

human being said...

yes i got the pun... what i wrote was based on that point...

there is a fire of anger... jealousy... misunderstanding... whatever... we can change it through a catharsis... to make it a constructive fire...

why not turn those feelings into poetry? to heal ourselves in the first place?


fire is always one thing... the way we use it can be destructive... same thing with our emotions...


no?

human being said...

love all your works... they elicit thinking... and this is the best thing art can do...

Francis Scudellari said...

Yes, I absolutely agree. Through poetry even anger can become a creative and transcendental force... purifying.

The thought-provoking goes both ways. I often have to stop and think about what is I wrote after reading your comments :).