thick thunder
By May, I have lost the life in my eyes, from the wars of late-night work-study,
essays due earlier than 11:59pm,
and belly bugs
hundreds of miles away
from where there is
good chicken soup
and Mamí is on the dock,
wavering on crumbling,
concrete stairs to capital
and there are camellias, again
and choked sobs under sun-hats, again
and there is that question, again
"Why did you shave down
your hair like that?"
earnest crest
Is the last line a reference to cancer?
thick thunder
Is the last line a reference to cancer?
up to the interpretation of the reader honestly! i used it with the intention of communicating the feeling of coming back from college changed
but i like that interpretation a lot actually, thank you so much for sharing!
earnest crest
but i like that interpretation a lot actually, thank you so much for sharing!
You always give me the impression of an abstractionist artist. You really lean into the idea of everyone taking away their own meaning. That's completely understandable, but I'm just naturally the opposite. I like to know the story I'm telling or being told. If someone took away a different message than I intended I'd be like "No, that isn't what I was saying" lol
But those are just two approaches to story telling I guess. I'm not well suited to the abstract
You are definitely an artist though. Everything you write is beautiful
thick thunder
You always give me the impression of an abstractionist artist. You really lean i...
that is a completely understandable view! i can definitely understand the need for a concrete message. which is interesting because i do write something with a specific concept in mind, but not necessarily a specific message or moral, so hearing the latter from anyone tells me where anyone from any belief, and anyone from any philosophy, can find themselves after reading the piece - i also am interested in just finding out if i was successful at making the readers think!
thick thunder
You are definitely an artist though. Everything you write is beautiful
thank you so much for this kindness, this means the world to me!! 😊😊
earnest crest
Sorry to spam your comments, but I just wanted to say that this topic reminded me of the great poetic irony of Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"
The irony is that he had a specific message in mind when he wrote it, and it became very famous. But because one specific part of it became more famous than the actual poem, and because that part actually conveys the opposite message of the overarching poem, far more people have taken away the opposite of the moral he wrote about
Now I have no idea if that would have or did bother him at all. But I feel like it would bother me lol
thick thunder
Sorry to spam your comments, but I just wanted to say that this topic reminded m...
honestly considering that frost was very intent with getting his message across i would also be really angry that people would be misinterpreting the poem! i think that because i don't write with a specific message in mind it doesn't bother me necessarily if people take a completely new interpretation of the work but i think if/when i do the last thing i would want is for people to misunderstand it based on a SNIPPET