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May 17, 2025  

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draft.. just an odd idea on the deconstruction of what is not generally said in a conversation.
it is of flesh,
of sincere bones
of bad eyes
and tooth on nail

the subject

it is of courage
of pierced ears
of plucked brow
and matters of degrees

the verb

it is of thought
of tawdry wink
of muttered question
and taste of word

the modifier

it is of intent
of dashed lines
of dotted ayes
and length of sentence

the object

it is of spirit
of taut wing
of loose cry
and footprints on snow
Mosquitobyte - on Feb. 28 2008

aaaaah, you knew I'd have to read this, the titles in Deutsche!

The word play here is excellent, from the title onwards. You've done with the title exactly as I do, given the piece more depth with that initial wordplay.

Mos.


Anstey - on Feb. 29 2008
THanks Mos. I wasn't sure it was worth trying to tame into something. You make me think it might be great.
Mosquitobyte - on Feb. 29 2008

Careful Stephan, you shouldn't pay too much attention to my opinions, I'm a hack after all! lol

Besides, you wouldn't want to catch my writing disease, I'm sure.

 

Mos


Derma Kaput - on Feb. 29 2008
I'll have to read this again to see if the poem itself really "does it" for me, but the idea of the poem is incredible.  Seriously.  Incredible.  I spend whole months of days and restless nights trying to stumble across novel ideas like this to build a poem around.  I'll look at it more closely later today.  And then I will curse you for having thought of this before I did.
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