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Five minutes of Humor on my part, and it is done... (heh)
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2005-09-16 12:53:19 Posted by Mel ()
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To write this, I used a juxtaposition of what I am doing (not physical labor) to something I am not. (physical labor) My humor.
I gave you the framework, and if I did this right, you filled in many of the details that personalized this for you. You credit me for work you (or God) has done. Humor again.
Were you mopping the floor? Or scrubbing the tub? Digging in the dirt? Or putting tar on the roof? Were you bucking bales of hay? For everyone, this open verse should be something different.
If you tasted the sweat because I mentioned it going into your eye, and then asked you what you tasted, I got the response I wanted. Myabe some of you felt your hair falling and were blowing it out of your eyes as you worked. Others may have drawn a hand across their brow. I am certain that others will do things in their minds eye that I had not imagined. Therein lies the beauty of this kind of expression.
I have seen poetry describing the wonderous colors of a sunset, that because it went too far, it destroyed the image for me. In my experience, often less is more in such a case. You cannot describe a rainbow adequately to a person who is blind, so why bother? Rather describe enough that the particular kind of sunset, or rainbow, or storm, or ocean wave becomes evident. The readers mind will fill in a lot with only the minimum of cues.
In a way, this is trickery. And yet in another, the expression can be more pure and focused upon what you want to express.
Write, and be free. The worst of what you put down can still be the best of meaning for you, and that matters more than all of what the rest of the world could say.
God created us in his image. He is a creator. Can we not be too, in some small way?
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2005-09-16 13:16:55 Posted by Mel ()
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And as an aside, it took me longer to write that explanation than it did the poem. Look at the parables of Jesus when he explains them. Again, my humor, even with God. Isaac. He laughs, and I laugh with him...
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2005-09-16 13:24:39 Posted by Mel ()
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