Had to read these a few times before commenting. I usually read a poem twice, once for the language and once to work through meaning -- not necessarily expecting to get exactly what the poem is all about in the fullness of the author's intentions, but at least to get an idea of it, or what it means to me.
Kept getting lost in the language on these ones. :)
Hahha don't know if getting lost in the language is good or bad, probably not great tho ha! Poem #1 is about the disconnect between lust and love/sex and intimacy -how we all have a drive to connect but get lost in the body along the way. Poem #2 is about how we try and control time, mechanize it or make it physical, but how it marches along with its own evolution and the whole time it's passing we are destroying things with our busyness and moral judgments, totally missing that we are burning down our own houses. Poem #3 is the feeling of isolation i have when around believers and how it's not hard to swallow religionn but hard to swallow religions that politicize god and invade on other people's rights. Poem #4 was tongue nonsense - a way to subvert poetry to try and sound like rap (as that's what i was listening to a lot of that year) and yet laughing at my rhythm-less white girl mouth.
oh haha, okay good. i've always had a strange habit of wanting to read a poem a few times then demystify it by reading an annotated version where the author gives a) reveals the style/type/structure of the poem and b) reveals the meaning.
One thing I like about poetry is that the author can be building out their own mental or emotional structure, in fragment or in whole, and you can either find it as intended or reconstruct your own, also in fragment or in whole, out of it.
Basically I respond to poetry the same way I respond to experimental film, abstract art, noize music. Sometimes the meaning is clear, sometimes not. Either way, if it's structured well, it resonates SOMETHING.
Had to read these a few times before commenting. I usually read a poem twice, once for the language and once to work through meaning -- not necessarily expecting to get exactly what the poem is all about in the fullness of the author's intentions, but at least to get an idea of it, or what it means to me.
Kept getting lost in the language on these ones. :)
Hahha don't know if getting lost in the language is good or bad, probably not great tho ha! Poem #1 is about the disconnect between lust and love/sex and intimacy -how we all have a drive to connect but get lost in the body along the way. Poem #2 is about how we try and control time, mechanize it or make it physical, but how it marches along with its own evolution and the whole time it's passing we are destroying things with our busyness and moral judgments, totally missing that we are burning down our own houses. Poem #3 is the feeling of isolation i have when around believers and how it's not hard to swallow religionn but hard to swallow religions that politicize god and invade on other people's rights. Poem #4 was tongue nonsense - a way to subvert poetry to try and sound like rap (as that's what i was listening to a lot of that year) and yet laughing at my rhythm-less white girl mouth.
It was a good thing, not a bad thing.
oh haha, okay good. i've always had a strange habit of wanting to read a poem a few times then demystify it by reading an annotated version where the author gives a) reveals the style/type/structure of the poem and b) reveals the meaning.
One thing I like about poetry is that the author can be building out their own mental or emotional structure, in fragment or in whole, and you can either find it as intended or reconstruct your own, also in fragment or in whole, out of it.
Basically I respond to poetry the same way I respond to experimental film, abstract art, noize music. Sometimes the meaning is clear, sometimes not. Either way, if it's structured well, it resonates SOMETHING.
Ah i like knowing this - thank you for sharing.