Posted by malthus on September 11, 2004, at 19:02:53
In reply to Do no harm...... Jai's lament, posted by Jai Narayan on September 11, 2004, at 9:28:27
Hi Jai:
This is your best poem that I have read.
..."All communication can tangle into this
in a movie or book it deepens the characters
reveals the plot
In life it hurts
in the struggle of body, mind and heart..."This line really grabbed my attention. With this whole cyber-communication invention it does seem like a script or a book (and even with movies one knows the characters are acting), because it take more effort to actually "see" someone's emotions. But it is real life because we are not writing fiction when we remark on each other's work or communicate about our past or present states of mind.
I was thinking today about a book I read once (can't remember the title) and it contained actual love letters written by prominent poets and novelists. I couldn't put that book down. Granted, the writers knew their lovers before they wrote the poems and prose, but their words have such power, such emotion, and surely affected deeply the recipients of the letters. Really fascinating. I almost felt guilty reading them as they were so intimate.
Please do not "touch the keys with a halting rythym". You have been part of what makes this site unique.
malthus
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