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Gaelynsgirl Member
since 2008-07-18
Posts 175Ont. Canada 
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The recycling of passion I have always had a dislike for thieves, lazy shiftless brigands all, yet I now find myself in need of confession. Having picked the pockets of poets and rifled through their dreams, what lays before me but the booty of ages. I drop their coin in my vest of memory and clutch it to my breast lest other light-fingered felons trace the outline and mark me as easy. This coveting of something lovely, something I have seen or heard burns with a passion until I can no longer bear the swelling inspiration. It threatens to burst my seams of reason unless I make it mine, some perfect shape that I can render, that I can do justice. And through the years I take the old and with some polish and cranial grease, give it a new shine, hold it up and claim as mine. And I thought we had invented recycling. |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
it reads very nice. and leaves me wondering about the kind of poetic sentiments you have stolen. haha |
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Gaelynsgirl Member
since 2008-07-18
Posts 175Ont. Canada |
Thank you for responding Kaile! Nothing specific, but with a living language we are bound to appropriate words sometimes when they reflect in perfection, some metaphor or idea that we must communicate. Is it wrong to do this? WH Auden once said, "Mediocre authors borrow, great authors steal!"It worked for Shakespeare. Plots were borrowed from the stories of others. I think that what matters is what you do with it. How you use it in your own original frame of reference. I'll have to think more on this. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Aha...wonder how much of this is done intentionally and how much subconsciously...James |
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Gaelynsgirl Member
since 2008-07-18
Posts 175Ont. Canada |
Some of each I shouldn't wonder James. When we read with passion and compassion, the matter is embedded, so I can see both pathways as possibilities to an exit. Interesting thoughts to contemplate. |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Don't feel too bad. There's a quote that says something to the effect of "the best writers steal." |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Hey this was in prose forum too. I like it still. I'm glad there's a forum here to vent our anxieties. Life's short. Think hard! |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Woops. I thought this was the adult forum.. How'd I get here? |
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Gaelynsgirl Member
since 2008-07-18
Posts 175Ont. Canada |
Hahaha... Fractal... We read what we want to read. You probably saw the word passion and....well... it is adult, just another layer of the word! with smiles Lynda |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
I quite agree with you. SO often something you read excites the need to turn a phrase in answer or maybe just in that mood.You have it right. "late" |
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