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VAS
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since 2000-11-16
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0 posted 2002-08-01 09:45 AM



Hey!

come on, Pen,
come to the point!
you spill words onto the page
sometimes as if in a dance,
other times as if
tumbling over
a  waterfall,
and at times,
bleeding emotions
onto the page
as if there were only moments
left
before your ink dried
into a clogged, caked mass.

what’s your aim?
where do you plan to carry me?
whom do you hope to change?
me or the reader?

do you have any real intent?
what’s your bent?
to what extent
do you plan to play out your days?
in what ways
would you serve me,
or am I
serving you?

Am I the one
to merely support you,
while you take flight
in your whimsy
or is this your flimsy
excuse for a goal
one you’ll make known
some day,
on a “need-to-know”
basis?

Come to a point,
you with your head down,
scratching the surface
with idioms, syntax
and semantics. Come on,
what’s your destination?!


©July 31, 2002

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

© Copyright 2002 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
WhiteRose
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since 2002-07-23
Posts 3208
somebody's dungeon
1 posted 2002-08-01 09:50 AM


Oh I love this. I've had this talk with my pen many times.
Neeraja
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since 2002-06-22
Posts 812
The Netherlands
2 posted 2002-08-01 10:43 AM


Ever thought of using the computer to write?



Enjoyed your poem!!!

Neeraja

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
3 posted 2002-08-01 10:48 AM


VAS
Clever write, enjoyed.

VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon
4 posted 2002-08-01 10:51 AM


hahahaha, Thanks, White Rose, Neerja and Sy, glad you liked.

Almost all my writing's on the computer, but it's rather unwieldy in a poem, i.e. "The computer is mightier than the sword." Somehow it just doesn't hold much poetic power as an extension of the mind, arm and hand.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

[This message has been edited by VAS (08-01-2002 10:52 AM).]

Sunshine
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5 posted 2002-08-01 11:12 AM



You DARE ask the muse?
LOL...
Enjoyed this!

paladin
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6 posted 2002-08-01 11:35 AM


I like to write my poems with a dry erase marker on a white plastic message board.I can't seem to be creative using the computer.

paladin

VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon
7 posted 2002-08-01 11:44 AM


oooh, paladin, that is so temporary, must be something rather poetic about the nature of that, even


LOL, Sunshine, didn't think about the Muse while writing this one, hehehehe, was thinking of the pen point and "what's your point?" as being a great pun, also, often wondering what or where or why my incessant writing goes on. Like, if there is a point to it other than clicking my minutes away.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

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