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What's In a Name?
What after all, is a name?
A name is a word, a symbol,
composed of symbols,
expressing no reality beyond
the scope of human convenience.
Words and letters
are worldly, feeble
means of expressing ideas,
but better than alternatives.
How could you draw
A pictogram of 'Guilt?'
Words, letters, ciphers, symbols,
nothing more than faulty
road signs on the path to
understanding.
Misleading as often as they
serve to teach the truth.
Imaginary by definition,
They can go no further than
the parent who brings
them forth onto the earth.
Proud parents who show off
their newborn poems to the world.
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Comment by: jkaber - 2006-07-24 13:26
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| Love this one, Sam. The imprecision of language is always something poets struggle with. Love the bit about a pictograph for guilt. I disagree with Teri though, and think the correct way is to put the question mark inside the quotation marks. Guess you'll have to look that one up to be sure. |
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Comment by: Teri - 2006-07-24 12:21
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How could you draw
A pictogram of ??Guilt?? - "Guilt"? (question mark after quote marks)
And I could draw a pictogram of what (who) Guilt should look like, but it would turn out to be a Photoshop representation of my ex b/f. lol
Thought provoking, Sam - to question that which helps define us as individuals: our names. To ponder why we are given these identities and what we should do with them. A great read! |
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Comment by: - 2006-05-05 07:34
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I like this one. It reminds me of an anime episode I watched last week discusing "who am I?" Saying that you are only to be identified through your name and stuff. Cool.
[x].Peace.[x] |
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Comment by: - 2006-04-19 18:26
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| I like this very much and find your thought process sharply focused and your presentation here on language original and clear. I espescially enjoy your analogy to offspring in the last stanza. You're so well spoken in fact that I wonder if this deserves more of your uniques vocabulary and images than the "signs on the road" description- because thats familiar while the rest is surely all yours and refreshing. |
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From someone who uses many many names... I LOVE it! So true that parents brand us with a name, and push us out into the world as their work, and we are that, indeed...until we write our own.
perfect writing, Sam. |
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