Eye Due
Words blindly spoken
and ‘tis a painting, “Tulips
in the Netherlands.”
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Author:
MendedFences27 (
Offline) - Published: August 14th, 2020 12:34
- Comment from author about the poem: Labelled as Love, but with social implications as well. Word play for multiple meanings. Think! Think! Think!
- Category: Love
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I have thunk thunk thunk and can only come up with Max Bygraves ..
.. this exercise has done nothing to help my inferiority complex damn it 🙂
What is the connection to Max?
He recorded 'Tulips from Amsterdam' .. and 'Tears for Souvenirs' ... tulips often being bought as souvenirs by tourists visiting Holland .... and .....
................................................................................... okay so I may be wrong, I did give it my very best tho 🙂
Read it phonetically, read it as written, intermix the two and there are about 5 versions of meaning.
Okay.. got 'cha ..
it definitely made me think and read other's comment responses and try to investigate, but ultimately I am drawn back to my instinctive realisations - at first read,
this reminds me of a poem by the highly imaginative Robert Browning (who also enjoyed teasing his readers), titled 'My Last duchess'
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-4125
Aside, from the obvious painting analogy shared in both works, there is also that sly smirk of undressing the pretentious perspectives of 'some', who: although wanting to come across as humane and cultured, are but ravenous opportunist's of capitalism, scalping nature of her 'Tulip's', living a life in which their most cherished possession is a diamond pointed - 'belt puncher'...
thought provoking and immensely engaging from but a single stanza of your glaringly obvious: prowess!
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