🅃🄾🆆︎🄽🅸︎🅴︎ ꪶꪮꪮ𝘬 ᭙ꫝꪖ𝓽 𝓘 𝓲᭙𝘳ꪮ𝓽ꫀ

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  orchidee June 23rd, 2022 02:13

  Great title there!

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  L. B. Mek June 23rd, 2022 04:28

  Awe inspiring, what poetic genius
  you choose to share, dear Poet
  (there is so many ways to read and interpret
  but for me
  that your continent, is so sparsely
  inhabited
  makes this dialogue, so poignant
  a land where its Prime Minster
  can go missing
  and its not even that widely remembered
  or known
  insures, people like me
  can never fully understands
  the cultural mappings and workings
  so yeah, the progressive
  are the renting 'townies'
  while the backwater, unknowing
  own, their lands
  but
  are marginalised in importance
  sadly, its the same story all over..)
  well that's my skewed reading
  forgive me
  
  

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    Pearcemelville 兎敏June 23rd, 2022 07:57

    An intriguing aspect of writing, for
    me, is the myriad of ways in which words are interpreted. The reader brings baggage which is unpacked and combines with the narrative to form the reader's personal perspective and understanding. Unless the author appends annotations, the work is free of the writers influence once the pen is set down. You bring your own insights to bear.
    
    I shall tell you the story which motivated this poem. I was recently
    ordered off the stage during an open mic night, midway through my last poem, as a result of replying to the question on whether we the audience like sculptures in Canberra.
    
    I objected to a statue of a lady at the airport with spreadeagle limbs welcoming people to Canberra. Before my imminent departure when I commented that I don't feel accepted here, a girl said, "We
    get bush poets here sometimes." Perhaps it is the meter of my poems, possibly my looks with scraggly beard.
    
    So I decided to enact blunt revenge through a series of poems. Blunt because they do not strike the ears of this clique of local poets that I name a silencing of poets, and I have no intention that they should. I am not vindictive, well, overtly vengeful, but rather keep things inside. I release through telling others not connected and now, a new forum in poetry.
    
    I hope this gives some clarification. The first poem mixes a playful group of collective nouns around a court in the case if a silencing of poets.
    They try to use sweet words but are hampered by adherence to form = dulcet diatone = The strict structure of musical scales that disallow discordant notes. This confinement to rigid guidance hampers creativity. Voiced praise is frowned upon, wait until they are off the stage and tell them un private. No! I want all to hear about the reasons why I think his poem is good. But alas not here and now.
    
    So they remain a closed unit, yearning for acceptance by the group, offer subdued applause and wait another week. I have things to do and places to go, so I walk past them now, strengthened by rejection and have harvested a series of poems.
    
    Then comes Townie, like yourself, who stumble across my poems and praise me, who understand what I write snd show appreciation beyond a cursory glance This boosts my confidence and vigour. I am grateful for folk such as you.
    Townie is his name and he produces enhanced prints of original art and photographs.
    Both of us have emerged from dark periods of anguish. We embrace a new sense of positivity through creation.
    
    There is no pandemonium now, in reference to a previous poem that describes a vexed and crowded mind.
    It is not darkening on the focus, the title of a poem about troubled and crowded mind.
    
    The differing fonts in the title and final line represent Townie's alternative designs and our numerous persona.
    For me, they are my English, Chinese and Japanese names.
    
    Thank you LB Mek again for your time and thoughts. I periodically remind myself to read your poems, make time
    曾达! then get caught up in my own head and time. I feel a bit guilty but know that I should not fret, just remember to spare some moments for you ❤️
    

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    L. B. MekJune 24th, 2022 02:27

    'I am not vindictive, well, overtly vengeful,'
    (the wisdom and self awareness in these words
    is what i aspire for...!
    I think, sadly
    genius' like you, are so overlooked in our society
    because people in general, are scared of intellect
    because it is so hard to counter or compete with
    'just look at the politicians people choose'
    so sadly, you will be contested early
    before you gather momentum
    they are just trying to survive, scared to lose
    their place on the ladder of life..
    but you already know this and seem to be handling it
    with class and patience..
    'and i would like to see the feminist's reaction to such a statue')
    lol
    don't worry about reading my little scribbles
    you just do you, keep on sharing your brilliance
    and I will do me best to read and comprehend
    your genius!
    thanks for choosing to share

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