I'd ask what inspired this...but the point of poetry is for it to be meaningful to the author. Any pleasure / emotional identification the reader gets is secondary to that.
The inspiration twas rather amusing, actually. I was brousing a friend's LJ and she had put a few quotes from the Series Finale of Angel. One of them was, "Do you want me to lie to you?", and it sprouted the line, "Lie to me".
After that, I thought it would make a nice haiku, but a 3-5-3 just seemed so short, so I made it 3-5-3-5-5-3. Yay for randomness at midnight. ^^ Besides, half the point in writing poetry is to see the differing reactions from those who read it. :P
I was never good with forms of poetry. Most of my stuff is sort of free-flowing stream of consciousness stuff. Though occasionally I do something with some sort of structure to it. I want to learn enough Japanese to read/write classical haikus...I found a web page about it, but I lost the link. (It was very hard to read anyway, because it was using the old Japanese conventions for hiragana...yeeek.)
You know, I don't really see it as it being really sad. Its sweet, in its little naive way. I really like it, even though I don't know where it's inspired from. I hope you'll post more poetry soon! ^>^
Well, I saw it more like a desperate cry out to the heavens, but to each their own. ^^ I suppose I tend to take the depressing meaning out of a poem, but you consitently remind me that there's always another viewpoint. Whether it is naive and sweet or sad and hopeless, there's always two sides to every coin. ^^
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I'd ask what inspired this...but the point of poetry is for it to be meaningful to the author. Any pleasure / emotional identification the reader gets is secondary to that.
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After that, I thought it would make a nice haiku, but a 3-5-3 just seemed so short, so I made it 3-5-3-5-5-3. Yay for randomness at midnight. ^^ Besides, half the point in writing poetry is to see the differing reactions from those who read it. :P
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I was never good with forms of poetry. Most of my stuff is sort of free-flowing stream of consciousness stuff. Though occasionally I do something with some sort of structure to it. I want to learn enough Japanese to read/write classical haikus...I found a web page about it, but I lost the link. (It was very hard to read anyway, because it was using the old Japanese conventions for hiragana...yeeek.)
Wee...poetry is fun
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Sometimes I think too much, but I guess its just part of my nature.
As for the coin, its just a matter of which side catches your eye. I guess I'm a bit naive like the poem. ^.^;;
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