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For the One I Cannot Name

by Robdar in

i guess you know i love you.. but what i would really like to do right now.

is ravish you until you see god.. .

and there's no point in asking.

moonkiss

Heaven,

Whereas I appreciate your response, art is made to be interpreted by the one who views it or reads it. That is what makes art a personal experience for the viewer.

Why would I want to explain to anybody where my inspiration came from? I don't think that I owe anybody an explanation regarding what I was feeling or thinking when I wrote this poem. However, because of Elsewhere's judgmental attitude, I finally decided to give a little input as to where my head and heart was that night. I do not feel like being judged by a poster on this board-- who hasnt a clue as to who I am, as doing or being something that I am not.

As far as me being depressed and crying the night I wrote this, where do you get that idea? I said I was spiritually and physically so lonely that I wanted to cry. I did not say that I did cry or that I was depressed. I wrote the poem to change my mood. Why shouldn't I joke and be happy with the posters that were playing with me? Their response made me happy. I do have a right to be happy?

I just wish that some people would leave me be and stop second guessing me when it comes to my art. (I am not speaking of you because I feel that you care about me and I appreciate that.) I feel as if I have been dragged in front of a JC.

Thanks for your concern, Heaven. You are a sweet person.

Love,

Robyn

Edited by - moonkiss on 11 February 2003 0:15:3

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For the One I Cannot Name

by Robdar in

i guess you know i love you.. but what i would really like to do right now.

is ravish you until you see god.. .

and there's no point in asking.

moonkiss

This is Robyn. Sorry Simon, I felt that these remarks by Elsewhere should be addressed right now

Elsewhere,

There is nothing in my poem that suggests an affair. Go back and read it. The readers are the ones that interpret it that way.

The title is "For the One I Cannot Name" How do you know that I am not speaking to my dream lover that I hope to find one day and yet cannot name because I know him not?

I wrote this poem on a night that I was so spiritually and physically lonely I wanted to cry. I wrote this poem to feel better. I have hopes.

Why do you have to question them? Or make them into something nasty? Just what are you trying to imply by your post to my thread? What does my posts have to do with you or your happiness? Who are you to judge my art?

I post as I post. Do you post to get attention? Wait, sure you do.

I hardly think that you are one to be questioning my motives.

Robyn

Edited by - moonkiss on 10 February 2003 21:46:7

Edited by - moonkiss on 10 February 2003 21:57:20

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Have you met Hafiz?

by moonkiss in

jw
friends

"a wine bottle fell from a wagon.

and broke open in a field.

that night hundred beetles and all their cousins.

moonkiss

How 'bout this one:

That sounds wonderful...

Good poetry
Makes a beautiful naked woman
Materialize from
Words,

Who then says,
With a sword precariously waving
In her hands,

"If you look at my loins
I will cut off your head,

And reach down and grab your spirit
By its private parts,

And carry you off to heaven
Squealing in joy."

Hafiz says,
"That sounds wonderful, just
Wonderful.

Someone please - start writing
Some great
Lines."

'The subject tonight is love' - versions by Daniel Ladinsky

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Have you met Hafiz?

by moonkiss in

jw
friends

"a wine bottle fell from a wagon.

and broke open in a field.

that night hundred beetles and all their cousins.

moonkiss

"A wine bottle fell from a wagon
And broke open in a field.

That night hundred beetles and all their cousins
Gathered

And did some serious binge drinking.

They even found some seed husks nearby
And began to play them like drums and whirl.
This made God very happy.

Then the 'night candle' rose into the sky
And one drunk creature, laying down his instrument
Said to his friend - for no apparent
Reason,

"What should we do about that moon?"

Seems to Hafiz
Most everyone has laid aside the music

Tackling such profoundly useless
Questions. " --Hafiz

From: 'The Gift' translated by Daniel Ladinsky