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RE: "Achilles or Hector?" ... Plus a 2,000 SP Delegation to the Power House Creatives
You really blow my mind! Such a way with words, your poetry, your story telling. Adding humor in the mix, lethal.
How does one go by talking and writing the way you both do?
Knowing that I am not that good as I would like to be in complementing and saying the best of ways how grateful I am for this... All I can say with all honesty and heart, thank you so very much! <3 <3 <3
@foxyspirit,
Thanks for your kind words.
Everyone gets a gift: Mine was words.
Musically, I can't sing ... or even whistle. I can't draw or paint. My "gifts" are entirely concentrated in writing.
But make no mistake, others' gifts ... awe me. I would kill to be able to do what I see others doing so effortlessly. Like singing a song in tune or playing a piano (I really love pianos). But I'm not resentful. I'm just thankful that I got something. :-)
Quill
I question my gifts lol. But ultimately my gift is being able to help others, and seeing the people. Truly seeing. For the rest it's all fun.
@foxyspirit,
Foxy, THAT ... is undoubtedly the greatest gift of all.
Walt Whitman once said that, "Great Poets require Great Audiences, a sentiment with which I wholly agree. Absent an audience, poets are just lunatics talking to a mirror, self-congratulating themselves on their ability to artistically articulate words that no one will ever hear.
As I've argued, endlessly, Without "Great Curation" ... "Great Creation" Means Nothing.
It's a subject about which @d-pend and I have often conversed: Why do we create Art? If it's just for ourselves, does it even matter? Why invest so much time and effort to write a poem about a thing of which we are already convinced?
Poetry is about persuasion without coercion.
Undoubtedly, you understood that I was making a case for choosing the ethos of Hector ... but it was your choice. Despite my obvious preference, you were left free to, alternatively, choose the ethos of Achilles ... as did the Greeks.
Here's a thing that most people don't understand:
"My poem" ... is actually half yours.
It is YOUR mind, that of the reader, who is affixing meaning to the words that I write. It is YOU who is making them pregnant with possibility. Not me. While I write the words, it is YOU who manufactures their meaning.
If you don't believe me, go listen to a famous poem written in a language you do not speak. It is MEANINGLESS gibberish. The poet and the poem remained the same ... it was only YOU, the audience, that changed. YOU own the meaning ... and without YOU, there is no ME.
At the top of this comment section, @jaynie mentioned:
But that says as much about her as it does about me, doesn't it? It tells you something about her ethos that she would react they way that she did. Of course, I suppose there's also something to be said about me in that I would go to such lengths to make a girl cry. I admit ... I do it on purpose. :-)
Quill
I absolutely understand what you are saying. With poems, songs and certain books even.
It can be argued between people when deciding what the author feels or means. And with the knowledge of knowing that it can be personal, in times relating to our own personal experience, I just listen to what they have to say as we learn more about the other person on a different level. It's pretty cool actually.
You have such humor! I love it! :D