gordon

Poets love ambiguity
It reveals so little yet lets so much be seen
Of all the postures and poses we adopt
Ambiguity tops the lot

Hapless aberrations of the tongue
Prime ingredients for our song
Composition with the opposite flow
Suggestive nuance just below

In the quest the pursuit
With regard to masters of repute
Become an integral part
The next time you start

The image we define
Ambiguity along lesser lines.

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Penelope

Great last line ices this wonderful poem Gordon. Striving for the ambiguous while wanting to nail the essence of words. Yup. You are write.

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Scratches

Spot on poem. I keep having mental crises about why poets even seek to bury their thoughts so deeply in symbolism and abstraction. I guess it's just the "best words in the best order" guideline of poetry. I love uprooting meaning, but I just wonder how it all came about.

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B1ot

Intentional pun or mis-spelling? I suspect the first =P

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Rkay

This will be among my favourites.
I will probably disagree though in that there may be instances that
the poet's 'aberrations of the tongue' may be the opposite of hapless!
I thoroughly enjoyed your thoughts and how you presented them.
Thanks for sharing this one.
Ricky

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