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Friday, March 16, 2012

Two Clocks

Two clocks tick together;
Never really knowing whether
They should ask about the people
Who ring the time from churches’ steeple.
They yell, they ding,
But still, the thing
That makes them ask
is why our face is but a mask.

5 comments:

  1. Hmm...good moral here, chappy, if I'm understanding it right. Of course, like as not there's one, anyway! ;D You are talking about the people's faces being masks, or are you meaning the clocks' faces? :P My, am I rotten at interpreting poetry! XD LOL

    --Dalu--

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  2. Dalu,
    LOL, no--you're right! I was talking about the people's faces.
    LOL, you're not rotten at interpreting poetry I'm just rotten at writing it! XD

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  3. Ben,
    Wrong, wrong, wrong! If I want to be anything at literature or journalism (which I want to be), I've got to learn how to interpret poetry! You aren't rotten: It took my English teacher to explain to me what Walter de la Mare's "The Listeners" was about. And he was a great poet! :D

    --Dalu--

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  4. Dalu,
    LOL, well there must be a spot where it's both hard to interpret the best poems and the worst, the best because they're just so good, and the worst because the author didn't put a lot into making them clear or didn't know how. :D
    (I don't even know who Walter de la Mare IS! LOL)


    -- Coyle

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  5. Ben,
    Oh, I give up! LOL You're confusing me, chappio! :P LOL You don't? Well, ye should look him up. He wrote generally for children, but he also had some theological works. I think I've heard more about him than I've read, to be honest. "The Listeners" was good! :P LOL

    --Dalu--

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