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Question: Can anyone interpret this poem!?
This was on my ex boyfriends myspace:


Her eyes were canyons and mountains of golden sand illuminated from an indeterminable source, shadows cast to create a striated landscape of infinite shades!. I stood in those dunes knowing exactly where I was lost!. It was warm and the sand lacked no comfort!. I could live forever in her eyes and never want!.

His mouth let slip words of courage and safety!. His lips part and out pours the embrace of innocent love!. His language is a silk blanket flowing around me, warming my body with elegant bliss!. The cold escapes in reverberating waves of words spun from his heart!. I could live forever in his mind and never want!.

In my comfort my head releases it's defences!. Relaxed and content slowly the ropes untangle as if alive and exhausted!. The straps holding my soul down are loosened and my fears are released!. My chest parts in a straight line down my ribs and out flows incomparable cold and irrepressible heat!. The sand about me begins to boild and the blanket no longer protects me from the cold!. I reach inside my chest and struggle to tighten the straps!. They are slippery with ichor and only seem to loosen more!. The ropes in my head are completely untangled!. It is inevitable now!. Her elegance and his beauty are detroyed!.

I know it's really boring, that's why I'm asking this because I got really confused reading it!. Can anyone summarize it or give me a better understanding of what he's saying!?

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
It's actually one of the better poems I've read in a while!.

The author breaks 1st person / 3rd person form - which is why you're probably confused (sometimes he refers to himself as "I" and others as if he's looking introspectively "his") I get the impression the author is feeling disconnected from his own being (like a jeckyll and hyde feeling)!. There's a conflict between the object of affection (noted only with visual cues) and his own self awareness (noted only with oral and psychological cues)!. When the two collide (the sand boiling is the object of affection becoming a source of derision) the torment of unrequited love is unleashed!.

It's possible to interpet the "his" as another man - but I see a duality in play, even if unintended by the author!.

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it sounds like to me someone got betrayed, you know!? they truly loved and then their lover totally left them!. I'm sorry if that's not right !.!. just seems like it to me!. do you know who wrote it!? it's a good poemWww@QuestionHome@Com

lets see!.!.!.i took a poetry class in seventh grade last year and i exceled in it so i'll take a shot at this poem for u!.!.!.

- first of all he see's warmth in her eye's!.!.!.he feels warm and loved when he looks in them

- he's progressing his love for her!.!.!.telling her how he feels!.!.!.and he's saying this from the heart!.!.!.its all from him

- hes trying to control his love for her but he cant find a way to do it!.!.!.

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