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Question: How many different ways can you interpret this poem!?
Ahrhythmia

Eerily quiet
darkness engulfs
stilled heart
waits!.!.!.
waits for
shallow pulse
listens!.!.!.
listens for
belated beat's
promised
return!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Minus the title (which I didn't notice until the correction)
I felt the life of a newborn baby, born still, shocked into life by a smack on the bum, and the rejoice of mother to hear his first cry for/of breath!.
Many different interpretations!. Wonderful!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You know the why behind my first response, being the obvious to me!.!. a physical heart problem!.!.!.
but I could apply it to love, as in between a man and a woman; waiting for some significant event to happen; a solider!.!. or a mother waiting for news!.
There a few different ways I could call up an image for this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

well there is the physical and there is the metaphor

awaiting love
awaiting a lovers return
awaiting an answer from a loved one

so off the cuff I would say 4 and I like the poem muchlyWww@QuestionHome@Com

About five layers of meaning here!.!.!.the arrythmia, love betrayed, relationship of magnificent love, soldiers' feelings in wartime, and the coming of night!.!.!.with dawn on the way(hoped for)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Fear, hope, lover's remorse, night, heart condition, war, fainted, the world waiting for hope to return!. I go now!. lolWww@QuestionHome@Com

Anxiety, unfulfilled promises, phobia, anticipation, love!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Where To Now

Mourning is peaceful sorrow!.!.!.
Memories of tomorrow's
Dreams know all the hopes
Have lived, no more to follow

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EvelynMine
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What harkens my hollowness
Hollowness screaming the echos
Echos of what I know
Know that I am to be
Be here to one day find
Find what I know to beWww@QuestionHome@Com

An anxiety attack!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Death, heart failure, anxiety attack!. I'm alive!!!! Www@QuestionHome@Com