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Position:Home>Poetry> Would you comment on a metaphorical poem?Question: Would you comment on a metaphorical poem!? The Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Desert floor in full season's bloom cacti's waxen flowers delight the eye blooms of white, yellow, orange and red springing forth from what barren seems hot wind carries across dry plain lonely, loose tumbling tumbleweeds they leave no mark they don't detract from painted beauty of desert floor inconsequential ugly weeds keep tumbling to own purposeless fate!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I get a visualization of motion without sound!. A sense of desolation, stillness, emptiness, vacuity!. Yet reflective, contemplative, appreciative, and not completely detached!. also symbolic of the true potential we possess, the opportunities we are often presented with, and how we can ultimately wind up!. But then, after all, isn't it all so very!.!.!. tragically beautiful!?Www@QuestionHome@Com I have watched tumble weeds from west texas to arizona, and they are an ugly weed that has a beauty of there own as the tumble across the land, scattering their seed to proliferate their species!. I also love the cacti, the saguaro with it's upraised arms, the barrel with it's nail-like spikes, the century with it's awesome flower perched atop a 50 foot mast!. All these things have beauty as does you poem which talks of them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Its a metaphorical poem all right!. Yet it brings a wide spectrum of ideas about one act of reality!. Unless those ideas approached intellectually, we may get into pretexts and preconception!. Terror just like politics, has no religion and doesn't belong to the time and place factors!. No religion, by default definition, calls for or agrees with terrorism!. Only politics and individual ignorance may do!. Www@QuestionHome@Com tears and make up!? I don't understand these choices: what barren seems lonely, loose tumbling tumbleweeds inconsequential ugly weeds But I think it's just me, judging from the other responses!. I like the constriction in the middle!. Other than that I can see where the world without sound response is coming from!. I was thinking maybe the world without sound idea could even be incorporated more directly into the poem!. Thanks for the read!.Www@QuestionHome@Com metaphorical indeed!. I too, know this landscape!. Even amongst the desolation, there is the potential for beauty!. Nicely done!. :)Www@QuestionHome@Com Ma,I don't have all the fancy,descriptive words to comment on your poem!.But I know what I like,and I like this!.Just as in Mag's poems and stories,I was transported to that place!.Www@QuestionHome@Com springing forth from what barren seems <fave line inconsequential ugly weeds<that line makes me sad and it makes me want to pick up the weeds and turn them into beautiful bird 's nest hats, so you'll stop calling them ugly!. *cries for misunderstood weed* Www@QuestionHome@Com In reading some of your previous posts, and having been raised in a metaphorical, analogous environment, I certainly "get it" For this one I say "well done!." Steven WolfWww@QuestionHome@Com Even here in the snow covered place I live in, Tumbleweeds and deserts exist in collusion with the mountains!. I sometimes think I am but the tumbleweed, blowing from place to place Www@QuestionHome@Com I once lived right outside palm Springs!. Your verse brings to mind those wonderful rolling tumbling "weeds"!. I loved them and the land they tumbled on!. So barren, so beautiful!. Love your poem too!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Very vivid, with metaphorical clarity!. Kudos!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I know this landscape!. Www@QuestionHome@Com I can see petrified wood!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Reminds me of Mojave!Www@QuestionHome@Com |