Words
reflections on the limitations of intellect93 total reviews
Comment from allinmyhead
Excellent example of tetractys form. I know people (all too well) who are living examples of your statement: people who choose words to impress rather than to express.
Good poem.
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2009
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Excellent example of tetractys form. I know people (all too well) who are living examples of your statement: people who choose words to impress rather than to express.
Good poem.
Comment Written 01-Aug-2009
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2009
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Thank you - you got this exactly - lots and lots of readers did not. :-) Brooke
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Give them a few years with classic intellectual snobs and they will more than get it :)
Comment from Deejharrington
Well, first off you hit on my favorite color on the neat picture!
How true! We (being the writers) get so wrapped up in our little dictionary in our heads and forget to express or convey to someone, what we are feeling. (strange, dont usually have this delimnia LOL) We worry about word count and meters, will it rhyme? does it fit the mold? (this is so not me)we forget words main job is to express!
deb
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2009
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Well, first off you hit on my favorite color on the neat picture!
How true! We (being the writers) get so wrapped up in our little dictionary in our heads and forget to express or convey to someone, what we are feeling. (strange, dont usually have this delimnia LOL) We worry about word count and meters, will it rhyme? does it fit the mold? (this is so not me)we forget words main job is to express!
deb
Comment Written 01-Aug-2009
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2009
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You "got" this one perfectly too when several people were mystified and wrote back about how words are used to express love, etc - I kept explaining myself that I meant what you're saying. :-) You're just being one perceptive/insightful lady!!! Thank you for that :-) Brooke
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Your're welcome...just read'en as you wrot'em them!
deb
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I know you just read em as I wrote em, but when so many people read em another way, I was super pleased to see enough people "got it" to let me know I'm just not hopelessly obscure :-)
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You? never Though some of our readers are hopelessly obstuce. Tell Tom I said it, and I'll lie like an old rug!
deb
Comment from Gaye Hemsley
Hi Brooke I loved getting my tongue around this one, I'll say it again you had a way with words and your right, sometimes writers are so intent on flash words that the meaning is lost. Cheers Gaye
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2009
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Hi Brooke I loved getting my tongue around this one, I'll say it again you had a way with words and your right, sometimes writers are so intent on flash words that the meaning is lost. Cheers Gaye
Comment Written 01-Aug-2009
reply by the author on 01-Aug-2009
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Gaye, thank you! Yes, words can be meaningful or filled with emotion, or they can just be words used to impress :-) You "get it" precisely! Brooke
Comment from elainec4
adewpearl,
Enjoyed this one immensely. Small form--big concept! Your "Author Notes" expanded my knowledge of the form. Thanks. elaine
reply by the author on 30-Jul-2009
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adewpearl,
Enjoyed this one immensely. Small form--big concept! Your "Author Notes" expanded my knowledge of the form. Thanks. elaine
Comment Written 29-Jul-2009
reply by the author on 30-Jul-2009
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Thanks, Elaine :-) Your encouraging review is a great way to start the day :-) Brooke
Comment from Joan E.
I know you and I have met people who are glib but who do not garner our respect. I think you described the situation well in your succinct poem and even included a bit of alliteration and rhyme, with another mesmerizing picture.
My computer is cured! (It was just the cable and still under warranty.) The last message I sent was from the AppleStore, using one of theirs connected to my FS account, which was a first for me. Hope they both come through seamlessly.
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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I know you and I have met people who are glib but who do not garner our respect. I think you described the situation well in your succinct poem and even included a bit of alliteration and rhyme, with another mesmerizing picture.
My computer is cured! (It was just the cable and still under warranty.) The last message I sent was from the AppleStore, using one of theirs connected to my FS account, which was a first for me. Hope they both come through seamlessly.
Comment Written 29-Jul-2009
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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Glib - an excellent choice of words, and some people just did not get that this is what I was saying at all - I can always count on you to be among the few who "get" it!!! Thanks, Joan. I'm glad your computer ills are cured :-) Brooke
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I am so pleased that we are usually on the same wavelength.
Thanks for commiserating about my computer woes. Half the time I feel it's woman against the machine! At least my diagnosis was right and the replacement part was included under the extended care policy. Now, all I have to do is catch up on F.S and with my emails. Then, maybe I can get back to writing poetry. I did squeeze in a limerick on Wirtricity yesterday (the advent of cordess electricity), but I don't count the 9-9-6-6-9 form as stretching my poetic muscle. See you tomorrow. -Joan
Comment from rmdelta
Brooke,
you know, I've about used up my dictionary trying to change what I say in a review of your work. This was terrific and very descriptive. Well done, my dear friend.
Reggie
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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Brooke,
you know, I've about used up my dictionary trying to change what I say in a review of your work. This was terrific and very descriptive. Well done, my dear friend.
Reggie
Comment Written 29-Jul-2009
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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Thanks, Reggie - you're the best. Just tell me I'm brilliant every time and I will not complain at all. ROTFLMAO :-) Brooke
Comment from sgalletti
This was a great entry Brooke. From what I am reviewing, there were some very strong entries. You are absolutely correct in your assessment about words. I find that I often use words that are misinterpreted. The words are meant to be funny or witty and taken by the "hearer" as cruel and serious - not what I intended at all. Or, I will say words that are meant to be loving that are received as being patronist. In fact, one of the very few things I don't like about this site is that readers can only read and interpret the words as THEY read them, not necessarily as the writer is wanting to portray them. It is difficult when you don't know the writer well and can't look at them when communicating. Anyway, this long diatribe is just to let you know that your message in this tectractys was very powerful! Lots of meanings in just a few words. For me, the test of a true poet! Sue
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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This was a great entry Brooke. From what I am reviewing, there were some very strong entries. You are absolutely correct in your assessment about words. I find that I often use words that are misinterpreted. The words are meant to be funny or witty and taken by the "hearer" as cruel and serious - not what I intended at all. Or, I will say words that are meant to be loving that are received as being patronist. In fact, one of the very few things I don't like about this site is that readers can only read and interpret the words as THEY read them, not necessarily as the writer is wanting to portray them. It is difficult when you don't know the writer well and can't look at them when communicating. Anyway, this long diatribe is just to let you know that your message in this tectractys was very powerful! Lots of meanings in just a few words. For me, the test of a true poet! Sue
Comment Written 29-Jul-2009
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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thank you, Sue - I agree that it is often difficult to tell what a writer intends minus those other cues of inflection, facial expression, body language - and it can lead to missed communications quite easily. Brooke :-)
Comment from Phil Kitom
This is such an interesting way to write a
poem and it shows great creativity to form
the syllabols in such a way as to express
the work in just twenty and 5 lines.
Well done Brooke
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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This is such an interesting way to write a
poem and it shows great creativity to form
the syllabols in such a way as to express
the work in just twenty and 5 lines.
Well done Brooke
Comment Written 29-Jul-2009
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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Thank you, my friend. These short forms do force one to think long and hard about how to express a thought! Brooke :-)
Comment from dihardest
Wouldn't this be precisely the perfect form to express the inadequacy of words? Twenty or two hundred and fifty thousand - they are all inadequate to express what we feel as we feel it. The art is to come as close as we can with as few as we can. You do art especially well.
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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Wouldn't this be precisely the perfect form to express the inadequacy of words? Twenty or two hundred and fifty thousand - they are all inadequate to express what we feel as we feel it. The art is to come as close as we can with as few as we can. You do art especially well.
Comment Written 29-Jul-2009
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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Thank you for a perceptive review - I do think people can use words effectively to express feelings, but often people don't spend the time to find that way to infuse the words with feeling and resort instead to intellectualizing and cleverness :-) Brooke
Comment from Nanny 6
There's a whole lot of truth in your 'words', Brooke. I enjoyed your research and author's notes as well. Good entry, I wish you the best of luck! Judy
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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There's a whole lot of truth in your 'words', Brooke. I enjoyed your research and author's notes as well. Good entry, I wish you the best of luck! Judy
Comment Written 29-Jul-2009
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2009
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Thanks so much, Judy. I appreciate your thoughtfulness :-) Brooke
