This wrote itself.
thinking, you ask, "How much interaction should there be between the reader and writer?"
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If this question is rhetorical
it nevertheless tantalizes.
Relationship, even historical
greeting-card verse, socializes.
That is not what you intended.
There is distance there between
fiction with disbelief suspended,
and the truths we may have seen.
Readers bring own experience
with them as they read, to fit
surprised, outgrown convenience...
or such exquisite depth implicit
that the Reader's beauties reclaim
and world is never again the same.
Thank you for inspiring this sonnet.
Terry
Author notes
This is a draft that arrived in Forums.
Do you find inspiration in odd places?
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To think of all these people we will never meet, each carrying their own bundle of experience, big enough to write countless books. I have thought of that myself sometimes and I'm glad you made me think of it again.
I do find inspiration in very odd places.
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Imagination-as-experience is as varied as the separate selves in the crowd that is the self. My imaginary friends have different opinions about things I write in my poems and chaotic arguments often break out--as in, "Who am I kidding?" (Or "whom" if you can believe one of my imaginary friends, who was an English Lit major and definitely a wierdo) Thank you for this tantilizing poem, you provocative creature.
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About Weirdos
Yes, rather weird too, English majors are.
Once people know they tend to scatter far.
Multiple personalities with idiosyncrasies
Not, but rather resembling random species
sounds like great fun! You'd never be lonely!
And that's a benefit, sweet, far from an only
one to mention--imagination, and sensational
from multiple points of view, sensing it all.
With teleportation through wild Space and Time,
constant inspiration, diverse directions. I'm
aware it may resemble diverse mental aberration,
but believe me, it sure beats formal abnegation!
Write a novel! This sonnet's imminent end
tells me it's a secret that you comprehend!
Thank you for inspiring!
Terry
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The written word has no meaning without a reader, it is just ink on a page (or pixels on a screen) until an eye deciphers it. The process of creation is only half of art, the other half is appreciation. The catchphrase is "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". What if the eye is closed?
My poems have benefited from
"such exquisite depth implicit
that the Reader's beauties reclaim
and world is never again the same."
This is right on, and well said too.
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Profound statement
"The written word has no meaning without a reader," you said.
Of COURSE! Why had I never thought of that!
Thank you to you and Matt, very much, for not letting mine languish unnoticed and unheard!
Perhaps Readers had been equally unaware of their own beauties before reading this? Such can be the power of the written word!
Thank you!
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a suppose a second observer is like a second eye
the distance between the two measures depth
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Thank you Matt
Interesting thought,
that different points of view
almost never see
same things, and yet you do.
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