Brigit's Flame - January 2009 - Week 2
The strangest thing happened to me, this week. I wrote a poem! Not that I never did, but... I'm quite fond of it. Don't let that prevent you from sharing your thoughts. Will I finally make it to week 3? Thanks for reading. ;)
This week's topic is DEMONS.
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This week's topic is DEMONS.
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I'm worrying because I think you misinterpreted what I was trying to say in the fourth stanza. Let me clarify my thoughts.
The first two stanzas deal with children's fear of the dark, which disappears as they grow old and realize demons are merely humans.
The third stanza explain that those demonic humans are judged by their peers other humans - anyone - then sentenced to spears (a metaphor for the capital punishment, the lethal injection).
The fourth stanza is an open question to humans who want to punish other humans for their atrocities by taking away their lives, basically acting as they did. Which may be, and that's what I'm getting at in the fifth stanza, what they want. Maybe those inhuman humans' sole desire is to go to hell and we help them to reach that goal with what we think is a punishment, what they can interpret as a reward for their actions.
I'm wondering why you understood the fourth stanza as spoken by the demons' voice... I guess missed my point.
Anyway, it was nice to write and surprisingly easier than I thought, beginner's luck maybe! I tried to listen to the poem spoken by Microsoft voices! I sensed some of it was a bit off, but I liked the lines that way and I was running out of time. But I will take your advice for future ventures into the dark side. ;) I guessed I was a bit obsessed with the rhyming here. I'm still quite happy about my first real poem!
Thanks for your time!
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