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does anyone c the meaning in this poem?

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  • 22-06-2005 8:53pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭


    this poem is slighty obscure in what its trying to say
    I wonder if anyone can get meaning out of it


    Tick Tock


    The calculated seconds simmer
    As number 4 is laborious
    Thirsty for that first glimmer
    “File the first: A notorious”
    Read the third three times
    On how A, then B, then C
    Lead me away from those seven crimes
    And duplicity

    Spied that solitary two
    Wrapped as a figure 8
    Their souls met beneath a tree
    On lips s wet their lonesome fate

    And number four is almost through
    As Z equals 26
    He cries “this ninth file is only new”
    “I smell another fatal fix”
    The small black book
    The thin red lines
    The purple patch went unrecorded
    The ledgers bent, the lights too low
    The purple patch went unrecorded
    The light the noise the ebb and flow
    The balance almost nigh,
    Love was U the twenty first
    You let me be your number 2
    But I like this ninth file still thirst
    For order through and through


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  • Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭el_tiddlero


    is it that you had a german and loved the preciseness of it all but found someone else after who suits you better but you still thirst for that superior efficiency??????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    It's about Death*


    *meaning subject to terms and conditions


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    Are you trying to write a poem, or a "clever" riddle?

    Art is personal. If it means something to you, that's all that matters.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    is it that you had a german and loved the preciseness of it all but found someone else after who suits you better but you still thirst for that superior efficiency??????

    eh a german?
    ok the word preciseness is everything to the key of the poem


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    Raphael wrote:
    It's about Death*


    *meaning subject to terms and conditions

    not about death
    its about how severe monotony leads to (in the poem anyway) a madness and a kinda yearning for things you let escape.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    koneko wrote:
    Are you trying to write a poem, or a "clever" riddle?

    Art is personal. If it means something to you, that's all that matters.

    yeah i was trying to write a poem but i suppose its a little bit from column a and a little from column b
    its meant to riddling because of the subject matter the character in the poem is a tense precise accountant tpye who has gone mad


  • Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭the raven


    it's not a riddle. if you think it is then it's a sh!t riddle.
    it's almost a poem. if not for the few eye catching image/phrases i wouldn't have commented. and don't be the arrogant toddler asking if we "understand" you and your style.

    i dunno, nevermind me. or then again, do.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    real sorry if i sounded arrogant
    then again i expected that kinda reaction or rather i was asking for it
    the reason i asked if anyone could c meaning in the poem was because after it was finished i felt it was too obscure so i just wanted to c what people got from it with a quick reading
    wasnt playing the all seeing all knowing king of poetry or anything like that
    i'm not like that.


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