"Symbolism..."

Think on it

I wonder when people find that maybe there wasn’t any …ANY… symbolism in what they were given to view and hear - I wonder if they will just make up their minds and create the hidden revelations behind the phrases you didn’t create to hide an unintended musing.

 

“Symbolism…”

 

You ever sit outside

while the snow falls?

The blanket covers all the dark

and the misty breath forms

droplets ...to hide the tears.

Sometimes I can even FEEL

and the shiver enwraps my heart

and cracks the chill ice.

 

Chris

Author's Note

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Reviews

[The Vintage Nail]

The thoughts inside our heads, crazy how things just pop in and out.
I much enjoyed your symbolism.

[A]

What's the use of symbolism when we can deaply FEEL?
If we want to see beyond perception symbols will just get in the way.
That's the way I SEE it;
That's the way I FEEL.

[Christyn Jeffries]

A cold and unfeeling person lets himself live in that cold reality, until something comes along that makes him feel, and the cool facade is cracked.

[Chris]

Lets? no. Somehow exists, survives... yes.

[Samuel Dickens]

Symbolism, allegory, etc, doesn't always escape me entirely, but I do have a hard time with it. It must be the way my mind works, but I tend to see and understand things as they appear. For this reason, I have an awful time trying to review poetry. I need it to make sense, and so much of it just doesn't. Some apparently find enjoyment in the mere sound of a word, completely divorced from it's meaning, but that doesn't work for me. Possibly, and it wouldn't be unusual, I've mistaken your meaning of this piece entirely.

[Chris]

I think you understood my meaning quite well actually. So many "pretty words" out there - I agree. People seem to get lost remembering we aren't they and that their thoughts ARE theirs and without a fair frame or clue to reference images present a puzzle that insight alone won't always solve. Ya know what I mean?

[Samuel Dickens]

I do, and you've expressed it very well.

[Chris]

I'm glad you paused. Thanks man

[Nickolaye Vincent]

very nice sir, indeed, symbolism....

[Lyn Anderson]

What lovely symbolism you craft. You are a clever writer indeed.

[Larry Dyson]

A great emotional point Chris...and a self respecting poem in its own right....if we live the symbolism as we read it then I guess its lived and gone and experienced...only if we wish to revisit it ,the emotion, then we can reread it of attempt to read it with different symbolism this time...I like twists and turns and it certainly has some...Laury

[emmajoy]

Whether something great or small's covered, it still exists, it's merely waiting to be found, looked at, understood for its good or bad, pleasure or pain. Tis too much sadness in the finish, too much of the discovery that would have been better left alone. That''s how i read your words, right or wrong.

[Kenneth The Poet]

I just see a snowstorm and that can mean many things to one person alone. Great piece overall.

[Baby Ricochet]

I've gotten reviews from people that were so off from what the poem was about I thought they were posting about something else entirely and my work is far from mysterious and vague. People stick in what they want no matter how off base it is.