The Meaning of Feeling
written by: Jim Murdoch
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel—but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling – E.E. Cummings: A Miscellany Revised
The poet writes what feels right
at the time and the reader tries
to understand him, a foolhardy
venture at best. To wit:
A girl loves a boy and said boy
loves her back (or he doesn’t)
but either way he never asks,
“What do you mean by ‘love’?”
simply assuming she loves him
the way he expects to be loved
even if he doesn’t feel the same
for her or ever could.
Words, sadly, do no emotion
any favours although to be fair
they’re equally inadept at
imparting human thought
and yet somehow, we cope,
a precious verb, a rare thing
one can do without thinking,
knowing, believing or feeling
anything.
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