Linear Progression
All thoughts that come for your own brain are linear. This means that you may think of something and by thinking about htat you think about something else. If you describe the two thoughts they may seem completely unrelated--or un-linear--to an observer, but in your own mind there is a correlation due to a past experience or emotion that is specific to you.
My pants are grey
But not so boring
That class was over quickly
Skating with puck in hand
He got slits on his wrist
My dad knows best
Baseball in the fall
Leaves no longer green
The color of my room
Has only one window
I put my head through
Friends in the past
I never liked the Army
Guns and booze
Sounds boring
Grey
My Pants
posted by Rick Gilchrist @ 8:05 AM
2 Comments:
This is a very interesting and fertile idea you write of: "If you describe the two thoughts they may seem completely unrelated--or un-linear--to an observer, but in your own mind there is a correlation due to a past experience or emotion that is specific to you."
That sort of "life-connotation," to coin an awkward phrase, is something that readers really love to feel sparking in themselves. And I think the bridge from the writer's "own mind" to the readers' is language (both in sound and meaning/connotation) and shared cultural experience. Some accomplished writers might say that the main challenge is to make these connections POSSIBLE for your readers, without worrying too much about what they might be.
thats a really cool poem. i like it because while you are reading it makes nosence till the end whenits all comnected back to the pants.
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