for example

[blp]

thoughts as similar
as water
turpentine
and gin
are so often decanted into
identical glasses

I love you,
for example
the last time someone said this to me
I didn’t even think to ask
––what do you mean?––

how sad she seemed
(for her? for me?)
I hugged her
climbed dazedly from the car
and, on the pavement,
warped by the glass
walked off, distorted,
into
another life

[white camellia]

Again, like some mystical spell, it's naively beautiful to me. Are we readers supposed to decipher this code? Particularly, I like the way how these fragments of thoughts are arranged on this page.

[blp]

Thanks. I think the code's decipherable yes. I didn't even think it was hard to understand at all.

[Pendragon]

Like it! Dunno about code, but water, turpentine, and gin are so dissimilar that the thoughts would be a drunken muddle if poured into one glass, that's for sure! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif

[blp]

Well, they may be dissimilar, but the look the same. Glad you like it, Pen.

[ktd222]

How universally known this sentence “I love you” is, and yet how infinite the possibilities of meanings there are for it. I think you’re talking about perception of the statement “I love you,” and yet without clarifying what a person, any person, meant when saying this, can lead to false notions. Just as “water, turpentine, and gin” may look similar, their properties are totally different. I really like this poem, blp!

[blp]

Yes, that's exactly it, ktd. Glad you like it!

[motherhubbard]

I thought that was wonderful. I'm going to go read it again!

[blp]

Thanks, motherhubbard!

[motherhubbard]

I really did like it. I'm going to watch for your next poem!

[blp]

I'll try not to let you down!

[motherhubbard]

I keep coming back to this. I love the poem, but I don't know the code. please explain

[blp]

Sorry, I'm being dumb. Totally forgot it says 'code' at the top. That's just there for the formatting. These sites don't recognise large spaces in a text if you just type it in normally, so you have to put code tags around it, which look a bit like this: [code ] [/code ] (but without the extra spaces obviously, otherwise they'd disappear when I posted).

Very flattered and pleased this continues to interest you, motherhubbard.

[white camellia]

Totally forgot it says 'code' at the top. That's just there for the formatting. These sites don't recognise large spaces in a text if you just type it in normally, so you have to put code tags around it, which look a bit like this: [code ] [/code ] (but without the extra spaces obviously, otherwise they'd disappear when I posted).

Again, like some mystical spell, it's naively beautiful to me. Are we readers supposed to decipher this code? Particularly, I like the way how these fragments of thoughts are arranged on this page.
:D
So it's possible that you forgot the 'code' when I made that comment? Quite interestingly, what was initially technical became the poetical. The 'code' seems to match the context of the poem well.

[blp]

Yup. I missed what you meant completely. But yes, there's something very nice about this 'code' thing. On this site, it also makes the text more attractive.

[motherhubbard]

I'm so glad it wasn't just me not getting what was completely obvious to the rest of the world!

[blp]

No. More like it was me. :D

[NikolaiI]

Yowza - this is very wonderful, blp! :)