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The Self-Proclaimed
Charlatan-- boaster
But not fool
For so are the meek;
The modest, and the silent monarchs
Who from appraisal hide
Be worm who announces "Cobra!"
As clever as the fox
And painter advertising blank canvas
Sharp as flattened head
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I suppose it's likely that you have tired of receiving my comments by now, but I will plow on all the same!
Again, I am reminded of the brilliance of Emily Dickinson; where the reader at first thinks the poet's style to be conservative. But at the deepest level, that is not at all so. The nature of your metaphor is such that freedom is granted to the ideas which you present behind the lines. I very much liked the concept of the 'boaster,' especially the "worm who announces 'cobra!'" Such cleverness.
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"il piu nell' uno," (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)<br /> <br /> "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality" ~Emily Dickinson<br /> <br /> "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain" <br /> ~Kahlil Gibran
I am so very glad to hear that!
I loved reading your answer, because I find that my reason for writing is much the same. I'm fairly reserved as well, and people often think me to be empy-minded, so I am attempting to prove otherwise to a different audience. I want to leave evidence of my substance, I suppose; so that it does not die when I die. When I am creating, I don't feel like my being is in vain. Part of it, I guess, is indescribable for me; sometimes I have to force myself to keep writing, but I think that it would also be difficult to stop!
Much obliged. :)