Oohhh... I like it! I'm trying to decipher what the meaning of this is-- maybe like the whole thing of "opposites attract??" Or is it more like "when the time is right" kind of poem?? I like how open-ended yet so enclosed you left this piece... great work :)
I really like your idea of relating a kiln and having opposites attract (at least that's how I interpreted it). The ending is really good! This might be one of my favorite pieces you have written (besides the symbolic type-writer one).
Thanks guys! It does have an opposites attract sort-of theme. But I imagined the two lines of a heart shape, smoothed out and purified, ready for the kiln where they will be attached permanently and meet the other connecting line. And the third last line, "then turns white, at most innocent" means that they are desperate to find each other and are innocent and childish to love, which is in fact what they are creating. The heart. (You get it? The two lines of the heart that connect to make the actual shape? Imagine that.)
I saw the white as the purity of true love, something that we strive for and yet often settle for less than. The perfection lies in the whiteness created by flames.
Oohhh... I like it! I'm trying to decipher what the meaning of this is-- maybe like the whole thing of "opposites attract??" Or is it more like "when the time is right" kind of poem?? I like how open-ended yet so enclosed you left this piece... great work :)
ReplyDeleteI really like your idea of relating a kiln and having opposites attract (at least that's how I interpreted it). The ending is really good! This might be one of my favorite pieces you have written (besides the symbolic type-writer one).
ReplyDeleteThanks guys! It does have an opposites attract sort-of theme. But I imagined the two lines of a heart shape, smoothed out and purified, ready for the kiln where they will be attached permanently and meet the other connecting line. And the third last line, "then turns white, at most innocent" means that they are desperate to find each other and are innocent and childish to love, which is in fact what they are creating. The heart. (You get it? The two lines of the heart that connect to make the actual shape? Imagine that.)
ReplyDeleteI saw the white as the purity of true love, something that we strive for and yet often settle for less than. The perfection lies in the whiteness created by flames.
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