| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Alex Smyth on 05/09/03 at 01:53 AM To be able to (1)identify and (2)confront are great blessings. It helps to clear the path to work on the "why", doesn't it? Quite a question. Thank, Ashok |
| Posted by Agnes Eva on 05/09/03 at 01:55 AM touchee, then. we are always running into our old selves, hehe, though we might try to shake them. |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 05/10/03 at 01:56 AM Quite a surprising twist at the end. Lots of room for interpretation; a stimulus to the imagination. There is complexity to what appears superficially a rather straightforward story. (I would immediately name Satan to be the "chaser". The "I" to be Everyman.) |
| Posted by Anne Engelen on 05/10/03 at 04:50 PM Wow...this really doesn't need another comment! Great one! |
| Posted by JD Clay on 05/11/03 at 03:15 PM Challenging poetry, Ashok. I love a poem that makes me think and this one is exceptionally exhausting. Perhaps the key to this dilemma could be revealed in the second line.
Peace... |
| Posted by Jeanne Marie Hoffman on 05/12/03 at 06:26 AM I like this -- I keep rereading it because it is like a puzzle. I wonder, who are the two characters? Or more specifically, the one the other is living. I came to the same conclusion as Quentin (satan & man) Very good -- you made me think a lot at 2:30 in t he morning! |
| Posted by Rhyana Fisher on 05/12/03 at 04:02 PM lol. no matter how much one might try to run, they're always back there waiting for one to look over his/her shoulder.
this made me grin, altho i never seem to catch the same self twice in a row. |
| Posted by David R Spellman on 05/12/03 at 05:25 PM Truly a deep and thought provoking confrontational piece you present us with here. Got me thinking! Well done. |
| Posted by Mara Meade on 05/12/03 at 08:44 PM Face to face with the self you don't want to confront... this one was a punch in the gut! You said it so well... |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 05/13/03 at 03:21 AM Like looking hauntingly into a mirror...crazy but so rational. :o) |
| Posted by Betania Tesch on 05/13/03 at 02:35 PM this poem or some variation on this was one of the very first things of yours that I ever read...and one of the first things ever to challenge my thoughts processes in that delightful way you have. You truly are a magnificently complicated man. |
| Posted by Michele Schottelkorb on 02/28/04 at 08:54 PM look at life from two sides... very profound, ashok... blessings... |
