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by Anne Engelen

To totally understand you

I need reading glasses

To see the small print

Between the lines

 

And still

You claim to be

An open book

For me to read

At anytime

06/16/2004

Posted on 06/16/2004
Copyright © 2025 Anne Engelen

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Vimal Rony on 06/16/04 at 09:18 PM

There is a lot of things left unsaid here.This seems like a cut and paste from somewhere in the middle of a big poem that is in ur mind that troubles u.You won't need those reading glasses once u develop that x-ray vision through experience which i believe u already have.Ty for sharing this.

Posted by Michele Schottelkorb on 06/17/04 at 07:50 AM

how poignantly true this ditty be... great piece... blessings...

Posted by Ashok Sharda on 06/17/04 at 02:10 PM

Despite the claims and the counter claims, the path is from inside to inside, leading to knowing. Simply knowing without reading.Nice little piece.

Posted by Ann Krischus on 06/17/04 at 03:06 PM

i know some people like this and you definitely captured their personality with this imagery.

Posted by Rula Shin on 06/17/04 at 05:02 PM

Oh I like this very much Anne, it does indeed speak "volumes" as almost any "open book" that is meaningful to the reader and worth analysing and understanding will have "fine print" for sure...though this is the challenge, the beauty of it is in the lack of 'clarity'...though to really KNOW someone as a whole, as Ashok says, one can learn more by studying less...know without knowing...just by sensing. This is when the fine print stand out for the other's eyes to see. Great write Anne.

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 06/17/04 at 05:56 PM

HA! That's tellin' em Anne. Well put!!

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 06/18/04 at 05:23 AM

Very large for a small poem Annie...Charlie

Posted by Mara Meade on 06/18/04 at 06:26 PM

Very well said. Very well said!

Posted by Charles J Hannan on 06/20/04 at 02:13 AM

mmmmm..Anne, this is beautiful..you have the "volume" set to ten on this one..MUAHS!!

Posted by Alison McKenzie on 06/25/04 at 04:48 AM

The things not said are sometimes the magnified undercurrent of language. That's the impression this piece gave me. Evocative read!!!

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