Limitless Time
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I sometimes find myself reading other peoples poetry and not quite understanding what’s being said. Not quite getting the underlying message. I walk away puzzled, unsure if I properly understood what the author was trying to get across. Regardless, I always walk away thinking, pondering and thankful for the expression of thought and emotion.
I really enjoyed writing this poem, so I’m going to share it with you. I have been playing with the ideas of time, transition, elevation, thought, dimension and progression.
Dreamless Time
Do you ever dream of a dreamless time
A space in between death and grace
And infinite time trimmed with lace
And graceful trimmings
With silver linings
Limitless timing
Space less grace
Eternity misplaced
Centuries of disgrace
Infinite space
No boundaries.
Limitless grace
To become
Under the sun
One
Singular
Not plural
Canvassed mural
With silver linings
Defining
Your dreams of a dreamless time
Where your spirit can shine
In a limitless time
Keep Writing,
Jennifer
Writings of a Mrs 
Maya Angelou says that she enjoys hearing other people’s interpretations of her poetry. They are rarely the same as what she had intended, but they help her understand he poetry more deeply. I don’t always know exactly what a poem says; it is sometimes more of a conglomeration of evocative images than coherent thought. I like how you played with letter combinations and syllabic repetition in this poem. Really nice!
Thank you so much. I love Maya Angelou.
I appreciate your thoughts and insights Marya. I agree with you.
Jennifer
Sometimes, I also don’t understand the underlying meaning. But I have the tendency to clarify by asking if I’m not sure 🙂 Your poetry is also beautiful 🙂
That’s one of the reasons I love poetry, it does not always have to make sense. I think it’s pretty common for people to write poetry that answers something within themselves or directed to one person when only that person would understand it because they have the key.
🙂
Thank you Yoshiko. I ask or I enjoy the wonderment of wondering 🙂
Primal Night,
Very well said.
Welcome. 🙂
We may write with one thought but if others read it and get different interpretations or understanding that may uplift them then you’ve done a great job. Luv the poetry!
Hi Freda.
Thank you. I agree. I said as much in my 3 Things Poetry is not post.
Jennifer
From what I believe, I think it’s best that the reader interpret it however they feel is relevant to them.
What I pick from your poem, can be interpreted in so many ways to suit the reader’s personal needs.
That’s the beauty of poems, they are emotional images created to impact a similar emotion within the reader. Who cares if as the reader I interpret it incorrectly from what the writer intended? It left an impression and some motivation with thought.
Thank you for inspiring me today. I’ve been neglecting my short stories and this was the positive push I needed. Please keep writing!
xoxo
Stacia
Stacia,
I totally agree with you. Did you read my Three things that Poetry is Not post. I speak about how I feel in regards to words and poetry more there.
I’m happy to inspire you.
Cheers,
Jennifer
I also like how you played with ideas and repeating syllables. It would be nice if we had unlimited time, but unfortunately we don’t. Keep up the good work, and thanks for liking my blog.
HI Jenny.
My pleasure.
Well time is relative to the places yet unseen.
Cheers,
Jennifer
Beautiful. I am inspired…
“Just in Time”
Time is placed
in a poem,
then faced with ages
of meaning to conceive,
and hold. Birth.
Give away
to you, and to me, and generations,
of limited voice, hearing,
though eternal in beauty
and temporal, graced,
but living without ears.
Their future passing
on timelines
that bleed into existence, become light–
light back to time, time to life,
to light, then to lifetimes of writing,
and rhymes
excited to end,
in limited baby portions,
and just in time.
Jim ♫
you inspire me. keep it up.
So pleased to inspire you Jim. 😀 Beautiful as always.
And yours. And we both keep on pushing, expanding. The way it should be. 😉
Amazing, Jen. I bloody love it! xxx
Righto, cheerio then! 😉
Glad you enjoyed it. 😀
Well it appears that even though you didn’t understand or think you may have interpreted a writing incorrectly, it doesn’t matter when it’s writings of emotion, thought, dream… Similar to song. It can be personalized, recreated, give birth to, inspire and create, so the writing has benefited you with inspiration! great! Your words are hauntingly beautiful prose and the picture stunning. Thanks for sharing, look forward to traveling the data stream of discovery, awareness and oblivion with you. Cheers,
Hi Black Swan,
Welcome to my blog.
I completely agree with your views on poetry.
Check out my Three things Poetry is Not Post…it’s a fun read about what poetry is or is not.
Cheers,
Jennifer
Sometimes I have to read a poem a few times to get the meaning….as you know I only started to try poetry a week ago ….I always have a muse but I dont know if many get my words and I dont get many likes so guess I should keep the day job lol 😉 saying that I enjoy the creativity…so does it matter if people dont understand? I dont know.
I’m the same way, I’ve only been at poetry for a little over a month. Likes don’t determine the quality of your writing. Some hidden gems are hard to find is all 🙂
I love poetry, even when I don’t quite get what the message was suppose to be. I almost prefer it 🙂
Cheers,
Jennifer
How very true….at times when I read the works of others, it makes me feel as I would listening to a beautiful piece of music in a foreign language- delighted, touched, puzzled and wanting to get to know what lies in the depths of the lyrics.
Beautifully stated. 🙂 Thank you for sharing.
Haha, I feel like what you said about other people’s poems about my own writing sometimes. I finish something and re-read it and go ‘whhhat am I talking about…”
Great poem though, very lyrical 🙂
Hi Trev.
Thank you. I appreciate your kind words.
I definitely stop at times and do the same thing, especially if I am writing for a while.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and comment. Please continue to.
Jennifer
This is a great poem!
Thank you very much. 🙂
Great poem!!!!! . My Prof. Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler has a paper on the two realms of time the linear time and the infinite time and how there needs to be a dialogue between the two..
I love the exclamation marks! 🙂 I fancy them myself. I completely agree with her! I would love to read the paper 🙂
Here is a clip of her reading her paper-
Let me know what of it.
I really love your poem its very philosophical.
Regards,
Eli
Thank you I will take a look. I just looked her up and took a peek at her website. 🙂 Very interesting material. Some of her books look fascinating!
Even if you don’t understand it, what’s important is what you feel. IMO, anyway… Great, great piece you’ve written here, Jennifer! Now, I’m going to go back and attempt to see. Well done.
You provide such vivid imagery with fine descriptions beyond any worldly comprehension, that it has left me staggering. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your poetry and I especially loved how everything came together in the end, making an extravagant piece. You have truly inspired me! Thank you!
i think it is cool the number of interpretations that people can have of a poem…are any right or wrong…i dunno…its cool though to see…this feels rather weightless, everything stretching out from the narrator…i really like the coming together though in the mural…that part is really cool to me…smiles.
The most wonderful thing about poetry is how differently we all interpret them—lovely piece!
I appreciate yo letting us in on what your poem was saying. It’s amazing how poetry is interpreted by readers. It may say one thing to one person and mean something else to another. That’s the beauty of poets and artist’s. The write is healing no matter what. Great stuff!