The composer of the poem could really care less if 'they' do not like the
poem.

Not everyone likes Robert Maplethorpe's photographs or Nirvana's music, that
does not mean that the work is not valid.

Liking a poem is personal, it has nothing to do with the the author's
ability to communicate or not to communicate to all people.

If you wish to delude yourself with the notion that a poet must make his
work readily available to all people then you should be a critic and not a
writer.

Deborah



Delicate Pastel and Harsh Debate

Words can never portray the thought in its entirety, howsoever one may
try, for the thoughts are concepts and the words the symbols. And
symbols are lower, conceivable, expressions of a concept. Because a
concept is usually somewhat abstract for others; it requires a symbol or
symbols for its clarification. Poetry is an attempt to symbolize one
concept at a time in symbols of words.

The problem with our poems, and the poem in question "The Delicate
Pastel", is that here multiple and numerous concepts crowd together, and
their expression in words becomes unintelligible and confusing. Many
readers might then say, "I do not like such poems." However, the
composer of the poem thinks or perceives that she or he is  clear about
the concept, and has rendered the subject intelligible to readers, then
the anguish, "why do they not like my work?"

The remedy is not to insist and expect that readers should/would
understand what one writes!

With malice towards none...

c s shah


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