Hi Barbara,
You write:
"I'm afraid I can't tell by your second comment if you are saying you like
that the air was cool and that it adds to the poem in some way, or if you,
in fact, are making that comment tongue in cheek.
Either way, I guess I don't assume by cool that it is chilly or cold.  A hot
summer day that suddenly turns cool can be a wonderful turn of events."

I guess I didn't know, fully, what "cool" meant for you. It's one of those
relative words isn't it. Cool for The Tropics is sweltering for here! I
didn't grasp that "cool" meant "It's cooler than this afternoon!" - perhaps
I was wondering if it meant: "It's cooler where we are now than the hot
passion we once felt when we were either in the same physical place or
somewhere else..."
I was reading the word as including some symbolism - "across the cool
night's sigh" - and not over sure what the word cool meant or the word sigh
(is it a sigh of frustration, contentment, dissapointment, resignation, or
what?). I was also thinking "the feeling of what may happen after the second
stanza is, erm, hot..." so is this their only heat in a cool world, etc.,
etc.
Bob
Who might be one of those guys who sometimes, when a companion says, "It's
cool" as a hint for a cuddle, goes off to get her a coat!




Barbara Ostrander <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Longing-Bob
>Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:20:15 EDT
>
>In a message dated 9/2/2003 1:14:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > Hi Barbara,
> > Just a quick thought...
> > A saxophone that gently bleeds and a guitar that gently weeps... I guess
> > "gently" has been taken by George Harrison and I can't get the
>similarity
> > out of my head - how about anyone else?
> > I also like the point that the first line says the night is cool! Is
>this
> > sax being played out of doors? If it is then it's a fine way of having
> > things that usually happen somewhere in the warmth of indoors happening
> > outside in the chill air - that gives the pretending another edge.
> > Bob
> >
>Bob,
>
>Well, I didn't connect the two but obviously you did so that may be a
>possible problem.
>
>I'm afraid I can't tell by your second comment if you are saying you like
>that the air was cool and that it adds to the poem in some way, or if you,
>in
>fact, are making that comment tongue in cheek.
>
>Either way, I guess I don't assume by cool that it is chilly or cold.  A
>hot
>summer day that suddenly turns cool can be a wonderful turn of events.
>
>Thanks for letting me know how it came off to you.
>
>Barbara
>

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