No worries,

Colin


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> Hello Colin,
              Thanks for your comments on this one. I think I can go along
with your interpretation but I think there could be other ways of reading
it, too.




Best wishes,   Mike




> From: Colin dewar <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2003/09/13 Sat PM 09:34:06 EEST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New sub: Witness
>
> Bob,
>
> I don't know if it's of help ( but have generally appreciated collateral
> input going thro' people's poems) but what I took from this poem was that
> the protagonist was demonstrating ideas of self-reference (that incidental
> features of the environment had personal significance), and together with
> the bandaged wrists indicative of self-injury, captured a period of
intense
> distress.
>
> Mike can now correct me on that one.
>
> Colin
>
>
>
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> From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 2:49 PM
> Subject: Re: New sub: Witness
>
>
> Hi Mike,
> I find this an intruiging piece!
> It captures a moment so well. I don't think I know why the person is so
> captivated by what he's seeing, and I'm a little thrown by his feet
> disturbing the twigs - I take it the twigs must, therefore, be on the
ground
> and not on the tree - but I do feel the person's expected to do something
> after the poem has finished...
> ...but then, in other readings I think, "No, just that he knows that
nature
> knows more than can be told, and just being so focused on what's there, is
> enough!"
> Is the person just a "Witness" tho - as the title indicates - or is what
> he's observing/witnessing changing him in some way? (I seem to think
there's
> some change afoot!) in the same way that there must have been some change
> before the poem started (ie - why he had to have his hands bandaged!).
> Bob
>
>
> >From: Mike Horwood <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: New sub: Witness
> >Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:24:35 +0300
> >
> >Witness
> >
> >There are those days full of knowledge
> >when nature knows more than she tells,
> >when seeds sprout awareness
> >and that stillness under the waving branches
> >betrays intense concentration.
> >Events are recorded in minute detail
> >in each nobble and groove of the tree´s bark
> >and the trunk, rigid with excitement,
> >reflects on them.
> >
> >On such a day he stood with bandaged wrists,
> >afraid to move a foot
> >that might disturb the whispering twigs,
> >while in his focused eye was mirrored
> >all this watching, listening world.
> >
> >
> >Mike
>
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