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Hello again Arthur,
                   If I could identify the feeling it might also be helpful. But seriously, when I wrote the poem I think I had some kind of feeling in mind part of the time and in my own mind I hint at that feeling with phrases like `coming together and going apart´. I don´t believe it is necessary for the reader to have the same sense of those phrases as I have, each reader could imagine something diffeent. But this poem is much more about how we attempt to put a feeling, any feeling, into words and into a poem and whether the method we use results in the original feeling that we experienced in the real world being  contained in the poem and communicated to the reader, or whether we in fact produce something quite different which is in fact no feeling at all. The idea originated in something Terri said in a discussion about feelings being represented in poetry. Terri referred to a practice of imagining a feeling as (if I remember right) a piece of fruit or a musical tone or a colour.
About the gravity; I heard a report recently about a small meteorite that is permanently orbiting the sun in almost the same orbit as our earth and which periodically gets flicked from an inner course to an outer. I think the force that did the flicking was connected with the earth´s gravity, but I´ve probably garbled the whole thing. I wondered whether I should include this but decided in favour because the image suited so well. If I´ve completely misrepresented the laws of physics then...then...then I think they will have to be changed, for the sake of the poem. What am I to do?

Puzzled of Finland


Thanks a lot for your reading, Arthur. If you can cast any light on that meteorite and gravity, I´d be very grateful.


Best wishes,    Mike





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If I could identify the 'feeling' that might be helpful.The closest feeling
I can guess at is inebriation involving liquid refreshment but I could be
wrong.
BTW, in a sling centrifugal force is a function of velocity and mass and
does not involve gravity. Regards Arthur
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From: "Mike Horwood" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:58 PM
Subject: New sub: Feeling


> Feeling
>
> If this feeling was a colour
> it would be invisible.
> If this feeling was a building
> it would fall down.
> If this feeling was an idea
> it would make no sense
> and would have no place
> in a poem like this
> that contains only colours
>
> and buildings. And actions,
> like a dog chasing a rat,
> or waves running up a beach
> and falling back,
> or the way gravity pulls
> but can also repel
> with the force of a sling.
>
> If this feeling was action
> it would be a series of movements,
> of coming together and going apart
> with in fact no feeling, or will, at all.
>
>
>
> Mike