09-17-2017, 06:28 AM
Hi - and thank you for your read and comments! I understand when a reader feels they 'fail to get the amount of meaning' becuase often I've written with no clear connection to what was on my mind at the time. 
I don't know if understanding helps much, with poetry. Anyway. I'd reread Judith Wright's poem 'Trapped Dingo' and it called to mind not only a dingo trapper I'd known, but also my mind went riffing with the eternal balance of light and dark, that she refers to in connection with ancient Greek legends, or life lessons. Good/bad, laws and religions, all grapple with this dichotomy. Even Zoroastra, and the speck of matter in the light (which he called Sophia, or knowledge) that relates to the speck of dark in the light side of the I Ching, and that of light in the dark side, which point to the impossibility of one without the other. And how these concepts all play out in modern physics, with the universe being made up of mostly dark matter, which by its attraction or mass, holds everything together.
And for the brief moment I was writing, in my own mind I was holding all these ideas at once, and illustrating them in the actions of a particular person in a particular time and place. Acknowledging the bleak and cosmic laughter of the multiverse? That we can think we can know anything.
So, have you read 'Trapped Dingo'? It will take you to an entirely different train of thought, I know. That's one of the things I love about poetry. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trapped-dingo/
I don't know if understanding helps much, with poetry. Anyway. I'd reread Judith Wright's poem 'Trapped Dingo' and it called to mind not only a dingo trapper I'd known, but also my mind went riffing with the eternal balance of light and dark, that she refers to in connection with ancient Greek legends, or life lessons. Good/bad, laws and religions, all grapple with this dichotomy. Even Zoroastra, and the speck of matter in the light (which he called Sophia, or knowledge) that relates to the speck of dark in the light side of the I Ching, and that of light in the dark side, which point to the impossibility of one without the other. And how these concepts all play out in modern physics, with the universe being made up of mostly dark matter, which by its attraction or mass, holds everything together.
And for the brief moment I was writing, in my own mind I was holding all these ideas at once, and illustrating them in the actions of a particular person in a particular time and place. Acknowledging the bleak and cosmic laughter of the multiverse? That we can think we can know anything.
So, have you read 'Trapped Dingo'? It will take you to an entirely different train of thought, I know. That's one of the things I love about poetry. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trapped-dingo/