01-08-2022, 07:51 AM
Thanks for the eyes on it, Torkel-
I wasn’t thinking of rhyming with “green. I was more thinking of the harmless aspect of those snakes.
At 12, I was rather “green” myself, and this rather obliquely will refer to the “young girl” at the end; also at that “green” age.
I was at the age when I was becoming more interested in real “angels” than more abstract deities.
One device that was quite intentional was to keep each line at 6 syllables, for no other reason than I wanted to do that without drawing attention to it (though I guess I have now.)
I mainly wanted to convey/remember what going to church meant to me at age 12, when I was beginning to question that aspect of my young life, while becoming very curious about down to earth, physical attractions that were drawing my attention.
And I wanted to attempt it in a lighthearted way.
Mark
I wasn’t thinking of rhyming with “green. I was more thinking of the harmless aspect of those snakes.
At 12, I was rather “green” myself, and this rather obliquely will refer to the “young girl” at the end; also at that “green” age.
I was at the age when I was becoming more interested in real “angels” than more abstract deities.
One device that was quite intentional was to keep each line at 6 syllables, for no other reason than I wanted to do that without drawing attention to it (though I guess I have now.)
I mainly wanted to convey/remember what going to church meant to me at age 12, when I was beginning to question that aspect of my young life, while becoming very curious about down to earth, physical attractions that were drawing my attention.
And I wanted to attempt it in a lighthearted way.
Mark