09-07-2011, 07:04 AM
Thank you both for your kind words and feedback. Billy, the poem was inspired by Walt Whitman's "O Pioneers", specifically it's use in this advert:
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Apathist, I see what you mean about the slideshow of woodland antics. That's an excellent way of putting it, and pretty much sums up my process for this poem haha
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Apathist, I see what you mean about the slideshow of woodland antics. That's an excellent way of putting it, and pretty much sums up my process for this poem haha
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe