Askew

[Leanne]

When GrannyJill asked.

"As to giving life advice - who does that?"

What she is doing is calling into question the premiss upon which your poem is founded, and thus it's worth/value (meaning). Thus she is very much questioning if the poem has meaning.

Dale, thanks for your support. You and I have been around for long enough to know that these types of folk not only exist, they are an epidemic You'll see now, though, why I'm usually hesitant to explain much about a poem directly -- any further comments tend to be directed more at the explanation than the poem, which closes the reader off to any other possibilities.

Once, rather incensed by this trend (in my younger, less diplomatic days!) I deliberately posted a poem addressing a similar topic to this one, with the appended explanation:

"This poem is about the plight of the homosexual wildebeest in a world dominated by leather-clad gnu"

Naturally, there followed several lovely comments about my bravery in speaking out about my oppression