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POEM: "Where Sound Goes When It's Done"

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In photography the Law of Thirds is about composition. This little poem is about the composition of the mind, maybe the composition of matter too. But relax, it's no underground LHC proton accelerator.  

 

Do you always get what you want?

You will never get your own true love.

It's the Law of Thirds. The third one out

Third smartest, third most likely to succeed

She was your third choice, and you were hers

(Sorry, it's the Law.) And time starts to die

At the third stroke, the echo by the third second

The history of the book in the third chapter

Her interminable dream by the third yawn

Yours too. (That's the Law, you know

It's where sound goes when it's done.)

This poem will be gone the third time

You chance to look for it. So will you.

I found it the third time I stopped looking.

 

                          ©ROB SCHACKNE (2008)

 

12:14 - Tuesday 16 September 2008 - post comment


Photography and Poetry

I love what James Natchwey, the great living "War Photographer", says about Photography -- and this can also be applied to Poetry:

"Photography is the opposite to war. If used properly it is the antidote to war. We are required to look at the horror. If we don't, who will?"

Inspired?


Edited by borisknack on Sunday 5 October 2008 at 04:01

Photography and Poetry - 13:40 - Thursday 25 September 2008


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