Pointkess

In nook and cranny,
I'm searching....
Looking for something,
and I don't even know
what it is.

Perhaps I'm just
a barking dog
in the wrong forest.

Reviews

[SirEdwinSantosIII]

This is good, very good. I dig the obscurity.

[nonexistantnow]

:) i'm pretty sure that this is my favorite poem that i have read of yours.
but that may just be because the style is something i am comfortable with and understand pretty well.
of course there are words that bother me and that i would change (ie even, four periods)
but i'm not the writer so i'll just have to shut up & suck it up. =)
i'm a rediculously bad reviewer, but i like the title, your "in" s, and i love the end stza.

i thought it was interesting that you used such ambiguous words like 'searching' and 'looking'
to describe your action, without really referencing the dog in any way in stza one.

i guess i just felt that this poem could be taken and re-written so many ways.
have you ever done that?
rewritten a poem a lot of times, using the same base thought, but changing just a few words each time
or tweaking a metaphor just a little.
i haven't done it in a long time, but it wrought pretty interesting results. :)
i remember one time i did it off the statue of liberty while i was bored and cleaning one day and ended up with about ten poems that were all very different but based on the statue of liberty.
like i based one from its metal composition
another from its french roots
one from its ny/water location
one from its pieced construction,
etc
it was really fun for me. then again, it sounds pretty lame in retrospect.

i don't know. this poem says a lot.
you hate to say that speaking out is pointless,
but unless you can convince every single person
why and what you want
(which you can't. because even you can not word it and all of its counterpoints exactly.)
it is pointless--in the sense that the material thing your seaching for won't be fulfilled

and it's really all about being okay with yourself
(which i can't say i too much agree with)

then again, this poem can be interpreted/manipulated in so, so many ways.
and i read it in a couple of other senses,
but i liked this one best. :)

it's a good poem.
i like things that are okay to be taken how the reader wishes.
hope you're okay. -ty.