Verse Blank

8/24/2011

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You can't argue with blank space
(it has nothing and everything in it)
or ever catch it yielding place.
You can't argue with blank space.
With all to gain and nothing to face -
and only once to begin it -
You can't argue with blank space.
It has nothing and everything in it.




I'm really really hoping that the reluctance to post here was similar to not wanting to take the first piece of cake - so now that I've made the necessary faux pas, please share your creative endeavors!
5 Comments
Joey
8/24/2011 01:04:41 pm

This is a cool poem. It strikes me as kind of Zen-like. I dig it. But who wrote it?

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Lillian
8/25/2011 12:32:39 am

Wait, yeah. I really enjoyed this poem! Who is the mysterious author??

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Laura S.
8/26/2011 07:03:53 am

Oops. That was me. Thanks!

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Conor
8/26/2011 12:05:02 pm

Laura,

Thank you for this post. I enjoyed it very much. Like all of your poetry, I thought it was very well written. Certainly not a faux pas by any means. Keep tapping that Muse of yours.

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Joey
8/28/2011 04:39:20 am

I have a suggestion for a reading of this poem. Could the "blank space" here be considered a metaphor for God or the idea of God? After all, you can't argue with God or ever catch God yielding place...and I could make the case for the line "It has nothing and everything in it" applying to the idea of God. If you think about it a certain way, scriptural texts have "nothing and everything in them," because they must be interpreted by our subjective understandings in order to acquire meaning. A text is a kind of blank space waiting for the individual consciousness to enter into it, "with all to gain and nothing to face - and only once to begin it."

Discuss.

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