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Ode to myself

<p>Old self whose ink man abhors Old self whose pencils speak volumes Of fierce battles lost and won on battlefields invisible But if thy ink divorces a trophy It would not thus divorce us.</p>

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I guess that I'm too much of a traditionalist to be able to make sense of this. Sorry I can't be helpful and give you a better critique. Maybe some of the others here can help. ~ Geezer.
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First I need to see this poem in a poetic format...like a painting is paint is on a stretched canvas (usually) so a poem needs to look like a poem.

Ode To Myself

Old self, whose ink man abhors,
Old self, whose pencils speak volumes
Of fierce battles lost and won on battlefields invisible-

But if thy ink divorces a trophy
It would not thus divorce us.

This really feels like a poem, and the words are wonderful. I'm trying very hard to put together a logic of the events, of the soul of the poem... regretfully I cannot.

I love the title, but if you google it you will see it has been used quite a lot.

You will find on this site some reviewers who prefer vagueness and an abstract expressionist aesthetic applied to poetry. I am not among them, I prefer some coherent image in the poetic narrative. The "meaning" need never be specific, but there needs to be enough so that I am not wondering around in a collage of images trying to figure out their connections. I would love to see more of your work, as I think you do have a good feel for the craft of charging words.

Eumolpus
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
ee cummings

This poem when born by me. If it exists somewhere, i got no idea. But I was very sad when I penned it down. Because i had applied for contest and won nill titles. So i penned that to encourage myself.

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