Marie Elizabeth Marguerite Lopez Aguirre
WORDS
Angela Manalang Gloria
I never meant the words I said,
So
trouble not your honest head
And never mean the words I write,
But come and kiss me now goodnight.
The words I said break with the thunder
Of billows surging into spray:
Unfathomed depths withhold the wonder
Of all the words I never say.
Sources: http://pinoylit.webmanila.com/filipinowriters/amgloria.htm http://www.sushidog.com/bpss/poems/gloria2.htm
3 comments:
This poem is about saying many things to someone, and never meaning anything but the desire for that someone to show affection for you. Some of your thoughts may not also be heard, but in them lie the "wonders" of your feelings, deep, full, and passionate. Words were not enough to express the gentleness, or otherwise the intensity of emotion. In my opinion, the persona just sees words as a limitation... beyond that limitation is where the true ma=eaning lies.
-Marvin Pedregosa
This speaks to me because I sometimes cannot bring myself to really phrase what I want to say to people. I vent out understatements, withholding me of that "wonder" of coming clean with what I have in mind. I admit abusing that "filter" in my head too much by actually mistaking it for my own timidity sometimes. Personally, I like the poem (Liz has a thing for short ones..haha) for its simplicity and the fact that it made me ponder on some of my experiences where I had a wearying time disclosing my true feelings but eventually did it anyway.
---> Ralph Mendoza
hmmm... deeply defines the word "WORD".
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