Friday, 15 April 2011

M is for ... ???

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Clue for today: The state of mind is not the narrator of this poem, it's the person the narrator is referring to.

Nailed

In Woodwork when
I nailed my thumb
to a handmade spoon
I thought of you.

I thought you’d enjoy
watching me scream—
watching the blood
gush—stain my brown
leather school shoes—
the ones I punctured
with bass clefs in Textiles.

I imagine you trying
to push my blood
in the holes.


So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) depicted in this poem that begins with the letter ‘M’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our M-prompt word. Here’s the link!



 
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20 comments:

  1. Anonymous15 April 2011 at 14:33

    misery/melancholy

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  2. Unknown15 April 2011 at 14:53

    Whoa, this gave me chills. I love your dark stuff! Brilliant!

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  3. Bish Denham15 April 2011 at 15:17

    It seems to me the person being written about would enjoy watching the writer's pain. So it's not masochism because that would be the writer enjoying her own self-inflicted pain.

    Other "m" words aren't right either, melancholia, misery...

    How about malevolent malice?

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  4. Anonymous15 April 2011 at 15:21

    The first word that came to mind was macabre...

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  5. Linda G.15 April 2011 at 15:37

    Hmmm. I thought Nicole's was mayhem, but this looks more like misery to me. Guess y'all stumped me today.

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  6. Angela15 April 2011 at 15:38

    Great poem, Jessica. I really feel this. Murderous?

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  7. Matthew MacNish15 April 2011 at 15:40

    I'm going with Madness, because you're a mad crazy artist Jessica.

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  8. Eliza15 April 2011 at 16:03

    MAD, it must be.

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  9. Michael Di Gesu15 April 2011 at 16:38

    Madness on so many levels.

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  10. Samantha Sotto15 April 2011 at 16:46

    Malicious? Murderous?

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  11. Unknown15 April 2011 at 16:53

    Brilliantly macabre! I can just picture Wednesday Addams staring at this bleeding person. I'm going say madness.

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  12. Ellie Garratt15 April 2011 at 18:33

    I'm really not sure with this one. I'll be back to check tomorrow!

    Ellie Garratt

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  13. RHYTHM AND RHYME15 April 2011 at 18:42

    I can't even hazzard a guess at this one Jessica.

    Yvonne,

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  14. Talli Roland15 April 2011 at 19:40

    Wow! This gave me goosebumps!

    I'm going to go with malevolence.

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  15. Anonymous15 April 2011 at 19:59

    The only m word I can think of that might fit here is malicious. I'll be back tomorrow to find out how far off base I was.

    MM the Queen of English
    http://queenofenglish.wordpress.com

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  16. Laura S.15 April 2011 at 21:45

    Creepy! This is different than what I guessed at Nicole's, but it sounds malevolent to me.

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  17. Ann15 April 2011 at 22:53

    The first M that came into my head was, Melodrama!

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  18. Susan Flett Swiderski15 April 2011 at 23:25

    Well, darn, based on Nicole's post, I thought the word was merriment, but your post is much more evocative of madness.

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  19. Marjorie15 April 2011 at 23:37

    I think I'm still saying madness.

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  20. Mary@GigglesandGuns15 April 2011 at 23:47

    Nicole's suggested mayhem and this suggests misery.

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