Misunderstanding
15 December 2015
Gone amiss
The words from my Heart
Coughing ink
Colour pink
Where your white laced bloody red
Morphed pain into bliss
I know you
Miss understanding
Crooked thoughts
Have it nots
Clueless soldiers in a queue
From whole to nothing
I feel you
Misunderstanding
Purpose vain
Like the stain
Of feelings in jugular
Immaculate knot
I hear you
Miss under standing
Ovation
Your talent
Blooms like cherry blossom’s times
When your heart listens
Don’t let me be misunderstood – Nina Simone
I get the feeling of unintended misinterpretation here…that last stanza though…wow! I love that!
🙂
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Thank you Eric. There is that too and a number of things that I wanted to include here and I think in the comments of Thomas and stormwise and my responses you see several of those mapped out.
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Whether we here it wrongly or in the context of our own biases, or if the delivery is off somewhat, there are times when miscommunication leads to misconceptions…sometimes it occurs without any words having been exchanged at all…when information is being put out there, we have to use a balanced approach to processing it or else risk missing the intent…great piece, Geetha!
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Thank you Thomas 🙂 Very true, sometimes misunderstanding happens without any actual exchange of words. Even silences can be misinterpreted
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You are welcome, Geetha 🙂 …yes, they can !
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I didn’t see this earlier – another really good poem, Geetha! What I like about this is that you describe a misunderstanding not just as something we experience, but as something we can truly feel. This is not such a common way of looking at it, for all that it is very true. Instead, in a lot of cases it seems, people experience a misunderstanding as something distant, remote … usually the fault of the other person(s) involved, and while an emotion may be felt as a result of the misunderstanding, the misunderstanding itself is not to be felt. I like your way of looking at it better 🙂
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Thanks Raven. Very insightful. I believe a misunderstanding also can have to do with miscommunication sometimes and not just bad faith, ignorance or lack of sensitivity. I tried to convey that double problem involved in its various aspects, how the words sometimes come across wrong on either side, how sometimes the whole version of what is meant stays stuck in the other person’s throat and only a partial or incomplete and therefore incorrect message is conveyed from the throat with the rest remaining like a stain in the jugular. What I also wanted to convey is that some people miss the whole wording part but because they are good/talented listeners they actually get the meaning because they are listening with the heart and not just the ears
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Brilliant 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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Lovely Geetha ☺
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Thank you Paul 🙂
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It’s funny how misunderstanding are often linked to misconceptions or Miss. Conception and her sneaky vines. Well done, my friend. Another outstanding poem.
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Thank you Tosha. It’s all about hit and miss and conceptions to one extent or the other I guess 😀
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It seems that way.
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