"Destined Minds"

CRITICISM

express anothers shortcomings
till your heart content but be
warned lest your heart wither
and die from envy

dissapprove and point for your
mental faculty emotionally taint
and such the discourse of perceiv-ed
popularity draws the hunger in

and should an artist grow to such
maturity and wield not a loos-ed
tongue to be able to give precise
taxonomy of academic vocabulary

and should one be only held in high
esteem if one relfects the values
of the hidden critic to flatter a
false ego long-ed ignored

and hunger it rises more and who is it
that should hold themselves in high
esteem to be the judge and jury and
maker of judgement of literary?

gaps and ambiguities lie between the
lines, rhetorical incompatibilities
explore implicit planes of discourse
for whom esteems themselves to give

to make such textual analysis
deconstruction privileges the thinking
over speaking, speaking over writing,
philosophy over rhetoric,

and truth over sophistry so
learn well only the trace
of a trace of a trace of meaning
and so the force of imagination

is at the mercy and will, to whom
all it shows it's face but fears
not the critical heart and yields
not to the apparent paradox


Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2008