Addendum to the Accoutrements

Attempt number two to fulfill Cori Story's challenge to write "a poem that makes absolutely no sense. No technique; completely vague and cryptic to the point that, even you, don't know what it means."

this is pretty much bang on; a-mazing triumph for your challenge in my humble opinion. of course, we still await Cori's judgement, but this fits the description. i hope you're keeping that other one though. i'd quite like to visit it on occassion.

Haha, yes I will be keeping the other one, I don't generally take down poems. I personally like the other one a little better too, though this one is slowly growing on me. Thanks!

I should never read the comments before I comment myself -- "absolutely no sense"?  Damn.  Makes good sense to me, but then I never claimed to be completely normal.  I get a really wonderful sense of surrealism out of this -- which, fair enough, isn't logical and the meanings aren't going to be fixed, but that's what I like best.  Each stanza is self-contained and you do actually build the images into a kind of sense (sorry, I hope that doesn't sit badly with the competition and I don't want you to think it's a fail point...)

For myself, I get a sense of avoiding expectations and even subtly challenging authority.  "Susceptibility" to me indicates allowing another force -- perhaps nature -- to determine a seemingly random path. And the three-legged dog, well, he just doesn't conform to conventional standards. See, I told you, I'm not normal :)  

Well, I went with random ideas I suppose, rather than random words... So it's sort of like that game we used to play in preschool, where they'd show you four pictures and you had to make a story out of it. Except they were sequential and made sense, this is as completely random as I can get. Thanks for the analysis!

Ah! I didn't see this one. As lovely as the first and definitely fits the description. And because it references cats purring, I'm automatically in love. Amazing. :]

This in my opinion is a much better answer to Cori's challenge than your previous piece, which made sense in its own bizarre way. This is one of those poems where you feel the beauty in each line, even if you don't understand what form that beauty takes. Like looking at an intricate sculpture of something you don't recognise.

dog content with three legs, so that it may rest and doesn't care to have the fourth one coz he doesn't wanna move, the cat however, dwells in curiosity and sails in the winds of change. That's what I got.

Hahaha, wow... It was literally written to be nonsense, and people are reading so much into it. I love the human mind.

If enough time is spent Looking for sense or pattern (even where none exist).. Eventually one will be found.

Thats the beauty of interpretation!

Hilarious and well crafted nonsense.. I take my hat off to you, good Sir ;)

Thanks, violet. Indeed, human nature is to make sense of things, it can be very interesting to watch the mind try.

How much do you wana bet Violet wasn't wearing a hat when she posted that?