Can any one help me decipher this poem?

Question

"the air is cold. the earth is old. rotted and wasted but never sold. I don't need what is wrapped and folded. Life s not oragami. Rewind. I am in a world I can't find fire burns the senses gently in a botomless sea that is only ever wet. Where did happy greetig smiles go?"

Answer 1

Is it not fairly self-explanatory or am I missing the point? It's a bloody awful poem.

Answer 2

Is it a bad translation?

If so, can you give it in the original language and someone *might* be able to help.........

Answer 3

what do u wanna kno?

Answer 4

If you want to 'decipher' it in a really literary manner then analyse ...

the rhymes - what connects the words that rhyme?

the sentence lengths - WHY longer, why shorter?

the imagery - why have those specific images been used?

punctuation or lack of

Etc.

Man I have spent my whole education so far analysing rubbish like this!!

Answer 5

It strikes me that it is rubbish - I hope you didn't write this.

What does, the earth is never sold mean? What does I don't need what is wrapped and folded mean?  Ditto Origami, then it jumps to 'Rewind' even though the metaphor is nothing to do with film. And, as you say the line 'fire burns etc. ' is just well....I am speechless.

Answer 6

its about the decline of the earth due to man, how man has corrupted what was once a happy smiling world and made it what it is today, full of metal and polloution.  

Answer 7

The person who wrote that was out of sorts either because he is using the wrong fabric softener or has not had a good dinner.

He feels isolated and does not trust people. This is what happens when you forget to eat.

He is on about complaining about this and that in a not too clear nor articulate way, and that is precisely what happens when your fabric softener is wrong. Chafing ruins many a poet. It's a little like women who use too much conditioner. I flattens the landscape and clouds desire.

Answer 8

I don't mean to be nasty - but who told you that was a poem?

If you can re-post it with the original line breaks, (or / where there is a line break in the manuscript) it just might make more sense, but at the moment it seems to me like something a 14 year old may have written in the early 1980s after listening to too much 'Human League' and 'The Jam'.

Answer 9

at an individual level, this poem could be about Aging - how life has changed from rosy & bright to dreary & cold & lonely & wrinkled ("folded") ;-)