It Can Make Difference Comments

happy almost-birthday to you. a big 5-0! as for the poem, the first of yours i've read. let me read it again............excuse me........i'm reading. shhhhhhhh! ===================================== i'm guessing that these lines: Your icy touch To my hearts clutch Can make a difference Too much .............are very important to the meaning of the poem. BUT i am not sure what they mean, especially the word clutch. i want to believe it is used here as a noun, rather than a verb. i have copied definitions of clutch, as a noun, below: [are you possibly comparing some mechanism of your heart to a coupling used to connect and disconnect a driving and a driven part, as listed in definition #2? if that is the use of clutch here, then i say you should have an apostrophe in hearts so it reads heart's. see what i mean. that makes sense to me, though i wouldn't have thought of it if i hadn't read the definitions. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2- clutch noun Definition of CLUTCH 1 a: the claws or a hand in the act of grasping or seizing firmly b: an often cruel or unrelenting control, power, or possession [the fell clutch of circumstance — W. E. Henley] c: the act of grasping, holding, or restraining 2 a: a coupling used to connect and disconnect a driving and a driven part (as an engine and a transmission) of a mechanism b: a lever (as a pedal) operating such a clutch 3 : a tight or critical situation: pinch [come through in the clutch] 4 : clutch bag - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AND, ............... i had the feeling that the person referred to as you, in the poem's first line, was thought of in a 'nice' way by the speaker. but the use of icy touch makes me think otherwise. or are there mixed feelings/interactions between you and me? ? ? maybe my problem in understanding is because in the first line you write i owe to you. i normally think of someone owing someone for something 'nice', but perhaps the speaker is using owe to you the way i would use blame you......to indicate something NOT nice that is from you. an interesting poem. there certainly is a lot of turmoil/anguish expressed. right? thanks for sharing. bri ;)

another wonderful poem of emotion, Love is indeed the heart of the most moving poems. Well written.