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Is this knot what you meant? Stefanie Alison adds friction to her fiction

Posted on by Thornton Sully
22
Feb

(tying stuff together with a rope prevents things from happening–that’s why its called a “not”. The English added the “K” for the same superfluous reason they aded a “u” in “humour”. It’s a tradition back from the days when Robin Hood tied up the rich in order to rob them in Knottingham Forrest)

Our sweet and prolific Stefanie Alison has a second entry into A Dozen Roses from a Single Thorn: A Valentine’s Day Love Story.

Before the roses melt and the chocolates wilt, why not enter the contest yourself?  Here is how:

http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/2014/01/15/roses-and-chocolates-and-thorns-oh-my-our-first-contest-of-2014/

In the meantime, here

Gordian Knot

by Stefanie Alison

 

They have mistaken

My cries of pain

As nothing more

Than the friction of rope

 

They tug

They pull

They threaten

To rip

 

They believe

If they try

If they are strong

They will undo me

 

But it was only

A rumor

I will only

Get tighter

 

But what they

Failed to do

With their

Brawny hands

 

You did with a gentle smile.

*************************************

Stefanie ALWAYS makes me smile.

And now, putting a little more English on it, is the rope knot named after Anne Bowline because her hands were tied with this configuration when she got in over her head.

Thornton Sully

Thorn founded A Word with You Press in 2009, having Jack-Londoned his way across the globe sleeping with whatever country would have him, picking up stray stories along with way. A litter of dog-eared passports that have taken up residence in his sock drawer are a constant temptation, but, having at last discovered paradise, it’s not likely he will stray too far from his adopted city of Prague. He has helped hundreds of writers reach their potential, including best-selling authors and award winners. He is the author of Fire in the Belly: How to write your novel with Purpose and Passion, Almost Avalon, The Boy with a Torn Hat and The Courtesans of God saga, and multiple anthologies.

5 thoughts on “Is this knot what you meant? Stefanie Alison adds friction to her fiction”

  3. Parisianne Modert says:

    “Gordian Knot” for me is by far the best writing I had read from you to date Stephanie. Others may disagree with me, but I sense both great resistance and horrible pain in being taken advantage of first from others against your will and second through charm which lies. Your poem to me states that it is not the vicious robber of our being which hurts most, not the knot of being tightly restrained, but the love we pray for and the love of promise broken which actually is the most damaging. The poem as I read it speaks of violation that not only wounds healing with scars, but the lies and deceit which kill innocence.

    I would be interested in reading your own thoughts about this poem Stephanie.

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