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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.

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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

Thornton Sully has Jack-Londoned his way across the globe sleeping with whatever country would have him, and picking up stray stories along the way. A litter of dog-eared passports that have taken up residence in his sock drawer are a constant temptation, but, as the founder in 2009 of A Word with You Press, dedicated to helping you tell your story persuasively and with passion, it’s not likely he will stray too far from the towers that are A Word with You Press, now located in the Bohemian village of Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic, except, perhaps, for an occasional swim in the Aegean. Authors who have sought his advice have won major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Isabel Allende Miraposa Award for new fiction, and the Best Poetry Award from San Diego Writers' Awards. "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." Thornton Sully, plagiarizing E.B. White

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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