Song of the Powers

A little quoting:
"Mine, said the stone, mine is the hour. Icrush the scissors," - reminds me of the childhood "tie-breaker"game, rock, paper, scissors. The rock always dominates unless attacked by paper.

"stronger than wishes my power alone"-to me this quote from the first stanza illustrates how simple powers can overrule huge wishes, and with that said it gives the stone more power than just simply winning over scissors.

"mine are words that smother the stone"-reminds me of ancient times when the first people used to write all over stones to communicate, and now paper took over that way of communication.

"They all end alone. As you will, you will."- This seems a bit morbid to me, as if Mason, the poet, was trying to suggest no matter how much we deny it, everyone in some way expires alone.

They structure of the poem is my favorite, four stanzas with and equal amount of lines for each. The last stanza is a bit longer, but also shares a greater deal. I was correct about the poem being about rock paper scissors, but the poet definetly cut deeper into the childhood act and gave meaning to each seperate piece.

When i googled David Mason, it gave me a list of guys with the same name, one was a british trumpet player, one was a murder, one was a writer, and one was a football player. So im assuming the writer was the correct man...But with him being the poet, (hopefully) I discovered that he was born in Bellingham, Washington which I think is pretty fascinating because I feel like a lot of writers are from the west. Also he studied at Colorado college, but soon left so he could be a fisherman in Alaska, which is the succesful life of the usual poet. He also lived in Greece and he now lives in colorado springs. (So i think we should ask him to come speak to our class because he seems interesting.)

I love this poem though, and i think it has a beautiful hidden metaphor to be discovered by the readers.