Clarity—from the Proverbs of Tharmas Erthona

[Erthona]

Sorry milo, but you are very limited in your thinking if you think communication is limited to a verbal message. Pleasure is a form of communication. Any kind of emotional response engendered by the poem is a form of communication. However, my question is this. If you are not communicating anything and the reader does not receive any form of communication what is the point of what you are doing? what makes it different from what a chicken scratches in the dirt. The chicken is not trying to communicate anything, nor does he communicate anything, although I am sure he does derive some pleasure so pleasure from doing so. Unless you are a chicken, it is ridiculous to assert you are not trying to communicate something. If you say you only do it for pleasure, then why post it for others to read. What are they suppose to do with such a puddle of goo. Besides, your own writing condemns you, as they have always seemed very forthright in trying to communicate, or am I wrong and it was just really empty headed blather?
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Shem, I think if you will revisit the proverb you will see it is focused on the writer and toward the writer and not the reader. If it were for the reader, it would say something like:

Do not give up when you have simply scratched the surface, to find gold one must dig deeper.

But yes, I agree with you on your current assessment.

Dale