Hi Helen,
Animus or Anima -- main thing is you wrote a damn good poem.
Ioana
At 12:05 AM 10/07/00 +0000, you wrote:
> From me the she
>thank you all, for your kind comments on this poem. I know that we all
>have that certain voice going on in our head, sometimes I wonder what
>gender it is. As Deepak Choppra says, it's that little voice that never
>shuts up! So, what gender it is I don't know, maybe it's genderless. What
>I find as a female poet is the struggle with the language itself; trying
>to sound as female as possible, to write language that sounds as female as
>possible, so I revert to the female experience, but this won't do for
>every poem. As Geraldine McKenzie says, 'we need better words.'
>However, what I would like to see are the male poets confirming the female
>experience, in turn this would confirm the female voice and substantiate
>what women are saying in poetry as being equally important. Men writing
>about for eg. the beauty of childbirth, the closeness to children, taking
>them to the park, teaching them to ride a bike, or perhaps write about
>their mothers' struggles in life from their perspective, or an omniscient
>POV, but not in a masculine way. I don't see a lot of this poetry, except
>men writing about the 'beautiful' woman. But we are not all Elle McPhersons.
>
>>slant rhymes. The reason I ask is because sometimes I've written a whole
>>poem in slant rhyme without realizing I was doing it.
>
>No. I was only conscious of a rhythm that was coming out.
>Cheers
>Helen
>
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