Mike, I think there are needs for all types of poetry and this one is making
a statement. I like the subject matter and the way you speak the truth as
you see it. The verse that means most to me is the third one and if I had
written on this subject would have liked it to end on a more positive note
but then the title would have to be changed to the perfect contact. So that
I or we or everyone else for that matter has not lived in vain. I think your
poem could be for further discussion on this matter. sally J
>From: Mike Horwood <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub. That Imperfect Contact
>Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:06:51 +0200
>
>That Imperfect Contact
>
>It isnīt a question of having not lived in vain.
>Itīs more a distrust of `saints and sinnersī histories
>with forward-looking heroes and reactionary tyrants
>and journeys into the sunset of a better future.
>
>Not that this precludes a sense of the vitality of others
>and their living uniqueness, only that interpretation
>must sound the drumbeat of relativity and doubt
>about the judgements we betray ourselves into.
>
>And yet beyond ambition and the pride of possession,
>after the sleepless doubts before dawn and the funeral meats,
>beyond all this, the need for a sense of belonging
>that can only be conferred by another being.
>
>But memory and the distances implied by observation
>carry us beyond the personal to a surprising recognition.
>It isnīt a question of having not lived in vain.
>Itīs a question of that imperfect contact by which we find ourselves.
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