Dear Ann,
I actually said I thought 2 exclamations in one stanza were too much. I
didn't specify which one should go...
Kind regards,
grasshopper

----- Original Message -----
From: V. W.
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] New Sub: Walking with small ghosts


Thanks Christina,
       isn't it wonderful we are all so different. You like the very thing
grasshopper does not. I am beginning to understand that perhaps right and
wrong is not the issue in a lot of poetry, it is perhaps more a question of
what works for the individual, i.e. poet and reader.  Oh, unless you are
writing to a strict form.
       Trouble is with poems of your own creation it is sometimes hard to
evaluate their worth, as our associations are very apparent to us and we can
miss the glaringly obvious faults.
       I can see and feel, when reading someone else's work, a poems
strengths and weaknesses but can miss both in my own, and can rewrite a poem
out of existence. Tricky thing this poetry business, but great fun!

                                                       thanks again
regards Ann