Hi Bob,

Thanks for comments.

I think I will use different coloured fonts to distinguish the voices of
various speakers - just need to learn the program code for that, so I can do
it in my poetry database.

I'm trying to extend the piece into a series and if I can do that, I expect
the original piece will change - the 'eulogies' if that is the right term
may become more specific and pertinent to the emergent charactor, and I may
be able to flesh out some of the speakers, but at the moment it's hard going
and I'm stuck trying to define the narrator a little more clearly.

Still, we can but try, no?

Cheers,

Frank

> Hi Frank,
> Interesting. I didn't quite get it until I read other comments and
realised
> that it was more voices than I initially realised.
> It might be, therefore, that all the characters need some differentiation,
> some way of letting the reader in one the secret as they begin - or even
> before they begin.
> It could, for instance, start with a note after the title saying "A Poem
For
> 6 (or whatever) Voices"
> Or each of the speakers could be given a name (like in a play script, like
> in Under Milkwood)
> I guess, because it's not usual to read something that appears as a poem,
> that can also be read as something else I'm suggesting that.
> (Myself, I sort of feel differering typefaces - bolds, italics etc - may
be
> interpreted in different ways by different readers - folk might thing Bold
=
> shout!, italics = thoughts not spoken, or whatever).
> It's amazing how it all works when I realised I shouldn't try and fit it
all
> into one person's mouth!
> Bob