----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: poem
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: poem
>
>
>>I especially like the last two lines, Douglas. Difficult to end a poem as
>> well as that.
>>
>> Robin
>>
> Thanks Robin. It is an ancient old poem as all my poems are. I couldnt
> possibly write anything like that nowadays.
>
My criteria for writing a succesful poem has always been that the reader
should gasp out loud on reading it. It doesnt happen very often.
The reason that poetry has left me is that the words no longer form in
clumps in my brain and evolve structure. Something happened around 1996
which took that away from me. Some inner belief perhaps. If I tried to write
a poem nowadays it would be pure mechanical technique without the organic
quotient.
And now for the pub then the results of Rangers and Celtic. Up the Bully
Wee!
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