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From: "judy prince" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: poem
Hi, Douglas,
I didn't get that---still don't. But I like the poem anyway.
My favorites of yours are Susan #1 (Halloween) and #2 (Citadel), Merlin in
Winter (not the least because you've put my name in it), Cernunnos, and
Marty (poem 2).
You've written that poetry has left you, and it makes me wonder, can a
poet truly lose the Muse? I'm quite serious, and my feeling is that a poet
cannot lose the Muse. But I am ready and willing to be instructed in the
truth.
Your fan,
Judy
Thanks Judy. I was just explaining to Anny that when I wrote 'Verse' in
Edinburgh thirtyeight years ago I was rhyming i with a e o u and had to
struggle for rhymes but made it in the end..phew!
Regarding poetry thanks for liking poems but the inspiration just went in
1996 and has only returned a couple of times since then. Once when Marty the
kitten came into the house. Some poets can only write when they are in love
and that might be the explanation but it is probably deeper than that..more
likely to do with confidence. If you dont believe you are the cat's pyjamas
the words dont jump into the head anymore.
All my work is on my website butr there arent many readers nowadays (except
for the last poem I wrote, the confessional poem, which I will post next
Sunday at its anniversary.) seening that Google has downgraded my Cat and
Kitten Poems in its listings.
But the truth in a way is that Basil Bunting told me never to repeat myself
and if I wrote love or cat poems again I would just finish up parodying
myself and I havent the ability to stretch much beyond that. And it just
isnt there anymore. Few poets go on past sixty, unless you are Yeats.
Cheers.
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