Is
> it because you're saying less and allowing the more to resonate?
This could be it.
> Are there other ways of writing on the subject which members have
> observed to be successful? found to be so in their own attempts?
>
I have a couple of others that were deifnitely more prosaic - and a little
preaching to the converted. I was in a warm fuzzy mood when I wrote them.
I once came out of hospital after a 'rest' and walked across the rocky hills
singing Gregorian chants and chanting Hare Krishna to the heavens in
religious ectsacy - somewhat stoned on prescribed medecines, methinks. The
Hallucinogenic Effects of Breathing indeed ... I wish I'd written a poem
then! For every ten or twelve whacko poems I write, I get a goody. How's
your average?
> [Personally, I find the same problems rear their heads if I try to write
> love poetry, now that I'm 40 years too old to do it unselfconsciously.]
>
Hmm, many a love poem of my youth was in fact a 'lust' poem. A recent love
sonnet hit the mark - because it was sincere and simple. It wouldn't wina
poetry comp in today's world, though.
> Think I might be brave and post an angel poem of my own, from my chapbook
> The Hallucinogenic Effects of Breathing. In Hexham Abbey there's a broken
> carving, of which a pair of feet and the tip of a right-hand wing are
still
> distinguishable.
>
Great. Any pics on the web?
I liked it. I did worry about God's extremes - Isn't he outside measurement?
Infinite? All that jive ... & I really liked 'the old certainties/dissolved
to brighter insights' ... Thanks for posting it.
Andre d'Earth
> THE HEXHAM ANGEL
>
>
> best joanna
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