Thank's for the comments - and the paragraph you quote! I guess the word 
"heart" is used in so many ways - and I'm now wondering if I can use what 
you've offered in some way. It's certainly an intruiging insight/comment! It 
also adds significance to still including the word in the title - I was 
toying with looking at the poem in a different way and opting for a very 
different title. Titles are such trouble - they need a head that's 
half-reader and half-writer to create them.
Bob


>From: calaya <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: new sub: Heart Trouble
>Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:34:28 -0800
>
>Heart Trouble
>
>Everywhere in the UK there are people
>like us: confused when the phone rings
>and then the voice just says, It’s me.
>How are you? And there’s a pause. But it’s alright.
>Like with drizzle the world cleanses itself
>in such forgetful, such gentle ways.
>And later you start talking to a young mum
>when you hand back the toy her child’s dropped
>and she says lots of things that don’t matter
>except she’s glad to say them to someone
>who smiles. Then maybe you stumble
>into a hospital, a vast waiting room
>that’s not for your appointment and full
>where four students are playing Beethoven,
>how they concentrate, how they don’t blink,
>so focused on what they must do
>and, like me, you sit in that somewhere else
>for as long as it takes to return
>to a world where whatever happens
>is careful, makes sense, is always OK.
>
>Bob Cooper
>_______________
>   Well, I'm "sure" about this poem: that it works really well for me. I 
>hope you get sure, too. Hope you don't mind, but I want to share with you 
>one of the reasons I reckon your poem feels so "wow" with me this morning. 
>I've been rereading an "old" (2002) book by Joseph Chilton Pearce (The 
>Biology of Transcendence). Here's a paragraph from the intro which I just 
>read last night and woke pondering:
>
>   "As long intuited by poet and saint, the fifth brain in our system lies 
>not in our head, but in our heart, a hard biological fact (to give the 
>devil of science his due) that was unavailable to the prescientific world. 
>Neurocardiology, a new field of medical research, has discovered in our 
>heart a major brain center that functions in dynamic with the fourfold 
>brain in our head. Outside our conscious awareness, this heart-head dynamic 
>reflects, determines, and affets the very nature of our resulting awareness 
>even as it is, in turn, profoundly affected."  Joseph Chilton Pierce
>
>   thanks for you peom...i'm inspired.
>   later
>   calaya
>
>
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