Yes, & it makes a kind of sense.
I do feel that it is a Good Thing if someone does read or hear a poem &
likes it, gets something from it. Needn't be a big audience, but
someone....
On the other hand, that's not why one writes, it's just follow-up....
Doug
On 11-Oct-07, at 8:18 AM, Martin Dolan wrote:
> Not much of an ars poetica, I know, but it works for me.
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and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
Phyllis Webb
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