We probably should all right, Doug, Andrew. I'm just identifying a feeling
as Pat appears to recognise. It's pre-conscious.
Bill
On Thursday, November 26, 2015, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> And we’ve probably all felt it at one time or another; & then should
> realize that others may have felt it about us…
>
> Doug
> > On Nov 25, 2015, at 4:35 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Pat. It's not resentment, the feeling. Just, sometimes, a rising
> > vacuum in the face of so much, I don't know, certainty of direction in
> > others?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wednesday, November 25, 2015, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> <mailto:
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>>> wrote:
> >
> >> Bill yes that feeling -and sometimes dependant on mood -Andrew's comment
> >> feels like a steamroller -about treating the feeling -which is different
> >> from the poem -or summat cheers P now heading to snap (hopefully)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>
> >> <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> >> Sent: 25 November 2015 01:14
> >> To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> <javascript:;>
> >> Subject: Re: The hollow
> >>
> >> Yeh, probably right, Andrew. This was not a shaped poem by any means nor
> >> an argument. Just a snap of an internal feeling sometimes.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>
> >> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Then, put them aside,
> >>> praise them for their focus
> >>> and turn your lights
> >>> on high beam for
> >>> your journey ahead.
> >>>
> >>> On 25 November 2015 at 09:14, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>
> >> <javascript:;>
> >>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> That gaping gap in the guts feeling
> >>>> when someone tells of what they have been doing or next intend to do
> >>>> and it all sounds like a level of focus you have never had and never
> >>>> will.
> >>>>
> >>>> bw
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
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