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]> 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:;>] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton > Sent: 25 November 2015 01:14 > To: [log in to unmask] <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:;>> 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:;>> 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 > > > > > >