What are your thoughts, experiences, or desires regarding poetry? What are your thoughts about the stages of life?
I am a rainy day reflective poet. I did more when I was in college and grad school. When my admiration hits a threshold words just come tumbling out.
Singing these songs the past eight months for spring and summer season captured the choral spirit so deftly. Some were actual poems like Wmily Dickinson’s Hope is a Thing with Feathers and Langston Hughes, To Sot and Dream.
When a simple haiku about a monarch butterfly was noticed by my English teacher, I sat up figuratively. Who had known previously that my words could reach someone?
That is marvelous about the play writing. I can’t wait to attend your future work!
Regarding stages of life: I have been waiting for this time of my life since 20 years ago. I just wanted a little more of the wisdom Solomon had. Oh to send it out to the world in writing!
Thank you so much for commenting, and for sharing about your writing and your stages of life. I'd love to see/hear your haiku about the monarch, should you ever feel like sharing and assuming you have it.
Sandra, I so appreciate your Raves Are for the Young poem. I had to take a while to think how to respond about it. I have always been a Dylan Thomas fan. This said, I have watched my appreciation of his poem on aging change as I have aged and stayed with my father as he aged. What was altering my appreciation was that aging. I have since decided that we actually change rather remarkably as we age and little understanding of this can be passed on to the younger population. I am beginning to think we older people are a bit like aliens from another planet..... may actually be living on another planet! LOL In a very real way we are coming from another time zone far far away. If we seem slow, this great distance may account for that.... lets call it warped speed. :) As to no longer needing to rage, even a fire mellows with age and lingers where it might to flare up and remind us of its spirit. I do love your spirit Sandra! Poems and plays with treats sounds grand!
Thank you for commenting, and for sharing your thoughts about aging. We have definitely traveled through time. lol. Today I saw a man wearing a tee shirt that said: Don't Mess with Old People, We Don't Get This Age by Being Stupid. Okay, but that doesn't mean I believe all old people are smart. Some of us get old by sheer luck.
What are your thoughts, experiences, or desires regarding poetry? What are your thoughts about the stages of life?
I am a rainy day reflective poet. I did more when I was in college and grad school. When my admiration hits a threshold words just come tumbling out.
Singing these songs the past eight months for spring and summer season captured the choral spirit so deftly. Some were actual poems like Wmily Dickinson’s Hope is a Thing with Feathers and Langston Hughes, To Sot and Dream.
When a simple haiku about a monarch butterfly was noticed by my English teacher, I sat up figuratively. Who had known previously that my words could reach someone?
That is marvelous about the play writing. I can’t wait to attend your future work!
Regarding stages of life: I have been waiting for this time of my life since 20 years ago. I just wanted a little more of the wisdom Solomon had. Oh to send it out to the world in writing!
Thank you so much for commenting, and for sharing about your writing and your stages of life. I'd love to see/hear your haiku about the monarch, should you ever feel like sharing and assuming you have it.
I think it is in my high school scrapbook. I will try to look for it over the holidays.
Sandra, I so appreciate your Raves Are for the Young poem. I had to take a while to think how to respond about it. I have always been a Dylan Thomas fan. This said, I have watched my appreciation of his poem on aging change as I have aged and stayed with my father as he aged. What was altering my appreciation was that aging. I have since decided that we actually change rather remarkably as we age and little understanding of this can be passed on to the younger population. I am beginning to think we older people are a bit like aliens from another planet..... may actually be living on another planet! LOL In a very real way we are coming from another time zone far far away. If we seem slow, this great distance may account for that.... lets call it warped speed. :) As to no longer needing to rage, even a fire mellows with age and lingers where it might to flare up and remind us of its spirit. I do love your spirit Sandra! Poems and plays with treats sounds grand!
Thank you for commenting, and for sharing your thoughts about aging. We have definitely traveled through time. lol. Today I saw a man wearing a tee shirt that said: Don't Mess with Old People, We Don't Get This Age by Being Stupid. Okay, but that doesn't mean I believe all old people are smart. Some of us get old by sheer luck.
Can I just say, your productivity is amazing!
Thank you!
Body of Evidence sounds good. I love the idea of it. Are the 100 poems for this collection? Women have a lot more they can write about than men.🐰
I think this particular person wants 100 poems for any collection. She usually only publishes novels, so has no idea really, imo.