Tinsel Town

Thank you so very much for sharing your thoughts. I'm smiling, and so pleased, that you got all that from it. Modern death, literal or not, portrayed in black and white is exactly what I was aiming for.

Very dear friends beg me to use punctuation. I love their work, and respect their opinions because of the quality poetry they createm but, I won't use punctuation. Long ago, a very, dear and trusted man who was brutally honest with me about my work told me that poetry was a dance between the reader and the writer. He told me to challenge the reader, to let them dance with me, be my partner.

Another trusted man who was also a gifted writer told me that with all the value of workshops, (he runs them and does so better than anyone I know), we as writers had to realize there was a point that the work had to stand on its own. He put it to me this way: "If two people are discussing your work in Sweden over a rich cup of coffee in an open cafe', how are you ever going to explain to them that that was not what you meant at all? You won't even know that they are talking about your words."

Again, thank you so very, very much. I've drifted away, quite a distance from writing, and this conversation has both made me smile and brought me back.

Oh, , have I answered what you asked me, or did I just ramble on?