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To Be a Part of Something
It’s nice to be a part of a website/group and share my poetry with others, even do this website is over in England and I live here in Ireland but I feel that I got to know some people through this website by reading their work. It have been good for me to be a part of it ‘coz my writing has come a long way and it have improve so much too. Since my poetry got published on this website back in January 2006 and had more published after that, it made me work harder on my writing. Summer of 1992, I wrote my first poem called “The Snow Man” and kept on writing but never worked as hard, I waiting for 13 years to get published and since I get published of this year, I have worked really hard on my writing ‘coz I have proving to myself and to others that I can write a poem, story or a book as good as anybody.
It’s nice to be a part of a website/group and share my poetry with others, even do this website is over in England and I live here in Ireland but I feel that I got to know some people through this website by reading their work. It have been good for me to be a part of it ‘coz my writing has come a long way and it have improve so much too. Since my poetry got published on this website back in January 2006 and had more published after that, it made me work harder on my writing. Summer of 1992, I wrote my first poem called “The Snow Man” and kept on writing but never worked as hard, I waiting for 13 years to get published and since I get published of this year, I have worked really hard on my writing ‘coz I have proving to myself and to others that I can write a poem, story or a book as good as anybody.
Posted by: Jon Fletcher
20 July 16:08 pm
I've not been able to put anything on here for a bit - bad times and all that but it is so great to come back to this site and everyone. It's a comfortable site if you know what I mean?
I've not been able to put anything on here for a bit - bad times and all that but it is so great to come back to this site and everyone. It's a comfortable site if you know what I mean?
Posted by: Paul Martin Chafer
19 July 13:09 pm
Dear Shirley,
I so enjoy reading your work. To read your poems is to know you as you give so much of yourself: such a personal style of writing is to be commended. It is the digging deep and then creating poetic beauty with your inner self that gives your poetry a sincerity and special quality. Please don't ever consider stopping writing. I know it can be difficult at times, but anything worthwhile usually is hard and the learning curve of poetry never ceases: not for any of us.
Best wishes,
Paul.
Dear Shirley,
I so enjoy reading your work. To read your poems is to know you as you give so much of yourself: such a personal style of writing is to be commended. It is the digging deep and then creating poetic beauty with your inner self that gives your poetry a sincerity and special quality. Please don't ever consider stopping writing. I know it can be difficult at times, but anything worthwhile usually is hard and the learning curve of poetry never ceases: not for any of us.
Best wishes,
Paul.
Posted by: Dr. Todd harris
12 July 00:10 am
I have written comments about your published poems because I want to encourage you to keep writing - I think you have a gift that comes from the purity of being a sojourner of simple harvests. As I said before in comments I wrote about another of your poems, your words send that abstraction of soulfulness common to all good writing, uncomplicated by flowery phrases. Your writing has transported honest repose in the face of true loss, as well as a sense of innate understanding of unlearned human partnership. Your poems have come to paint little literary portraits of you, your love of nature, and your caring for other persons. Your green fingers have certainly walked a long way from that late night lawn of tomorrow. Your touching of a plant reminded me of Chopin's two Piano concertos -(you should give them an honest listen if you have not heard them before - they are an inspiration on a quiet, rainy afternoon.)
I was intrigued by your living in Ireland - I have family from there, as well as from England, and also Russia (my wife is a Russian concert pianist).
Today I gazed east out the panes of my mind's eye and imagined your looking thru your window, a flickering candle nearby, intent on the Irish countryside, penning the words for your next poem.
You know, if you look far enough to the West, you might see California. (If that doesn't work, well -there is always the Discovery Channel, if you can get it...).
PS - The web is its own world, and for writers, knows no boundaries. As a fellow writer, I am glad you have chosen to become a part of it, and I welcome you to the other side of the pond.
Dr. Todd
I have written comments about your published poems because I want to encourage you to keep writing - I think you have a gift that comes from the purity of being a sojourner of simple harvests. As I said before in comments I wrote about another of your poems, your words send that abstraction of soulfulness common to all good writing, uncomplicated by flowery phrases. Your writing has transported honest repose in the face of true loss, as well as a sense of innate understanding of unlearned human partnership. Your poems have come to paint little literary portraits of you, your love of nature, and your caring for other persons. Your green fingers have certainly walked a long way from that late night lawn of tomorrow. Your touching of a plant reminded me of Chopin's two Piano concertos -(you should give them an honest listen if you have not heard them before - they are an inspiration on a quiet, rainy afternoon.)
I was intrigued by your living in Ireland - I have family from there, as well as from England, and also Russia (my wife is a Russian concert pianist).
Today I gazed east out the panes of my mind's eye and imagined your looking thru your window, a flickering candle nearby, intent on the Irish countryside, penning the words for your next poem.
You know, if you look far enough to the West, you might see California. (If that doesn't work, well -there is always the Discovery Channel, if you can get it...).
PS - The web is its own world, and for writers, knows no boundaries. As a fellow writer, I am glad you have chosen to become a part of it, and I welcome you to the other side of the pond.
Dr. Todd
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