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I am smacked with gob.
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You and me both, Paul.
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She writes well, but presents it excellently. Maybe you want to write in her style, but damn us for not seeing the excellence in our own words. And you ARE an excellent writer, me not so much. There is a quiet strength and depth to your poems, where Andrea's are flaring with emotion, which she fires through the mic and the audience is carried away with her strong emotions.
Your poems, to me, paint detailed images and points to ponder, that last longer than a quick emotional flare. Better maybe not, but more my preferred style. Not to take anything away from her poetry at all.
Thanks for the introduction to her poetry.
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Buddy, I think if I read "I do" I would find it as moving as I do when I hear Andrea declaiming it.
I don't want to write in her style - in fact the first thing I do when I find an excellent poet is be very sparing about what I read of his or her work. I don't want my own writing to be influenced - I want to write like me - I just want to write as brilliantly as that. (I knew someone many years ago, a jazz pianist, who did the same; he deliberately avoided listening to any jazz piano recordings for several years).
I'm afraid I have sent her a gushing piece of fan mail, and added a link to her web site on mine. She will probably wonder who this mad wee Scottish wifey is. I think I am too old, too timid to speak for (the broad and diverse spectrum of) women like her and me. My own love poetry (such as my lists "The Celestine Canon" and "Special Poems" - the latter being broader than love poetry) is more personal, more introspective, and although it is very clearly written by a woman for other women, it is somehow more mainstream, less challenging. Maybe that's how it ought to be, when it comes from my pen. I don't know.
Many thanks for the kind words. I wasn't fishing.
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You and I are not the fishing type, I didn't see it as that.
Don't know your age, but I am north of 60. My children have heard me say I will be old the day before I die, until that day I am only aging. I gave up timidity quite sometime ago, found it got me no where. So, I am now out spoken, heading toward being an eccentric cuss. Eccentric is attached to us when a certain number of gray hairs take up residence. LOL
I am not a lettered person and read a few literary works sparingly, not much time allowed in a 55 to 70 hour work week. I find it flattering, but sometimes slightly offensive when a comment mentions that I write just like famed poet X. NO, I don't, I write like me. It is a motion of time and fate that make our styles similar... maybe I am too touchy, but ehh.
I simply enjoy your words and style. I am also appreciative of your sharing other great poets. Thank you.
More could be said, but I fear I ramble.
All the best always,
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Och, a ramble diz us a' guid, frae time tae time.
Here's a poem about growing old disgracefully. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ruth.livingstone/parlour/warning.htm
PS I'm 52.
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Get behind the mic, stand on a stage, learn what sounds make your words add your heart and soul leave out your mind then make it mean something as you could do it if you wanted to and some
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Jem, my family don't call me "little voice" for nothing - and it's not because I can sing like Jane Horrocks!
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well, don't sit there in envy, get out there and start slammin'... lol
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I could get out there, I could stand up, but I couldn't write like that!
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no- everyone has their idiosyncracies... (me? I'd be a comic) and besides, the guys just watch your hips anyway...
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Guys who watch my hips need to get fitted with a white stick, Wayne. Actually, having said that, they probably are my best feature.
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the advantages of being nearsighted...
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http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=GoWNnt4Fdh4&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=B0058FB7718058A0&index=28
God, this is beautiful.
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There are tears running down my face - this is so wonderful.
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I am going to have to stop watching this woman. The more I hear the more I am convinced I can't write poetry for sh*t. She is too damn good.
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She would probably say the same thing after reading your poems, Mairi.
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That I doubt very much.
Anyhow, I have emailed her my appreciation and linked her on my web site so you never know - she may visit and read a couple of mine (oh God I hope not - quick, let me tear my site down!).
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