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Indeed, this is quite a: Indeed, this is quite a delicate form and like weaving or sewing with very fine material, quite a daunting task in the least. Your feedback brings me back to the atelier moment where things are in creative flux, a truly humbling portion of the journey of artistic production. Thank you so much.

This is one incalculable: This is one incalculable gift, a condensed handbook, actually, that contains a complete spectrum of success strategies for young writers who hopefully won't have to repeat some of the mistakes I personally made. These valuable tips (that can make the difference between despair and perseverance) aren't limited to nuts and bolts information because, as we now know, it takes more than textbook knowledge to overcome all the roadblocks, trainwrecks and discouragement that buffet any creative individual.   With empathy and reassurance, you gave future poets extremely valuable emotional tools to overcome the self-doubt and inhibitions that are like creative steel traps: they can stop inspiration before it has a chance to even formulate an idea.   If I could whisper in the ear of my younger self I would say all of these things, especially #5-#7, and I would certainly have more poems under my belt. #2 would have prevented the disaster of losing every poem I wrote before 1990 as well as your own personal loss before the days of computers. (Awesome titles, by the way.)   This golden key to literary achievement, especially if shared with young, impressionable minds, could be expounded upon and made into a book. I'm seeing it. But I certainly understand why you want to concentrate on building your poetic palace right here, now.   I'm so glad you gave a shout out to djtj, an example of poetic ingenuity everyone here should read.    My humble gratitude for your enduring support, even in this premium collection of life-altering tips. May it be a treasured guiding light to many.

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Gladly, and thanks to you for: Gladly, and thanks to you for posting your adolescent poems, and for setting an example that I really wished I had seen before 1978.

Thank you so much for your: Thank you so much for your kind comment.  Your words are always important to me.

In my teen years, I wrote: In my teen years, I wrote several poems, also.  I wish they had been as good as yours are here, and I wish I had been as smart as you obviously were then---to save my early poems as you saved yours.  There ought to be a book of advice written for young poets:  save everything . . . discard nothing . . . clip multiple drafts of any poem together . . . invest in folders---many, many folders.  

Patricia is not only a great: Patricia is not only a great Poet, she also has a good eye for poetic talent.  The words of her comment are so well deployed that I have nothing to say to add to it.   So I will also state, quite enthusiastically, that I agree with her assessment of this wonderful poem.