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I enjoyed this you nailed: I enjoyed this you nailed it.in more ways than one. Strong writing, not overtly descriptive but vernacular oozing through the constant struggle for atonement peace and connection... etc... I very nice garden to get lost in. Hugss ss 

As I said sadness and loss: As I said sadness and loss the enigma that is tragedy... so concisely yet almost as perfunctorily as breathing it resonates in inner knowing.

Thank you for posting that. : Thank you for posting that.  I can think of one person to whom I would love to send a copy.

Thank you so very much for: Thank you so very much for those kind words, and sharing a part of your history with me.  I am very grateful for your comment.  Although the numbers say 50 and 22 years, respectively, sometimes the time feels like it was just yesterday.

I just revisited these, and I: I just revisited these, and I sure would like to see more, many more, of them!!!

Superbly delicious to retrace: Superbly delicious to retrace our steps in poetry. For my part I venture to say that my parents' permitting poetry to be part of our daily yhousehold routine, most of which (age appropriately) would be nursery rhymes and poetic tales. From soaking all that in and moving to a more active interphase with poetry began when i was 4 and had to memorise "Cat" by Mary Britton Miller, complete with gesturing and interpretative movement. If pushed I most possibly could recite this poem from memory, lol. And since that time 'yawning of cats' has been a permanently etched image in my psyche.   Starlite didn't have much of an impact on my poetic activity. And as you have explained quite tellingly was not a very promising choice of a venue and environment in which poetry could be lived in or grown from. The aspect of PostPoems that you mention was the main reason for the overly long extended hiatus that I found myself in. But that is the way, isn't it. Allow us to celebrate with you on 50 years of poetry and 22 years on PostPoems!

Thank you for the comment. : Thank you for the comment.  What I noticed most about the original Scofield was his virulent anti-semitism, as well as an implied disrespect to the earliest Christians who were, like Jesus, Hebrews.  Scofield also seemed to think that only Paul's epistles were of theological value to the Church; he even relegated the four Gospels to "Jewish writings."  The second edition (which is the one I purchased new in 1976, and just received again, used, this week) was published in 1967.  The second edition removed Scofield's prejudices altogether, and dispensed with his ideas about how to "rightly divide" the New Testament---which is, properly, one unit. Thanks again for the comment.