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I agree, a thousand: I agree, a thousand percent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you for the kind: thank you for the kind words.  May we all live long enough to find beauty, truth, love and joy in our lives.

You have great skill for: You have great skill for depicting intense emotion in very convincing words and phrases.  The first ten lines reminded me of the summer I spent with my First Beloved---a very pleasant set of memories.  Your poem is very effective, and the last four lines deliver a real gut-wrench to the reader.

Each day one gets up of a: Each day one gets up of a morning is a day closer to Eternity. Perhaps it could be seen and engaged as a countdown. Our past history is marked by the Cross and the future history that has not as yet rolled by is marked by Resurrection until the Day. As a poet though, it's probably a narrowing possibility of cranking out second wind verses, or something of that sort.

This poem is very profound.: This poem is very profound.

And thank you for that reply.: And thank you for that reply.

In my opinion, your prose: In my opinion, your prose statement---this one right here, right now---is the best summary introduction to Poetry that I have ever read, and it is far superior to academic or scholary treatments of Poetry and the reason for reading them.  These words of yours should be handed out to every student who takes a Poetry course.  I attended a Poetry class during my senior undergrad year:  it was given only one every three years, and admission to it was by invitation/recommendation only.  And, after the first couple of days, I realized that it looked far better in the course catalogue than it really was.  The course omitted all literary history, and all of the classic "great" Poets---and concentrated on contemporary (1970's) poetry in a book which contained a good many of the instructor's favorites or actual acquaintances.  For a course that most of the seniors had waited their entire four years to take, it was a crushing disappointment; and I not only said so in my course evaluation, I actually signed the evaluation after giving it the most ruthless response of which I was then capable.  But this Haibun you have written would have made the entire course, back in 1980, laughably superfluous and totaly unneccesary. But, going forward, I hope some way can be found to get this to young Poets just starting out, or students of Poetry before they are subjected to professors who are so stale they are better qualified to be mummies than teachers.   I have commented on your Poetry before; but this particular Haibun, and the Senryu it precedes, are among the most brilliant that I have ever read, on postpoems or elsewhere.  You should be very, very, very proud of this piece, and I am grateful that despite my affliction, I have lived long enough to read this splendid Haibun and to offer my grateful response in a comment.