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Thanks pjj! Indeed there: Thanks pjj! Indeed there appear to be more unwritten poems than those that see the light. Perhaps writing them out allows them to be shared and even possibly be immortalized!

No, I don't, but thanks for: No, I don't, but thanks for asking.

Do you recall this song?: Stockings, they are just sheer stockings Can't forget those stockings Sheer stockings I love   Crying, I cannot stop crying Trying to forget those Sheer stockings I love   Stockings, love those sheer stockings Why'd you ever take them off? They really turn me on   Stockings, miss your sheer stockings I need your stockings  Need them in my life..  

I cannot define your style. : I cannot define your style.  I can applaud it (and I do); I praise it, admire it, envy it at times, study it closely when I read your poems, and I let its verbal power wash over me like a great and refreshing seabreeze.  But I cannot say what exactly it is.  So if you have a name for it, or if it follows a particular pattern or school of verse styles, please tell me.  But . . . more than anything else I might request here . . . please do not change it.

If I had the academic: If I had the academic qualifications to teach Poetry on an undergrad level---I mean, to teach the practical composition of Poetry (rather than simply doing readings of ancient Poets and such)---I would want to use your texts as examples; yours, and the work of one other Poet on this site, as the primary ways a young, aspiring poet should approach the craft.

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a great thing to have: It is a great thing to have grandchildren.  My wife and I parented a blendid family (three children from our previous marriages), and they have now blessed us with seven grandchildren.  But . . . when the two great-grandchildren arrived, just a couple of years ago, we began to feel old.  We thought of ourselves as young grandparents, but "young great grandparents" seems to be a contradiction in terms.