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Thank you for the: Thank you for the encouragement and the validation.  I do have in mind several Biblical figures in mind to whom I would like to give voice.  (In Hebrew legend, Adam and Eve's son, Seth, was said to have been highly interested in astronomy---that would provide a great subject.)  Years and years ago, a certain Biblical scholar (who I cannot cite, now, because I have forgotten the name) wrote that Mark's Gospel is highly interested in minor characters, and that the whole account is given from the perspective of a minor character.  And that has always fascinated me about Mark (the evangelist as well as the text itself), and has been a challenge that I have postponed.  Your words remind me that I am not nearly done with the things I have to complete.  Thank you for that; thank you very much.

Trust, you won't have issues: Trust, you won't have issues with traffic in a month or 2, when people realize iam, in effect Jesus's only desciple, they will be all over my work like a rash. 2-400 views will be a drop in the ocean and you should get strong advertising revenues as a resuly

Thank you for understanding: Thank you for understanding this poem.  Because it came to me while listening to some Orthodox Liturgical music and chant, I cannot say, honestly, that I wrote it, but, more accurately, I just transcribed as it came to me.  I pray that it may be the beginning of a sequence, and a style for that sequence, because this would fulfill an ambition I have had since early 1976, but never had the full resources to fulfill.  I know I am putting it in a very clumsy statement. but I know your powers of discernment will fill in whatever I lack in expression.  Thanks again for the comment.

Wanting vs Working For What Is Wanted: . Courtships through the ages, start reading and ask questions of family and your friends, their friends, anybody's friends. With girls, it usually starts with hello. Watch movie, Bennie And June. It helped me lots. (love me some Johnnie  Depp). . Merry Christmas! You must make it merry Yeah--living is hard work. And scary for a lotta folks. Suck it up and go find the happy. I watch commedians - stand up comedy to sharpen the sense of funny.. I worked in community mental health for 6.5 years. "Go out there and get busy." I use to tell my guests from my front desk. That'spart of it, very very hard from a I Never Promised You A Rosegarden Life. And yes, I will never understand. . Lady A .

A thundering tumble of words: A thundering tumble of words that addresses the thief and puts us, with rapt attention, into his head, his pain, his redemption. Even through a veil of agony and crushing darkness and impending terrors (described with striking detail), there's a feeling of privilege to be so close to the the One who is "God and Man" and indescribable comfort in His promise of "Paradise in His company".   That in itself is inspiring but you took it to the next level with his realization that a simple act of faith changed everything: all that was stolen was repaid " thousandsfold by thousandsfold". The light that pours through those lines is, absolutely, "a glowing of two sides". What a profoundly relevant message to us all!    The ebb and flow of your riveting verse adds power and emotion and . . . Life to the words, lifting it from the realm of language into the stratosphere of the sacred.    A great achievement for you as a poet. A triumph for all who receive this message.