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The great Poet, J. V.: The great Poet, J. V. Cunningham, once described having to sneak up on a poem as if it were a watch dog to whom you offer a juicy steak as a bribe.  Perhaps you should consider an opposite strategy:  let the Cosmos sneak up on you and deliver a poem to your doorstep when the time is right.  But keep looking for it; your enthusiastic patience will make the process go faster.

I hope I am not trespassing: I hope I am not trespassing by offering this comment.  Now seems to be a time of new beginnings; or, a continuation of your original writing, but in a different venue, with a different emphasis.  The whole Cosmos is open before you, and you need only select a subject.  The words may not flow at once because the well (to borrow a metaphor from Mark Twain) may need priming, but it will eventually begin to fill, and then you will be able to draw from it.  I am reminded of a young lady, nineteen years old, who was vacationing with four friends in Geneva, Switzerland.  They had been reading ghost stories for entertainment (no such thing as television back then), and decided to have a ghost story contest, who could write the scariest.  Everyone but the nineteen year old girl started rapidly; she experienced a most frustrating writers block.  Finally, on either the night of, or the night before June 16th, 1816, she had a nightmare that kept her awake the rest of the night and gave her the idea for a short story.  At her boyfriend's urging, she expanded it to a novel, which was published in 1818.  Her name was Mary Shelley, and that first novel of hers, Frankenstein, has never been out of print.

There are far too many people: There are far too many people like this out and about in the world.  We have to be cautious and wary . . . .

Well, I should like to think: Well, I should like to think that your work has been waiting patiently for you to resume when the situation improved.  I wish you the best in your endeavors.  In my own case, which I do not presume to dare to compare to yours, I wanted to write Poetry since October 13th of 1975, and the first real poem did not arrive until sometime in the summer of 1994; nineteen years of wait time.  I am an old man now, with a lot of medical afflictions, but the poems keep coming---for which I thank the Lord most humbly.

Yes it is.  I have been a: Yes it is.  I have been a member for over twenty years.  I have seen a lot of changes here, mostly positive.  There are some very fine Poets, and a few (but they are a few too many)  poserus who think they are Poets and are not.  I love this site, and I am very grateful to Jason for providing it to us. I am grateful for your reply as well.

Thank you so very much.  I: Thank you so very much.  I take that as quite a compliment, indeed, and I am very grateful for your comment and for your visit to the poem.