Poetry Talk

Thank you for sharing your work with me.  You have written prose but, I suspect, you have the heart and soul of a poet.  There are some wonderfully, well-written, poetic moments in your story –

“So many moons and earthquakes have gone but still I stroll, now leaving bits of my questions here and there , some above the charcoal rock on which I rested a month ago, some suppressed beneath the algae green mud, maybe one day seeds of daffodils would acknowledge my question and then send one of its stranded child through the cerulean wind with my answers held in its fist.”  (With “tight-fisted” editing, this is pure poetry.) (It would need tightening, but it is poetry!)

In general, I do not respond with editing suggestions to prose as this website is dedicated to poetry.  But, when I suspect a poet is lurking behind the cloak of a story-writer, I feel compelled to encourage them (you) to try and extract that which is most essential, emotional, visual and try your hand at poetry.  I think you might find there is a poem waiting to be discovered in this prose piece.

Thank you again, for sharing with me and do keep on writing, being an artist – you have, I suspect a great deal of talent.

Write on… Susan