WOW! I am quite impressed with your poetry! The form is elegant and spare, but the layers of image and oblique wonder are wonderful (is that redundant?)! Creative writing, as in the other arts, is not intended to answer questions, but to ask them, to make the reader imagine, ponder, and regurgitate his/her own ideas and beliefs. Your work gains much of its power and impact, not by what you tell us, but what you allow us to achieve on our own. Art is less about telling us what we need to know and where we need to go, but about honoring our own need to supply our own unique directions. Hmmmmm, sounds as if I'm back to the caterpillar again. Bob
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WOW! I am quite impressed with your poetry! The form is elegant and spare, but the layers of image and oblique wonder are wonderful (is that redundant?)!
Creative writing, as in the other arts, is not intended to answer questions, but to ask them, to make the reader imagine, ponder, and regurgitate his/her own ideas and beliefs. Your work gains much of its power and impact, not by what you tell us, but what you allow us to achieve on our own.
Art is less about telling us what we need to know and where we need to go, but about honoring our own need to supply our own unique directions. Hmmmmm, sounds as if I'm back to the caterpillar again. Bob
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