This is such great writing Jane as always. I totally get being overwhelmed with the need to write a poem, for me it’s to sort out the confusion in my head and express the unexplainable ‘thing’. I’m never really sure I manage it but I’m usually satisfied by expressing something vaguely resembling the ‘thing’.
I’m still feeling giddy about your brilliant workshop and getting to meet you in person. Thank you again for the gorgeous hug-mark ❤️🤗🤗
Awww I hope the hug-mark is giving your reading time lots of added soft snuggles. It was so lovely to meet you too. Poetry is the best - how many poems have I written to help myself make sense of something? Too many to count! And 80% of them never see the light of day through publication - but that doesn't matter - what matters is how they help us go on xxx
a third through reading this; I had to stop to let words out; when words are, they happen and trying to deny them or pretend they can be postponed just leads to a painful twisting of inner canals? tendrils? tendons? words are lost but in their loss they can tear tender juices rupture leave scars of aching silence and I've just realised that this reply is another part of the halting voice that has been silenced for a month but enough, I've an incoherent draft now perhaps I can go back to reading *your* words again now x
… and all read now, wondering if I would've found the courage to let my voice speak if I'd read your musings about workshopping first? To expose raw vulnerability even unshared? Thank you; your writing is always of value for me. Even (espdcially?) when it lifts inner terrors to my surface x
Thank you, Jane. Another interesting and useful essay. Writing helps bring meaning to my life. Your work seems very adventurous. Lovely stuff. X
Thank you! I love the adventures that can be found in writing :-) xxx
This is such great writing Jane as always. I totally get being overwhelmed with the need to write a poem, for me it’s to sort out the confusion in my head and express the unexplainable ‘thing’. I’m never really sure I manage it but I’m usually satisfied by expressing something vaguely resembling the ‘thing’.
I’m still feeling giddy about your brilliant workshop and getting to meet you in person. Thank you again for the gorgeous hug-mark ❤️🤗🤗
Awww I hope the hug-mark is giving your reading time lots of added soft snuggles. It was so lovely to meet you too. Poetry is the best - how many poems have I written to help myself make sense of something? Too many to count! And 80% of them never see the light of day through publication - but that doesn't matter - what matters is how they help us go on xxx
a third through reading this; I had to stop to let words out; when words are, they happen and trying to deny them or pretend they can be postponed just leads to a painful twisting of inner canals? tendrils? tendons? words are lost but in their loss they can tear tender juices rupture leave scars of aching silence and I've just realised that this reply is another part of the halting voice that has been silenced for a month but enough, I've an incoherent draft now perhaps I can go back to reading *your* words again now x
… and all read now, wondering if I would've found the courage to let my voice speak if I'd read your musings about workshopping first? To expose raw vulnerability even unshared? Thank you; your writing is always of value for me. Even (espdcially?) when it lifts inner terrors to my surface x