[The Rat Squeaks] Most Frequent Blogger Questions

[Ron Southern]

 

My work at Most Frequent Blogger Questions must be done.  It’s finished, I mean.  It’s not the “best of” anything, nor is it Number One for any reason, but I’ve managed to turn loose of it, and that’s a wonderful thing.  It has freed me.  At first I didn’t realize how much so, but now I see that I’ve written a dozen new poems (at least their beginnings) in the past couple of weeks, and that’s a big accomplishment to me.  I sometimes get a sort of Gerard Manley Hopkins sort of feeling like,

“myself it speaks and spells,

Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.”

Hopkins is a far better poet than I am, but he’s also more difficult to read these days!  Maybe three people in the universe will read me, if I’m lucky. 

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Posted By Ron Southern to The Rat Squeaks at 11/23/2009 06:55:00 PM