To know you.

Craig, this is lovely, you'll have your own avalanche of applicants ;) I'm not sure about the 'how to' in the last line, but that's just me, maybe just 'I want to know you, please' or simply repeat 'I want to know you' if you don't mind losing rhyme, alternatively pop a comma in after you and before 'how to please' and it would make more sense for me anyway, hope it's ok to offer this? feel free to ignore, I'll still read you. :) Really did like the poem Craig, consider me wooed ;) lol. much love b x

Hello my friend, nice sentiments here, it seems you've been inspired again. I do hope it is a beautiful unfolding for you both, you are an incredible man, with a a great deal of beauty to offer, your writing has so often moved me beyond expectation in the simplest most incredible ways. As you know (scuse the pun) I believe truly knowing another is what creates & magnetizes true love, so it's a beautiful thing to begin a connection with I feel, it requires really being present to another & takes a great deal of care. I do hope you will let this one know you Craig, I wish it for you because the parts of you I feel I know are so deserving of it. Still, there is always danger discussing the poems content I know & I may be off track if the work is written some time ago or based on a hope or some other element, so forgive me if I have imposed, I feel there is no harm in wishing goodness for you though... There are parts of this work that I would have written dfferently, but feel somehow it is not for me to critique your writing, you introduced me to this place & I am somehow too close to offer changes I might otherwise feel comfortable doing... You can let me know if it's something you would be comfortable with. Take care, I am glad to see you writing again Anni "Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, and even the phrase, "each other" doesn't make any sense."

esp. stanza 2 and this line: "like a child chooses right." I told my partner that if they asked I would marry. Not b/c I thought we'd live happily ever after but for the very reason you outlined in your last stanza-I thought it would grow my capacity for love. Well, death intervened but I knew this person in many of these ways. Thanks for giving words to it. (stanza 3, line 1 - spacing issue?)

Craig, This is such a nice poem..I am going to read some more of your work. Thanks for the lovely complilment too...on Honey of the Soul. You work in vineyards I take it??