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Hi Lyz, thanks. Never done it before, it just kind of popped into my head & wanted to be on the page something like that... felt like a textural write if that makes sense. PS are you an Aus girl too? I'm in country Vic. Are you far, I must check your profile asap Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

I sense you might feel somewhat vindicated by what I have done here?... Well, I am happy to have been of service, even though I have no idea what I have missed I shall have to go searching I see, I assume you wrote a poem & placed the words oddly? Anyway, you made me giggle & smile so I am glad to have pleased you so very much... You are worse than me... go to bed!!!! 5am??!!! Or did you wake early? We are mad, we writers. Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

No map... well, actually it is a map... of history in hindsight. But you get 4 stars for the wit in any case... I didn't intentionally team up with O here, but it seems to have brought him such pleasure I am glad to have obliged & will go look at the poem of the moment as soon as I've finished responding here (one can never do a quick pop in to Neo can one... can you insert plumby accent here, ta) What happened was, I began writing & as I wrote the first line, I knew the sense of the rest of the poem & it needed to be scattered... shaken up, never done it before that I can recall... maybe in my old writing books, probably actually. Anyway, argue away if you like, your arguments are so entertaining! (but I will confess to warming to the softening of critique I have noticed of you recently, we gushing softies might be winning you over from the dark side heh heh! insert evilll cackle as pathetic contrast) Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

Thanks Richard, it just fell out that way. I had never thought to do it, but as I said above, after writing the first line I had to "shake it up" & scatter it (like we have to stand dumbly in the rain sometimes... some things just have to be done... beyond reason!) So lovely to see you here by the way, I want to do a little Moondance! Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

Yes, I used to think that, but finally exposing my writing to the public, made me mellow on that a little, & it isn't a loss I think, it should be an addition to consider how our work might be read. I love the insights I gain & ocassionally they feel right off, like the reader just doesn't get it, but mostly I am shocked at how insightful folk here can be & I get a whole new perspective from considering how a write will land... then finding it lands differently... I think you can't lose, don't you reckon... we can always keep our poemas as we prefer on our own, & here we get to play with them & explore how cjanges might be read? Don't get me wrong I agree, it is after all from our private soul & so much of what I write will NEVER be fully exposed, it isn't about everything being known, it is though, about trying to reach another sometimes, otherwise why post it?... I am only opining too & I completely agree with your point, I just think I have grown by loosening my aproach on it. Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

Hey Lonnie, lovely to see you here too, it's taking me ages to catch up with what everyone has been up to, hope you're going well... Thanks, well, I have fluked it then on my first little meander into wonky word land! Glad it worked for you, just needed to come out that way for me. Cheers Anni~ "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body". ~Elizabeth Stone

Hi dear Gee, not long back from Otter time (holidays here in Oz), missed you guys... & here you are! Well my friend I think I'll leave you with the mystery of this one, a puzzle can be a pleasure I agree, if it makes you happy I am glad... I like to make you happy dear man! Cheers Anni~ "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself". Anais Nin:

Hi Dale, such a pleasure always to find your words on my pages, great that you got the stir fry thing(I love your descriptions), I was hoping for the "shaken up" sense, it was what really mattered. As always you are spot on, this poem (as too many of mine are probably) is written on a number of levels, it pulls from history near & far. I bless you for knowing. Sometimes you are like a gift for me. Cheers Anni~ "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself". Anais Nin:

Hi Steven, thanks, love your words as always, lovely to see you here. Yes life shakes itself up sometimes, bit like this work. I love the picture hanging imagery, fantastic, I guess I did try for that kind of balence without too much symetry, but did not make that connection, you have a great mind. Hope your life is pulling into harmony & some amount of sweetness, look forward to trying to catch up with anything you've written... I have a great deal of catching up thouh, I fear being behind somewhat as a habit sadly, I just have very little time here now & I can't see that changing soon. Thinking of you my friend, warm wishes your way. Cheers Anni~ "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself". Anais Nin: