Life far away yet close

Thank you all of you, select few, and yes Hugo I am a little old fashioned my father was born in 1898, and the Victorian atmosphere only just rubbing off the manners and expressions, but I hope I am not so 'old hat' that the sentiments can be expressed in today's poetry with the borrowings of their powerfully moving kind of rhetoric, it gives a poem a kind of authenticity- or poetry- for me to be swayed away into their realms of fantasy using words that have that certain je-ne-sais-quoi ! And no, take heart Hugo, I don't think you were saying, or doing what I have read into your comment, as in any way negative, all your comment was positive, but I do admit to being, slightly anyway, from another age, another era of writing. Long live those ancient bards who could phrase a language with such beauty and panache that we still can enjoy their works. NOT IN ANY way hereby comparing my little old self with any of those erudite magicians of language, no oh no. I do my thing in my own way largely self taught in the areas that have inspired and interested me, not what 'they' say we SHOULD read and SHOULD understand, but what I find I can understand and relate to, after all why live at all if one has to learn things of little or no interest to oneself? This life is too short to sit for hours and hours studying something we know we shall NEVER have any use for whatever. I hated school and would have liked, I said so at 8 yrs. , to be an apprentice to some handcraft and THROUGH that learn History, maths, etc. instead of going to that institution and be belittled by the teachers and the other children NO; I didn't enjoy school, except for the few individual teachers who were in love with their subject and could enthuse me likewise. There you are that's what you've got out of me now!!!!Nt that you're interested! Love to all, I love you all for your positive attitudes to each other, long may it be so. Ann P.S. From a letter to Longo apropos education:-Then you're exactly like my Aunt Jean who read books at lightening speed, but 'they' say the brain can do so if one trains it to, the capacity for such speed is there, we tend not to use it, stupid, why don't they teach such in school, how to use this magically superior computer of the human mind and brain properly, they concentrate on all the old ideas and must soon update the whole concept of education don't you think? His answer was "Absolutely!"

I thank you very much for your words. You just keep going, you have much in you I can tell by your poems, having just been there and tried to comment on them in my own unprofessional way. Yours also respectfully Ann