'A Curiously British Situation' is a very good poem. Declan McHenry is an entertaining read.
A whisper will still be a whisper? if this blows my hopes...? or a kiss will still be a kiss? if this kills me in a instant..?
After reading your poem.... Yet still you seek a muse knowing that loving will drain your creative energy... why only one poem here - are you in love and therefore not writing?
A sad poem but expressing a certain stand- off objectivity about yourself and your feelings. Very well expressed, beautifully written. Alas-Carthage! Regards, Margery R Where have all your other poems gone?