yeah yeah, nothing for you to boast about –
‘100 good ones would be quite enough…
no, make that 20 – who’s got time for more,
even if they were masterpieces…’
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Consider the Ferryman's fee paid in full...well, no, I think keep paying, so I will have something new and lovely, thoughtful or funny to read...and I shall keep trying to pay my own Ferryman, and I am not yet up to 100! !
I don't know if when you started all one thousand of them were planned. How many were flippant responses to ad lib comments, found close at hand. And from my humble knowledge I may not understand but there are few who'll disagree with me that your postings now really are (a) grand. Danny; ¬)
Michael - a thousand poems - a feat indeed. And yet, for me there is only one poem (the one I'm reading right now - wrapped so carefully in its pretty paper) that matters. You combine the conversational, the nonchalant and the contemplative in this beautiful piece straight from that place... Thank you. love, Allie xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx