Title: Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making
Author: John Fox
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(existing’s tricky: but to live is a gift)
the teachable imposture of always
arriving at the place you never left…
– e.e. cummings
When it comes to writing, poetry is my first love. I think it was love-at-first-read when I came across my mother’s old notebook filled with poetry she copied from books and magazines. I never thought of my mother as someone who would love poetry and take the trouble of copying poems in notebooks. But then, there are things we don’t always know about our mothers. And, other people we love for that matter.
Yet when we read someone’s writing, someone’s words, a connection sparks. No wonder many women’s hearts had been won over by a short note, an email, a card, or a poem attempted by an ardent suitor. One of my favourite couples who had exchanged written words and ended up in blissful marriage is Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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