Thanks for the encouragement, @majes.tytyty :)

thank you

It's amazing in a way what gets put into a poem - chestnut vendors - well, it actually happened and seemed part of the ambiance that evoked that moment - what the critics call verisimilitude. The second

you did succeed, my friend :)

Thank you, @majes.tytyty - sometimes I think poetry is a bridge between the world within and the world without

You're very humble, my friend, an excellent quality to possess.

ha ha, I find most of my ghosts are attractive and maybe that's why they are haunting - I like to think that if one is going to persist they shouldn't present as a dreary apparition - it'd be like hanging

An excellent question based upon your insight into the poem, Arthur. You once said I should have more readers - I can't imagine how mere numbers would satisfy my need to be understood when that is accomplished

I agree with you - I have become more tolerant as I have matured - I figured it would be opposite - I figured people became set in their ways as they went on and resistant to change, especially technology

ha ha, very whimsical and witty, Arthur...and true as far as Harry's concerned :)

I have a problem with flagging - never been comfortable with it - I also have a problem with nepotism of any kind - maybe as I often tell people, I should have been a cop - I hate injustice. I suppose

Ah yes, I can see that now - as McLuhan said, when you enter another culture your native culture stands out more clearly, so you are probably less a cosmopolite than a lover of Greek and Cypriot culture.

Thank you!

Yes, I just watched the Anderson Cooper interview with Howard Stern and he would agree with you - the art of conversation has been lost not just in South Africa but to wherever cell phones and earphones

Thank you!

I'm attracted to the sea, but more to be near it than in it or on it . I'm in process of a new novel that will be set near water - a great lake as opposed to an ocean, but same difference to me. I've been

Thanks, Arthur - readership comes down to interacting and you certainly excel in that regard, my friend - always a meaningful comment. It grieves me to see beautiful old houses neglected and yes, some

True, but life is hard to predict. Sometimes what we purpose isn't what we really intend at all but a nostalgic seeking after something elusive we think will fulfill us

Thank you, @justjoy - nice to hear from you

Yes, they're mainly minimalistic - I'd settle for nouns and verbs - hate polysyllabics and prefer anglo saxon mono or disyllabics - will drop articles at times too . I believe prose works on the level