Thanks, Arthur - this fascinates me too. I was taught by the famous Northrop Frye at the U of T who remarked to a student one day in class, "if you can't say it, you don't know it." It made me

Well, as Freud might say, sometimes a coffee is just a coffee, but mostly it's not ;)

Thank you!

writing about it will help - why not try fictionalizing to create some distance , so you can stand back and see things objectively?

Thanks, Alan - he's ten years older - not much, mind you, I'm one to talk :)

ha ha ...you don't find many creatures divorced or homeless ...only humans it seems

a small temple, a faded relief and the ravages of time. We must not despise the day of small things, @slowwalker. It's questionable whether one can take a sacred thing from its proper setting and expect

She can fix anything except me :)

so true...and often our wishes are the smokescreen for our desires

That second one...I'd say the guy's part of Trump's legal team, but I doubt he'd let him in the country - might use his slogan though

Actually, Deb buys me flowers - she's very good with power tools - she'd probably appreciate a new belt sander, lol

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