For the working poet...

Your daughter has expressed well the need that confronts most poets and writers. Many of what I consider my better poems may exist today only because I succumbed to the need to record the ideas or images that occupied my thoughts least they escaped to one those forgotten recesses of memory.

Great poem. Sometimes it is right to be late

Great poem.

Dear Donna,
"dreams fidgety, a day's worth of stories." It's amazing what children experience in the waking hours. And at night, the stories that they've experienced, quarrels that they've solved or have remain unsolved in their little world tend to be unfolded again, sometimes as nightmares. Isn't it a delight to see your child smiling in his or her sleep and chuckling with laughter at times?
I wish more kids would write poetry or stories or discover poetry rather than trying to knock down fantasy figures, shipy, jets, spaceships in their game-boys, computersand laptops. I was with a group of German children in a mediotheke, where they were allowed to try out pre-installed software, but before we started I asked them to write down their names, addresses, hobbies. They were good at going up, down and sideways with the cursor (arrows) but they couldn't find the alphabets to spell their names. All play does make Hans a dumb boy, I thought.

I'm so glad and relieved that your daughter writes poems. Motivate her, encourage her and give her all the love she deserves. I wish you a wonderful mother-daughter relationship full of respect and love for each other. In diesem Sinne,
bye.
Satis

Thank you Satis...she is MY muse....my best friend...and everything I would ever want her to be....I agree with your comment about kids and poetry...its sad that in so many schools systems the first program to be cut is always the arts....I have often wondered why it is not offered in the lower elementary grades when their little minds are so hungry to learn and express themselves...