Are You Reading Me

ARE YOU READING ME "I'm only as good a poet as the poet I read before me" Indiana Shaw . . . : /

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Tom Cunningham

Date: 9/8/2021 2:31:00 AM

So true Indiana, I read more than I compose as long as time allows. Tom

Indiana Shaw
Date: 9/8/2021 4:55:00 AM

With the classic's you write, Tom, you take your time, a lot of thought goes into you poems, and your poems are worth waiting for, I am very sure that goes for all of us on here, quality counts, and your limericks are to die for . . . : )

Gary Radice

Date: 9/8/2021 12:10:00 AM

Ok, this is profound.. :) I'm almost certainly missing something here :) .. Taking your poem at face value I guess you may possibly be more enriched (depending on what you have read) but I would argue that you, Indiana, are - and will always be - your own poet with your own wonderful style...or are you referring to comments received? See what you've done. My brain is happily in knots. :) Cheers - Gary

Gary Radice
Date: 9/9/2021 1:45:00 AM

Indiana Shaw
Date: 9/8/2021 1:14:00 AM

Hi Gary, it's a metaphor in a sense, poets can inspire me, or rile me, happily most inspire me, go undo those knots . . . : )