Parents' Listserver
I've been sitting on this one for months, unhappy with it without being sure why. Too sentimental? Too lightweight? Help me figure it out! Or help me kill it if I ought to.At some point, I should...
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MaryAnn -I'm not sure if I'm following this one properly. As a parent whose first baby bird just left the nest last August to go very far away to college - it peaks my interest, but it is not...
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Hi Maryann,Like February, I empathise with the sentiment. My older two headed off to university last Autumn; the house still feels strangely empty.Is it because the poem is heartfelt and speaks so...
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It's not too sentimental at all. You've avoided that by sticking to specific details that show us, rather than tell us, how you feel. In fact, it may actually be a little too understated. As I read...
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Many thanks, Feb, Alan, Ivana.It helps to know that I need to make things clearer. I may need more space to do that, and having, say, another stanza will make it easier to use an unchanged stanza...
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Hi -I like this, or at least I like where it's heading, as I'm sure you're going to refine it. I agree that having set up the stanza form, you should stick to it throughout, so the penultimate one...
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