Dear Karla,

Break as many pens as you like, if I were closer, you would be handed ten times more to write with ! You amaze me with your versatility... if this is you feeling empty now, keep going, for your emptiness is nothing short of superb. Truly Beautiful Karla.

warm hugs
Elga your friend in South Africa.

This is one for me I can tell. Thank you for writing it so true and bluntly for me the lifeless no talent girl. that didn't want to look like I was feeling sorry for myself! PERFECTION!
Salute!
Love Traceyxo

You may have broken your pen - but this is one heck of a poem.

This is an excellent poem, Karla though it really tugs at the heart.
Take care,
Sherry

Although sad...this is well penned Karla!!

Love Tinka

You should have cruises on prescriptions.
How could we forget your name Fred...

Dear Karla,

This is sad but so very well written
and the concept is brilliant.

Blessings,
Joseph

I should jolly well hope that this is NOT autobiographical - although with your passion and ability to live and breathe through your writes, we might have trouble reconciling that thought with the authenticity that Nordette rightly speaks about here. This is awesomely sharp and cuts to the chase and the quick, Karla! The imaging is like razors! You demonstrate amply here what it means to be able write "in an assumed poetic voice" on the one hand, and yet in my experience we can sometimes use our writing as a thinly veiled disguise of deep, personal feelings as well. It is difficult to know which is which as the writer, let alone the reader, when it is done with such feeling, as here! All I can say is "Phew!!" cos if I thought you truly WERE going to break your pen, I would have to come out in sympathy and break mine too!! Just NEVER do that! You are one poet extraordinaire - and never more so that when you are busy proclaiming that you are not!! Excellent work, thankyou, Kate xx

I really enjoyed this write, Karla....

Hugs, Carole

You will never NOT be lovely...and this proves you can write! ;) silver

Enjoyed the capture of emotion you have done within this write.

I like the focus of your poem, highlighting the umbilical cord between what we feel and are--and what we write. We all want to be read, and remembered, and to count, and that means wearing for garments the secrets of the hidden heart. It is the price our Muse demands.

Yeah, I never know what I'm going to write until I sit down at the keyboard. Every poem I've written on the Den never had a rough draft, and I sometimes wonder where it comes from. Great poem.

Wonderful poem, Karla. Glad you warned it's not autobiographical. Such an authentic ring here. ~~~Nordette

An excellent write Karla keep em coming
God Bless
Michelle!

Brilliant poem that sea voyage did you good Lady Karla!
I know you're dreading work though, aren't you;-)

love,
eileen

AW...this is great! I wish things just 'came' to me that way! I usually mull my stuff over in my head for a few days. Blessings and hugs, Michelle

(((Karla)))

Powerfully emotive write; I hope you don't break your pen!! Keep on writing; your writing talents continue to develop and soar! EXCELLENT job, Karla; BRAVA to a fine effort! Well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin, Karen Lynn. :D

And you were WHO...? Never to worry,
Never to fret,
Your name I will never forget...
Ed & Rufuz

Wow, this is some write, my friend! Filled with emotion that eminates from the page, well done! ~Z~