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Jeannine's avatar

I love how your poetry seems to be centered on nature. The words have an organic feel to them, if that makes any sense. And that boom cover is beautiful, with the small moons and tiny stars shining in the black expanse...

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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

Thank you! And thank you! So far the response to the cover has been generally positive, so I am minded to stick with it (with possibly a few minor adjustments like font size).

Yes, I do love nature. And it does make sense when you use the word organic - it's partly because I just sort of channel the words and let it all flow out. As opposed to what some people do which is 'craft' a poem, in the sense of sitting down and spending hours trying to work out which words to use and where. I'm not against that sort of writing per se, it's not just my style.

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Johnathan Reid's avatar

Seventeen [Camus] works better for me in exposing deeper meaning.

Sixteen [Baudelaire] rang some bells with regard to The Cure's 'Pictures of You'. Can't knock some Mr Smith genius inspiration.

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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

Lol. You're probably right, now I come to think of it there's a lot of Cure-ishness in these two eh! Nice catch.

Once a Curehead, always a Curehead.

Interestingly I once read a piece some decades ago about how 'Goths mate for life'. Well, not in my case they don't/didn't.

The other one I'm definitely in agreement with though is that in every small town/village in England you'll see a war memorial and there will be a pair of goths sitting on it. That one's definitely true.

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Johnathan Reid's avatar

Head not cured yet. Not like a ham, anyway.

Two's company, three's a crowd – unless they're buying a round or a record.

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