After some personal growing I am rather open to sharing my poems. If people want to read then they are welcome to do so. Critique on them is easy to take if it is constructive. If people trash them just to make fun of me. Well that hits a little closer to home. My family goes nuts when I publish something and sometimes that makes me crumble. Maybe they think I am going to rattle some family skeletons.

@Adam Gary Interesting thoughts......

To learn how everything works and is built is all well and good. But a star isn't less beautiful cause I don't know it's name or number. The moon walks with me in full even if I can't see it. But a red full moon touches my soul everytime my eyes take a glanze at it. Science doesn't make spirituality less important or vice versa. They are the opposite sides of the coin. Together yet apart. As a poet it just happens to be easier to see the spiritual side of the coin. But who knows I might be fliping it someday. I think we all at some point in time has been in a place where we wanted to sneak out the side door. I am just so polite that I escape inside my heart instead. Like the light is on but no one is in the office so to speak.

@Sunayana Dash spot one but since it's coming from you I wasn't surprised.

Ohhh my you got my head spinning with this one. I will be back when it stops :))

Seeking the star that shoots. When my time has come.

Holy shit this knock my head off!

@Sunayana Dash gosh I hope you realize that you have all those colours inside of you. Your wings are growing and they will show us all the colours you have. But most importantly your words will create so many more.

The place I write the most is in my favorite corner of the sofa. Or somewhere outside where it is a beautiful view. If I get enough inspiration I can block out anything and be in my bubble in a crowd. Photo from a park in London I visited sometime ago.

Not sure the panicked poet seeks my personal advice but he will get it anyway. Guess he knows me by know..... You did the best you could at that moment in life be proud of that and move on. Keep the books in publication as long as there are interest in reading them. For myself I have learnt from those books and enjoy bits and pieces of every one. We all grow why are we else here for. The books stand for so much more than just the words in them. You need to remember that. You have a lot to be proud of your books being a part of that. You can and should not compare the past to the present and even less the past with the future. As the saying goes there is a reason why the front window is bigger than the review mirror. And thats because you are not heading backwards. Keep doing you as only you can. As for forgetting they ever existed. Hmmmmm do you forget memories that helped you grow??? Your best version is yet to come so is your best book!!

Love, the moon, nature and grief are things that often appear in my poems. On the other hand I don't think there is anything I wouldn't write about if I got inspired or felt that I had to get it off my chest. I like to write poems about people sometimes I let them know sometimes I leave them guessing. I read energies so often I see people in the shape of the energy they give out. And that can turn into poems to.

Since I am Swedish there will be names you never heard of. Björn Ranelid because the way he uses the language in his different work. Karin Boye, Gustaf Fröding. Shakespeare, Jane Austen and a handfull of persons in the cove. With eyes open I can learn things from anything I read. So I guess the answer to your question is that I can't narrow it down to just poets and poems sorry.

@nicki somewhere earlier in this tread Adam said he would start selecting in the week to come so please join. I had the same crisis as you. If that helps😊

@Adam Gary thanks for liking it. There are only 150 pages in my computer that you haven't seen😉

Can a woman change her mind? The worlds most retorical question.With some help from Adam Gary and Emilio Puerta this poem is now finally done. So if you want to read it on Youtube Adam I would be happy.

@Tanya Howell of course they are. You write lovely things every day. Please share your poetry I would love to read it❤🙏❤

@Rachel Glass Thanks I like this promt exercises often some really good lines comes out of them. That gives me things to work with some more.

In the small hours When the world slows down The ready souls goes silent Drifting off to their next dimension A journey comes to a partial end The clear dark sky creates a masterpiece The gallery of moments is open I stand in awe for the brightness Staying awake a little longer In the silence I hear the sounds You breathing next to me I know you too are awake In the early hours we don't speak We honour the travelling souls Watch another star go

@Del Girl Then I must say I have seen you dabble some great stuff. You are a good writer. And I enjoy reading your poetry.

I would say that I sit and stare 50% of the time. But the staring is part of the process. What I stare at is different depending on my mood. But a night sky with stars and a full moon. Or free flowing water is two major favorites.