Thank an invented God for that, as I really like your style.
As far as I remember, Joyce thought himself too clever to rhyme, preferring assonance. Beckett didn't rhyme a lot...reading his poems are a penance for admiring 'Waiting for Godot'.
Steve Smith

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Dear Michele,
I posed the question on Camus as a humorous allusion to existentialism....in which the importance of rhyme would maybe have been darkly appraised...I did not mean to offend..I speak fluent French and am a lover of French Literature and film ..I beg your pardon if my attempt at humour was maladroit. I appreciate your work and am amazed at your ear for tune in the English language.Pardonnez moi.
Steve Smith

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Dear Michele,
Thank you for your comments on my work...I read 'Love in Corca Dhuibhne' and was moved by it -well-crafted too. As a french poetess , could you answer the question "if Camus had written poetry, would it have rhymed?"
Steve Smith

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Absolutely beautiful haunting work Michele. It interweaves so well with the Gaelic music which I love. I remember visiting Ireland many years ago in a folk band on tour, and we never paid for a drink all the time we were there!!..... the Irish so love their music and your poetry has the lilt and flow which this music accompanies so well. just love it.
Cate xx

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Hi Michele: I'd like to hear you READ your work, and the addition of pipes and harp would be a treat.
From David - poet and folkie

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Hi Michelle,
Thanks for reading and commenting on Shhh - glad you liked it.
I do like 'We would be' - it's rather mournful. Look forward to reading more of your work.
Cx

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Michèle, welcome. These are wonderful - they evoke different worlds so vividly and, as Steve says, with such richness. More, please!

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Michel, I think the sense of movement that you manage to sew into your work is a treasure worth keeping. Welcome, Graham.

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Michel, thanks for the prescription, i'll be taking it twice a day from hereonin (which looks a bit too much like heroin for my liking and talking of liking, the Hennessy prize sounds well worth competing for, I hope it was a magnum, sorry that's a big ice-cream..well you know what I mean) Cheers

dave

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