thanks Gloria for the kind response...hmmm...actually, i don't consider it poetry or myself a poet...i call them creative expressions with me being a spiritual reminder...(first and foremost, 'cause i'm so much in "need" of reminding)...i either write with a title in mind first...otherwise, it's a general theme...sometimes it flows and is done within minutes, with my fingers barely catching up to "my mind"...othertimes, i'm playing with it, with the words, mixing and matching, spending alot more time, attempting to find the balance between the message and it's rythym and rhyme...i used to come alot more from fear and hurt...now, it's more often about setting everyone free by not being the victim that was, is or will be...there's still much to learn, more to go and yet I/We are already there...an interesting paradoxical truth...in this way i guess love is a choice...but a choice to embrace love being love instead of a not yet or an attainment to come...if i had more schooling and worldly experience i could probably be a better writer and have more to offer but i'm not sure how needed that is either since it's really about the simplicity of the moment of Now, of Us Being the Peace that we seek..i'm aware...of our love...of my shortcomings as it were...i'm amazed at how life can be so complex and simple all in the same breath...at how it can seem so big then so small...i'm still as a child as far as being childesh is concerned, instead of Childlike...but then i read Heavenletters or tThe Way Of Mastery or whatever or sit with Nature, or my Breath and then it's not about anything but the perfect purity of this moments allowance...i love writing...almost addicted to it...sometimes it's an escape...often it's God calling me to speak of The Way....'m not all that into chit/chat...unless pertaining to sports or spirituality or sometimes politics or the love of kids or the elderly or animals or nature...but i have my social moments too...and i think that's when i'm living the lessons of the kids and animals and nature...dunno...not sure how much of that makes sense...i'm a inherent defender/protector of those considered not worthy or "less than" though i can be judgmental too of authority figures too...anyway...this, in perhaps different ways, is life in a nutshell for us all...i often feel strange and different as far as the world is concerned but this may be my excuse not to give totally of myself and that there is an "out there" world where i don't fit in...when it's purely perception that makes me feel as if out or in...again...so much to think on and so much to let be...in love...and thanks again...m:)