Comments on: Essay: “A Kind of Gift” by T.S. Davis http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/07/essay-a-kind-of-gift-by-ts-davis/ Poetry for Everyone. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anoth R. Poet http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/07/essay-a-kind-of-gift-by-ts-davis/#comment-827 Anoth R. Poet Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:25:23 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=34#comment-827 This was an inspiring essay to read - I was feeling a little down and stuck with regards to a few poems I'm trying to revise - why is this so difficult, why won't these poems fall together, fall in, like a mass of well-trained soldier-words? T.S. Davis describes the "suffering, mercy, redemption, despair" that a poet-nurse can't take their "eyes off of" - oh yeah, that's why these poems are difficult. It's the emotional content, not just the syllable count! Thanks for the inspiration T.S. Davis, RN, POET This was an inspiring essay to read – I was feeling a little down and stuck with regards to a few poems I’m trying to revise – why is this so difficult, why won’t these poems fall together, fall in, like a mass of well-trained soldier-words?

T.S. Davis describes the “suffering, mercy, redemption, despair” that a poet-nurse can’t take their “eyes off of” – oh yeah, that’s why these poems are difficult. It’s the emotional content, not just the syllable count!

Thanks for the inspiration T.S. Davis, RN, POET

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