tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7720628347769075290.post5658745474962907183..comments2023-11-28T15:06:05.031+11:00Comments on Offerings from the Wellspring: On Poetry IITherese Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13377141096944060498noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7720628347769075290.post-51576253253843031972017-07-20T09:49:55.279+10:002017-07-20T09:49:55.279+10:00Thank you so much for saying that, Sarah. It's...Thank you so much for saying that, Sarah. It's all the more difficult when I haven't, and may never be, published, so I wonder, am I 'legit'? Am I really a writer? But writing is what I can do, and I'm not so bad at it, I think, so I will keep on doing it (of course keeping in mind that it is not all I am). And next time someone asks me what I do (my most hated question!), I will remember to say, 'I poeticise'. x Therese Dohertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13377141096944060498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7720628347769075290.post-57257981477723008682017-07-20T07:51:38.520+10:002017-07-20T07:51:38.520+10:00I love what you have written here. I wonder if the...I love what you have written here. I wonder if the problem so many of us have with saying "I am a poet" or "I am a writer" is this business of connecting our identity/selfhood (and therefore perhaps our intrinsic worth) with what we do. I wish we could say simply "I poeticise" or "I write" or "I build houses". Anyway, I really do like your poems and I like you too :-)sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818420999930644450noreply@blogger.com