Mr Goodale!
You've been hiding your light under a bushel lo these many years!
There is some wonderful stuff there - just lovely.
Your gruff exterior clearly is meant to hide a poet's soul!
Jeff B -
I think it does matter, in ways though that I can't put my finger on. I appreciate you and Tom offering up these basics. Reading them, I realize that, in a very real sense, they aren't "basics" at all -- i.e. they are "essentials"!
Good stuff Rich. A tip of the cap.
A delightful poem that expresses my own philosophical priors better than I am able.
Bob
Thanks, Peter and Bob, but I'm sure both of you are familiar with "Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish. There are a very few great poems which can withstand plagiaristic interpolation
but this is one of them. Just re-insert "a poem" wherever you see "a golf course", and you'll see what I mean.