your release from “inside the whale”-was still fresh in your mind).
James, I appreciate the painful introspection revealed in the second poem (which I assume was written some time ago when your dramatic transition from terminal hopeless pain to near-miraculous remission-ie. As you know yourself from your own fine poems, we might think we are doing something technical, but readers don’t always rate it! Thanks again. In other words, re-achieves balance – so in the last line I hope that ‘good God!’ is like that sudden bobbing surprise of we’re about to go down but we don’t! However, whether any reader finds that convincing is an altogether different question. Whether life is worse than death is a really interesting thought, but I would draw attention to my own intentions in the poem by pointing out one small linguistic detail: the title Mr Adam Writes is a pun on ‘Rights’, as in a ship that rights itself in a storm. And you are right about the identification in that it is a dramatic monologue from the perspective of Adam or Mr Adam – to you and me. As for the second, I love the word Salean – that is high praise indeed I only wish it were true! I take it that the innovation that you are spotting which makes it Salean is the fact that it is in sonnet form but uses tetrameter lines rather than pentameter? This idea was suggested to me by Shakespeare’s sonnet 145 beginning: Those lips that Love’s own hand did make …and which ends ”I hate’, from hate away she threw,Īnd saved my life, saying ‘not you’.” This is generally considered a pun on Hathaway, and so is considered an early sonnet in praise of his wife. I am glad you like the first poem and its structure. Thanks CB for these interesting comments.
He is the winner of First Prize in the Society’s 2017 Competition and Second Prize in the Society’s 2015 Competition. James has been writing poetry for over 40 years and has seven collections of poems published, including most recently, Inside the Whale, his metaphor for being in hospital and surviving cancer, which afflicted him in 2011. James Sale, FRSA is a leading expert on motivation, and the creator and licensor of Motivational Maps worldwide. The snivelling, wheezing, coughing plight Our real communion’s like our real heaven. So prone, because we love ourselves, to fail Rather, let gathering words stream to the test:Īn ocean, then, of thanks for last night’s meal Your work invalid when it’s not compressed. Without a trace of guilt or silly squeam. Simply to show how simply lines are stressed So for six weeks, after her boys were in bed each night, she worked on her first twelve sample dresses.This thanking you in sonnet form might seem Her goal was to design clothes that allow moms to immerse themselves in their kids’ adventures, while also feeling confident and attractive.
She didn’t feel like there was comfortable, durable, but also fashionable clothes for mothers so she decided to create them. She had become a single mother shortly after her second son was born and needed to financially provide for her boys (now 5 and 8), and she had an idea.
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What really surprised (and inspired) me was that Whitney had no idea how to make dresses when starting out! She bought a sewing machine, a book on pattern drafting, and set to work. Whitney reached out recently about her summer line of dresses, and I got the chance to learn a bit more about how she started Sonnet James.
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