Encouraging Roz to Write

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Talk to me Rosalind, ‘Lovely Rose’
Tell me what it is that makes you smile, that makes you cry?
Talk of your passion, what makes you put pen to page.
Talk of cornbread and little clocks and singing,
And what it is that makes you want to sing and cook,
And the secret hours that slipped away,
Unmeasured by the little clocks.

Do you ever begin to write and find
The opening through which the words are pouring
Is much too small, and you can’t make the the pencil squeeze them onto The paper
Fast enough?
(I’ve only suffered that joyful pain a few times.)

I used to sing and play guitar – old country songs, Bob Dylan; few of my own:
The guitar long gone,
Your words and conversation would lift my heart and make my spirit sing again!