I love both of those poems!!! Much much better than mine! Congrats to Demro for publishing. I'm sure it's a great book, I'll have to get it. He's a relative who values you.
I try pretty often, but it's like pulling teeth. Awful. And very strange, because I had no problem at all, astounded myself regularly, for a few years. Maybe it's hormonal.
No, no, not "much better" than your poems - it's precisely because yours are THAT GOOD that I thought of them!!!
This silencing of the Muse, this concerns me. Is it part of turning 60 (or more)?
Is it part of the Empty Nest syndrome?
May your voice come back, stronger than ever - Edgar and Elsie and all your fun, zany characters live on and await you being there to open the door. Usher them back onto the stage. We miss them!