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• Judging Talent
  by Arletta

  How is it that one judges a talent? / A writer staggers in and floors many / Flooding tales of life not well lived / Oh they pour in, drop b…

  Just a thought … I was reading a book wherein on the back it said that the author was a writer of staggering talent. Now, she is talented, I grant you; and I begrudge her not her accolades. But the truth is that if it was a fictional story, made up whole cloth, even then it would not be staggering.. but it would be closer. I mean, the story is staggering.. but it is based on the truth of her life and that is what is staggering. Which gave me pause, knowing that .. for I would hardly say she is more talented than Douglas Adams or Stephen King or Georgette Heyer ever were, or even as good in my personal opinion, and she’d never give Steinbeck or Shakespeare a run for their money… it is simply that the story is powerful, then, apparently, that she herself has been acclaimed as staggering. The tale of Ghandi is staggering, and he told some parts of it, but it hardly made him a writer, journalist, film producer, etc. did it? And if he had done those things on his own? Well, the story would still have been staggering, but it still would not have made him anything but what he was. So that is what I was wondering about, talent not Ghandi, and why. It is not that she could not be a staggering writer. It is that to determine it you’d have to see something she wove with words all on her own, not just in the retelling of little events that happened, in the rehashing of old letters. That’s all.

• FAMILY HISTORY
  by Bobbie Sandlin

  Olden hands, open book / Flip from page to page / Familiar smile, misty eyes / Long for bygone days / / Pictures old and tattered / Stagnant …

  A poem about family history, flipping through picture albums…marveling at our ancestors All writing in my gallery is © Bobbie Sandlin