A Stir of Echoes

Much has been stated about poetry. OPoetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.O Dylan Thomas OPoetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.O Rumi OPoetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.O Carl Sandburg OPoetry is a word-fed spring flowing from the consciousness of the poetOs mind.O RZgis Auffray With OA Stir of EchoesO it is the authorOs hope that the reader will be able to appreciate and perhaps to identify with the various situations, dilemmas, conflicts, miseries, euphoria, etc. that are expressed and consequently shared through his verses. The verses offer a glimpse into the authorOs soul and thus a way to get to know him more intimately.