COMMENTS: To Live as if I am Going to Live

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005: I like the zig-zagged graphology of it... it excited the senses, beautiful imagery, wonderful personification... great work. (lonesome http://www.forums.fantasticpoems.com/p61391.html#61391)

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005: i really enjoyed this poem, great imagery. i like the resolution, and what it tells me about the gift of life. parts of it were almost coy, and i appreciated that. great write! (the undying http://www.forums.fantasticpoems.com/p61391.html#61391)

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005: an amazing breath of originality... truly amazing piece. uplifting and just.... wow... i'm kinda at a loss for words... this is one that i will read again because it makes me feel like all of this is worthwhile... great read... its a beautiful talent you have there. (trishthedish9505 http://www.forums.fantasticpoems.com/p61391.html#61391)

Major work here....I feel that in my bones. ...so many phrases to beguile, especially in the 2nd verse.

I am not fond of this kind of zig-zaggy format which doesn't allow for flow but jerks me this way and that and almost requires a finger on the page to trace the route from word to word. better that you had gradually wound the piece like a path leading from abject misery to utter exuberance and if that was your intention, may I offer the opinion that you should have done so in a more meandering way because what actually happens is that there is not a meandering but a jerking back and fore.

Apart from the words that you repeat ... I think this is word perfect, but those lines irritate me, although last one less so than the rest...because I find the practice to be an artifice...but I know it's only a personal opinion and it seems that quite a few people in this site use this odd form of repetition.

But as I started to say at the start, the piece has a real quality feel to it and I respect your impressive talent. (Dawn http://www.forums.fantasticpoems.com/p61391.html#61391)

2005-03-31 15:54 PT Cathleen ( cathleenmuldoon )
Kasha~
your bold poem about relating to death was inspirational for me.
Thanks for posting it. I want to know if I could print
it up and post it on my wall? Email me please.

Email 3/30/05
Hello beautiful woman,
Y ou have been a wonderful teacher in ways that you can't image. I love you Kasha. I'm framing your poem and keeping it for inspiration. I can't use the English langauge
to express myself to you any more. xxo Suzette

Email 3/11/05
Kasha - this is amazing - what an awesome gift for writing you have - and thank you so much for sharing it - honestly, it is incredibly beautiful. I hope you are as happy as you sound - I hope you keep writing... and sharing it. To me, it's funny that some people live their lives without ever really touching people around them too much... sure, their own families, but not "strangers" - and interestingly, it's strangers that tend to leave extremely profound marks on people's lives... poets, teachers, Rosa Parks who rode a bus one day... So maybe I'm blabbing, but your life, behaviors, words, etc. are making a mark on me. So you are right... you are living as if you're going to live - because as long as you touch people's lives - you are alive.
I admit, while I read your poem I thought of you... but I also thought of myself when I was told what to expect by doctors... it's not that I don't admire medicine and understand that it's very important, it's just that I felt somehow I actually had more control over things than they seemed to think... I was told emphatically that I didn't, and that false hope was not good... but the control I had was just what you wrote about - control over my mind and beliefs. so, it really touched me when i read this. in fact, you should consider publishing this for people who have, or are living through these things. I think it would be amazingly helpful.... just a thought...
Ann

Email 3/9/05

Way cool, my lady friend!!

Thank you so much for sharing your deep inspiration with me.

Ahhh, I feel the wonder in your words and the joy in your heart! Your words express exquisite soul delight!

Many hugs, light and love,

Lin

Email 3/9/05

Thanks -- it brought tears of joy to my eyes! Love & Light -- Phil

Email 3/9/05
Kasha, That is so incredibly beautiful. I wish you could see the grin on my face that is stretching from ear to ear! -Dan

Email 3/9/05
A truly beautiful poem!!!! YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do LIVE! Do Be ALIVE--GO for IT....
Love and light, Barbara

Email 3/9/05
wow.
That's really amazing. You are awesome.
Jim

Email 3/9/05
Wow!!!!!
BRAVO!!!! BRAVO!!!! BRAVO!!!! BRAVO!!!! BRAVO!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!
JUICY!!!!!!!!!! JUICY!!!!!!!!!! JUICY!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS FOR YOUR LIGHT!!!!
YOUR LOVE!!!!!!!
YOUR LAUGHTER!!!!
YOUR SHINING LIGHT!!!!!
LOVING EXAMPLE TO US ALL!!!!
In this wonder-full wounded world!!!!
That we can dance in!!!!

LoveLightSea, Karl

Email 3/9/05
Way way cool, Kasha.
How often do I get to witness someone choosing a new way of living!
As I said, you are huge. (In your humble way.)
Love,
Dave
PS: The part about having been dropped behind the couch made me laugh out loud.

Email 3/9/05
Hi Kasha!
I LOVE your poem! It is wonderful, warm, honest with a touch of lightness! You are truly inspirational! Live Love and Being Now! Right Here Right Now!
Love to you!
Margurite

Email 3/9/05
Hurray!!!!!!!!!!
tina

Email 3/9/05
Beautiful, *beautiful* poem. Thank you for sharing it!
All the best, lots of love, DaveP

Email 3/9/05
Kasha, I love it. I also write poetry. It helps me look and write about the world through my eyes and words; no one elses! Great!!!!! Linda

Email 3/9/05
Dearest Kasha,
Absolutely beautiful, and even playful poem.
Love, Bobbi

Email 3/9/05

Dearest Kasha,
Your poem gave me so much joy. I love seeing you in Tiera del Fuego and......all over in your deep all kinds of feeling voice, on the deft delight of your dancing feet in the rich luxurious presence of who you are.

Your expansive and genuine poem also reminds me that we are not inside of the body, the body is inside of us. I think that's what the dervishes knew........

Thank you for sharing your poem and the joy of its flow to you........

love, John

Email 3/9/05
I love the imagry. I love the redundant "fallen" (which is this case really means risen) at the start. It is a VERY NICE poem. Thank You for sharing it!!!
Love, Joe

Email 3/9/05
the poem was beautiful.. I sent your email on to another friend and sister who has just been diagnosed with cancer... I am insipred by your courage and clarity..blessings Peggy

Email 3/9/05
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! Susan

Email 3/9/05
Beautiful. Inspiring. Hopeful. Rick

Email 3/9/05
That's beautiful. Thank you. H

Email 3/9/05
Hi Kasha,
I printed out your poem and have read it over and over and over again. It's beautiful and exciting and captures so perfectly the energy and light that you are radiating. It does indeed feel like something is shifting -- something wonderful and powerful :)
love, Marilyn

Email 3/9/05
Kasha....Blessings and love on the Journey...yes..to expression...of it all....to the surprises...to the river of healing and truth..
Stewart

Email 3/9/05
Kasha, this poem is wonderful! I got goosebumps. The wonderfully playfull part about dancing around around the equator and spinning on the north pole reminded me of a statue I fell in love with. Picture attached. She is the young-playful, old-wise Frog Princess.
Love to you,
Ken

Email 3/9/05
Thank you, Kasha, for choosing to live as if you were going to live. Living as if you were going to live, it seems to me, is a long form of the central idea we often simply label love. Thank you for sending your love- and life with it. Very warmly, david

3/9/05
AMAZING!!!!!! Very, very, very, very, very good!! It is both a poetically great poem, and also, and more importantly (to me), a significant move for you and such an opening of the future and possibilities.
I liked the spinning 33 times. Very strong emotion/imagery/something in the:

then patiently waited
waited to be opened
opened by Death

Oh, and I liked the belly-flop. :-) Made me smile. Read it a couple more times. Very, very good.
Dave

Mar 09, 2005: KASHA's COMMENTs
I wrote this poem in the middle of the night. I woke with the first line running through my head. I picked up my dream journal, started writing, and the rest just flowed. The first draft included everything except the two DanceHopSpinFree verses--those came quickly in the second draft just a minute after completing the first draft. After that there was just a tweak or two. This was the easiest poem I have ever written and the best by far. It is the first poem to come to me since I was diagnosed.

I feel so much in my life changing since I made a decision a couple of weeks ago to step into the center of my own power place and to live from there. The idea and implementation of the Gatherings With Kasha are a part of that. I have been painting. And changing the way I relate to people. And, now, writing poetry again ...

It felt wonderful to write. I was all juiced up and excited after writing it. It came easily and quickly and then felt complete. And my pain lessened almost immediately. I feel that something deep within me has shifted.

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