Follow your heart, guy! If this girl is writing poetry to cry for, you should be asking her about motivation and influence! I'd say a simple "thanks for helping me feel this way!" would be all the poetry she needs from you!! (you may have just found a teacher worth paying attention to...)
Thanks for the tip inbloom. No rules sounds good to me. KNOWUNZELF, you are right, and she surprised me with a visit late last night. I had been reading another of her poems, and so I just held her and thanked her for sharing such beautiful and amazing words with me. You are right, she could feel that I was overwhelmed by them, I told her that I had cried when reading them. That was all of the thanks that she needed. I suppose that sometimes words are not needed. She did say that she wished she could take photographs like I do. So I'm going to help her with her photography and she with my poetry. Lifes great!
...Ain't it just!! Put all the love you can find back into the world, brother, 'cos we're up to our necks in debt at the moment!! Hope it's all going well..best of luck!! K.
I like your philosophy. Things are going wonderfully well. I let her read a poem that I had written last night (Animosity, it's posted on here too). She loved it. Lifes beautiful in our world )