Great fun. If I only had time ... (I'd probably do song lyrics.) Andrew
On 25 October 2012 02:43, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Snapping at all those poets, I think, Bill.
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> A lot of finders-keepers work there...
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> Doug
> On 2012-10-23, at 2:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Not really a snap, I suppose. Snapped together perhaps?
> >
> > Found Cento
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> > My silence seemed the lapse of a decade.
> > Mr Fotheringham's white china teapot.
> > The art of losing isn't hard to master.
> > But this happened the day be fore yesterday.
> > Finding is losing something else.
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> > It's always ourselves we find in the sea.
> > And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds.
> > One day she left without a word. She took away the sun.
> > The greatest griefs shall find themselves inside the smallest cage.
> > Finding is losing something else.
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> > What is the boy now, who lost his ball,
> > A ball to be thrown. These feet, deprived,
> > Something has ceased to come along with me.
> > The sea rushes at sand castles begging to be knocked flat.
> > Finding is losing something else.
> >
> >
> > 1. Gregory Corso
> > 2. Peter Bakowski
> > 3. Elizabeth Bishop
> > 4. Raymond Carver
> > 5. Richard Brautigan
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> > 6. e e cummings
> > 7. Wilfred Owen
> > 8. anon. (Lemon Tree)
> > 9. D J Enright
> > 10. Richard Brautigan
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> > 11. John Berryman
> > 12. Ted Hughes
> > 13. John Silkin
> > 14. Kevin Brophy
> > 15. Richard Brautigan
> >
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