> These poems are tendentious, smug, and prosaic.
I have a suspicious mind, when I'm not being gullible, and tended to think
they were parodies.
Or hoped so.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: Poessays
> Joao Barros-Pereira/Toto Akeru wrote:
> >
> > Dear Readers,
> > Please be kind enough to comment!
> >
> > Champagne
> >
> > Far
> > too many
> > of us
> >
> > were
> > introduced
> > to
> > Shakespeare
> >
> > even before
> > the legal
> > drinking age
> >
> > and soon
> > got drunk
> > on
> > his words
> >
> > and the
> > wonderful
> > cadences
> > of his
> > sentences
> >
> > Later
> > in life
> >
> > some of us
> > were
> > lucky enough
> > to discover
> >
> > the
> > Eastern
> > mystics
> > and
> > masters
> >
> > and
> >
> > slowly
> >
> > slowly
> >
> > became
> > less
> > and less
> >
> > satisfied
> > with
> > the Bard
> >
> > as
> > we read
> > more
> > and more
> >
> > of the
> > great works
> >
> > no longer
> >
> > through
> > the passage
> > of our
> > Christian minds
> >
> > glimpsing
> > new
> > worlds
> >
> > at
> > depths
> > Shakespear
> >
> > never
> > dreamed of
> >
> > Home
> > Sweet Home
> >
> > Once upon
> > a time
> >
> > Alex Haley
> > wrote
> > a book
> > called
> >
> > Roots
> >
> > which made
> > a lot of people
> >
> > all over
> > the world
> >
> > go
> > in search
> > of their
> > beginnings
> >
> > We
> > are not
> >
> > trees
> >
> > whispers
> > a voice
> >
> > sitting
> > calmly
> >
> > in
> > the shade
> > of the
> > pipal
> >
> > Look
> > within
> >
> > for
> > your home
> >
> > no matter
> > where
> > you come
> > from
> > or
> >
> > where
> > you
> > intend to go
>
> These poems are tendentious, smug, and prosaic.
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