on 15/9/02 6:44 pm, alderoak at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> interesting
>
> Sally's poem is brill - but, I suspect, only when carried by the cricket
> reference. Without that context the metaphor 'caught out' is so conventional
> it is taken as a merely objective reference to late misfortune.
>
> Terri )O(
> well of course I meant the cricket connection - a very modest (!) SallyE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Sally Evans
> Sent: 09 September 2002 22:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: drifting gently
>
>
> on 8/9/02 8:02 pm, John Carley at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> --
>> drifting gently into autumn
>> a butterfly at long on
>>
>>
>> *'long on' - a distant out-field position in the game of cricket
>>
>> any and all c&c welcome as ever. thanks, john e c
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>
> a cabbage white caught out by sudden autumn
>
> SallyE
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