Oh its lost its format in the reply.
Now you mention the ending, Roger, the reason ( I think) that it doesnt
quite match the rest of the poem is that all the rest is description. If you
could think of something theat concluded the description yet expressed
something about remaining, it might be even better. Something like remaining
sedges?
bw
SallyE
on 15/12/02 1:40 pm, Roger Collett at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Arthur has reminded me of an exercise in Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse that
> I managed to complicate with an acrostic a while ago:-
>
>
> Wast Water
>
>
> Watery wilderness
> washing the wounds
> As the scree-slopes,
> scoured deeply, slide
> Sand and boulders
> from the bald bastions.
> The rock looms relentlessly,
> leaving the lake
> With its sombre soul
> shadowed and sunless.
> A cold capstone
> covered in cloud,
> That seldom sees
> the sun, is sharply
> Etched by everpresent
> sheets of endless
> Rain that remove
> the desire to remain.
>
>
> Roger.
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