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On 02/09/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Try Ted before Daniel, Kasper.
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> Hal
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> "Please stand clear of the closing doors."
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> Halvard Johnson
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> On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:42 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
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> > Daniel Berrigan, will check out at a later date.
> > somebody should compile a list of ten contemporary poets who are
> > required reading. I could then decide which of them to reject! muaha
> >
> > KS
> >
> > On 01/09/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Yes, delightful with so many references and allusions. At first I
> >> thought it
> >> was a parody of Hal's obsession, but by the end it was its own
> >> poem. Sonnet?
> >> For sure. For those who haven't read them, there's a wonderful 100
> >> sonnets
> >> by John Tranter, entitled 'Crying In Early Infancy' ... Brilliant.
> >> And also,
> >> there is a new reprint of Berrigan's Sonnets - I don't have the
> >> details on
> >> hand, but maybe someone else will. (And not too expensive - I'd
> >> recommend
> >> it, Kasper.)
> >>
> >> This day is the first day of our spring, and one of the first days of
> >> (Australian) National Poetry Week. I will try my hand at a
> >> contemporary
> >> sonnet to celebrate. You are all invited to write one too/also/as
> >> well as
> >> me/better than me/ha ha ...
> >>
> >> My coccyx ain't so sick anymore.
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/09/2007, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> this was fascinating, and fantastical as anything I've ever read.
> >>> the
> >>> 'sonnet' title seems to be a moodsetter if anything, though my curse
> >>> is to carry with me for all time the expectation of a rhyme/syllable
> >>> scheme when I associate something with a sonnet. my thought is,
> >>> here,
> >>> that this doesn't need a moodsetter. it's a spectacular poem.
> >>>
> >>> KS
> >>>
> >>> On 31/08/2007, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>> Sonnet: The Sense of an Ending
> >>>>
> >>>> In Faerie Tales if the ant king says to kill your horse
> >>>> Then you better do it especially if you want the girl and the
> >>>> gold
> >>>> And all the coupons. Standing by the waterfall you think
> >>>> That everything has changed and you are not sure why
> >>>>
> >>>> And then the Czar comes riding along and next thing you know
> >>>> You are at the ball with your ratskin gloves and your sneer
> >>>> And the chance to die defeating Napoleon and a sleigh
> >>>> Will whiz you away that night and you dance -- the moon, the
> >>>> Neva then
> >>>>
> >>>> The great train to Moscow, and then who should leap
> >>>> Beneath the train? Anna! Anna! And you say something in French
> >>>> And the train moves on as do the stars whirling
> >>>> So that -- at the end -- you end up in Paris
> >>>>
> >>>> And, on the boulevard you walk you walk
> >>>> And, one night, pass the young Baudelaire. Tip your hat. You are
> >>> dying, dying.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ---------------------------------
> >>>> Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew
> >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >> http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
> >>
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