Larissa
Doug's casting of the piece brings it out well. I like it.
Simplest thing to do with formatting for this list is to save a poem
as a .txt file then copy and paste that into the e-mail body. If you
paste directly from a rich text programme like Word or its equivalents
things may go wrong.
Best
Dave
2008/5/1 Larissa Shmailo <[log in to unmask]>:
> That's it exactly, except for the line breaks in stanza 2 and 4, but if you don't mind, I am going to keep your breaks because I like them better than mine. Thanks so much!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thu, 1 May 2008 1:10 pm
> Subject: Re: SNAP: Sea (sic)
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> I'm going to assume the stanzas were as follows, Larissa, they certainly can be fiddled.
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> Doug
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> Ramon Fernandez, tell me, if you know,
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> the order of my words.
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> This body, wholly
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> holy, sings as best it can, lisping the mantra
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> "sole."
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> Alone. Why did the
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> singing stop, and why?
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> No, I never broke
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> an honest sweat, did I think the ocean
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> would forget?
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> In the horizon's glance
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> I see a wave rise, rise, rise and die,
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> out of nowhere again, but why?
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> On 30-Apr-08, at 12:28 PM, Larissa Shmailo wrote:
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> > Sea (sic)
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> Douglas Barbour
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> [log in to unmask]
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest books:
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> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
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> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> There are no wrong notes!
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> Thelonious Sphere Monk
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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