Thanks, P, you wily word-hoarder!
And Doug who well recognises the good ole stuff.
And Rob: I wouldnae have it any other way.
joodles well-launched by you into 2009
2009/1/1 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Judy keep snapping ---those word-hoard
> Patrick
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> Subject: Makars---Makers of Poetry
>
> A nother [rare for me] snap, this:
>
> Makars--Makers of Poetry
>
>
> 'knowledge made memorable'
> Old English riddlers
> 'well set up, stand in a bed,
> have a roughish root'
>
> their word-hoard hears blowing branches
> a catch in the swan's neck
> a top cloud throwing wisdom
> to weathered men, sharp-eyed
> ponderers of nature's needs, political turns
>
> all must know the old
> the ships and oars and leaving
> wife on the rock who turns sharp, dry-eyed
> pulls carrots and fear from the earth
>
> none can be blind to heroes' sacrifices
> or unborn babies die and die
> until they come to term
> through a knowing womb
>
> how to give, how to hear, how to see
> how to tell the trestles of listening folk
> who plow and dig, who turn the earth back
> to a new seed
>
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