Doug - the number reefers to the day of the year. If I got it wrong, please
tell me!
Patrick - yes, the beginning is too prosy for my likes but as other
poems-a-day, it is a first draft and needs panel beating.
And you're also right about the refererences to the poet/the source - maybe
just once, the second one. Thanks.
Thanks to all who commented and those who read in silence.
Andrew
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On 21 April 2016 at 04:17, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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> not sure what is happening don't leaves usually fall off trees??I don't
> know the refs --do you need his name twice??//cheers P
> I do know sadly that many of my friends leaves are falling :-(
> ps is this close to prose ?seems bit like jotted notes (dare I ignorantly
> say ????)wonder what others think ??
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Burke
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> Subject: snap - Wishful Thinking
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> burke: WISHFUL THINKING #109
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> After reading an elegy
> which had me in tears
> I came across these words.
> *'journey of the fallen leaf *
> *back to the branch'* Franz Wright
> Somehow they apply.
> Maybe when we exit,
> we meet our dead
> gone before us - leaves
> back on the branch. A lot
> of *maybe* in my philosophy
> And then the living
> catch up with us.
> Seems fair. I never met
> Franz Wright but I'm
> a fan. Maybe it is
> wishful thinking. It's
> autumn here and the leaves
> are multi-coloured
> on and off the trees.
>
> --
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