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On 07/12/2016 21:51, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Thanks Pat, Doug and Andrew again. Not that it matters, I suppose but I
> googled monkey bars for images and maybe my memory is faulty: it looks like
> fivers would have been easily possible.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 at 3:53 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> It doe work better this way, Bill.
>>
>>
>>
>> Usually it should come as it happens, but you’ve worked the lines well…
>>
>>
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>> On Dec 6, 2016, at 7:43 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good advice, Andrew, I think. Here's swinging version 2. Hope the
>> spacings
>>
>>> stay the same as on my page.
>>> Bill
>>> Monkey Bars 2
>>> Queue up at recess and lunch
>>> Get ready for
>>> swinging action
>>> Many options available
>>> Fourers for the fearless
>>> swing-dangling from
>>> one clinging hand
>>> skipping two intervening bars
>>> investing fully in reaching that fourth bar with your other outstretched
>>> hand
>>> even at risk of your head
>>> bobbing up to hit an intervener
>>> Momentum the trick
>>> so from the top rung
>>> of the blue-grey metal ladder
>>> lean out
>>> to the
>>> third bar
>>> grip
>>> then let her rip
>>> hips and legs adding propulsion
>>> And don't stop there
>>> maintain momentum
>>> until swing-off
>>> at other end
>>> Thing is you had to be of a size
>>> to pull off fourers
>>> grade five or six
>>> Three-ers were all most could stretch to
>>> in grade four
>>> Two-ers were piddlers
>>> but exciting in their way
>>> ground being
>>> so far below
>>> when you are that small
>>> Monkey bar magic
>>> That rush of created wind
>>> playground chatter sounds changing
>>> as you w h i z z by
>>> no longer
>>> earthbound
>>> bw
>>> 7.12.16
>>> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 at 11:34 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> The lines are a bit rigid, stuck to the left hand margin as they are.
>> Give
>>
>>>> the page more flight and energy by staggering the lines ... Just a
>> thought:
>>
>>>> the page is your playground. (As Duke said, 'It don't mean a thing if it
>>>> ain't got that swing!')
>>>> Andrew
>>>> On 7 December 2016 at 07:41, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Queue up at recess and lunch
>>>>> Get ready for swinging action
>>>>> Many options available
>>>>> Fourers for the fearless
>>>>> swing-dangling from one clinging hand
>>>>> skipping two intervening bars
>>>>> investing fully in reaching that fourth bar with your other
>> outstretched
>>
>>>>> hand
>>>>> even at risk of your head
>>>>> bobbing up to hit an intervener
>>>>> Momentum the trick
>>>>> so from the top rung
>>>>> of the blue-grey metal ladder lean out
>>>>> to the third bar
>>>>> grip
>>>>> then let her rip
>>>>> hips and legs
>>>>> adding propulsion
>>>>> And don't stop there
>>>>> maintain momentum
>>>>> until swing-off at other end
>>>>> Thing is you had to be of a size
>>>>> to pull off fourers
>>>>> grade five or six
>>>>> Three-ers were all most could stretch to
>>>>> in grade four
>>>>> Two-ers were piddlers
>>>>> but exciting in their way
>>>>> ground being so far below
>>>>> when you are that small
>>>>> Monkey bar magic
>>>>> That rush of created wind
>>>>> playground chatter sounds changing
>>>>> as you whizz by
>>>>> no longer earthbound
>>>>> bw
>>>>> 6.12.16
>>>> --
>>>> Andrew
>>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>>> Books available through Walleah Press
>>>> http://walleahpress.com.au
>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>>
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>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>>
>>
>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>>
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>>
>>
>> Venerable Optimist
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>>
>>
>> He saw the dark as a ragged garment
>>
>> spread out to air.
>>
>> Through its rents and moth-holes
>>
>> the silver light came pouring.
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>>
>>
>> Denise Levertov
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