cheers Bill -and I have always cut my own hair since 1960? no wonder I
am so smart !!!I once went to a barber in the 1970? it was not good!!
cheers P
this comes under etc in poetryetc
On 09/11/2017 20:29, Bill Wootton wrote:
> haircutters. More of a 60s word I suppose, P. Less mop on me now, more used
> toothbrush.
> B
>
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 at 1:29 am, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> mopchoppers???
>>
>>
>> On 08/11/2017 22:13, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>> version
>>>
>>> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 at 9:12 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Patrick, Doug.
>>>> Yes, mea culpa sentence loader. And this versin is trimmed!
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 at 2:05 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There’s a lot there that’s either incredibly local or national idiom,
>>>>> Bill, a gathering of terms as well as landmarks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it a bit too sentence-loaded; or maybe should just be a prose poem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 2:11 AM, Patrick McManus <
>>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>> thanks Bill sounds a lovely place -nice last line
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers P
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/11/2017 20:37, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>>>>> A poem reworked for a future local poetry slam. Title is the theme.
>>>>> Feel
>>>>>>> free to offer suggestions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Daylesford & Hepburn Springs - made in heaven
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A bristling block of almost city,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> either end of Daylesford eases off to country.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In between comes clobber, cafes, art, books,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> a white-tiled butcher's, glazed pottery, mopchoppers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> furniture chic, two-storey bank buildings
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and the rump Rex theatre, up an arcade.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Two fountains splash and glisten,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> one down the post office end, the other
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> near the mower shop, viewable
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> from a corner table at the Taj.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And always, Wombat Hill looms over
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Convent's grey balconies.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brick-red kissmequicks, agapanthus spears
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and squadrons of bluebells burst from the soil,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Swiss-Italian planted pines, elms, red oaks and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> copper beeches share gullies and steep ridges
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> with flaky mannagums, candlebarks and cedars
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> all the way to gentle Hepburn Springs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chimneys ease woodsmoke at dusk,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> horse poo sells at the side of the road.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Trains trickle to Bullarto just once a week,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ivy advances on fading guest houses
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but pubs survive and even kick on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Score rissoles at Merv's Savoia, singalong
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> at the Old Hep or gush to Simon at The Goat.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheer parades at Hep's Swiss-Italian Festa,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and Daylesford's Chillout and New Year's Eve,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> where locals take to the streets with gusto;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> stilted Sprung Circus girls, mounted knights
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> in armour, brass bands, lavish LGBTQI's,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> share bitumen with tractors and fire engines.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Black ice slicks up roads in winter,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the cold seems to go on forever,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> no takers still for the vacant Palais,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the General store sells out of sourdough bread.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But rainbow flags flicker in the breeze.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can towns be made in heaven?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> bw
>>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
>> Continuations
>>>>> 2 (UofAPress).
>>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>>>>>
>>>>> There was the usual amount of corruption, intimidation, and rioting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sir Charles Petrie
>>>>>
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