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that made me smile, Patrick. Here's a wee haiku I've just made up, with
apologies to Basho's pond and frog, just for you:

Orion and the moon
porchlight a winter sky. Oops ~
snail shell crunching sound.

On 26/03/2008, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> BY CHANCE
>
>
>
> He
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> by chance
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> in the middle
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> of the night
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> peered out
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> through his lacy
>
> curtained windows
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> and saw
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> under the full moon
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> of the clear sky
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> on his fine
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> ghostly lawn
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> surrounded by it's
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> herbaceous borders
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> topiaried hedges
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> the Worms so
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> elegantly dancing
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> a pavane or galliard
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> swaying so gently
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> perhaps he could hear
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> faintest of courtly
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> strummed music
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>
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> He
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> decided not
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> to tell Her
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> about it in
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> the morning
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> but
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> fondly regarded
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> the casts
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> left behind
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> little ringed
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> reminders
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>
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>
>
> pmcmanus
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> q227
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> raynes park London uk
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> 08:49
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>
>
>


-- 
David Bircumshaw
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