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It's just a very quick draft, Doug, Judy. The lineation as quoted ain't as posted, Doug! It shows as it should be on my pc at least. But the last line of the first stanza is as should be so I'd be curious to know your objection. 2009/4/29 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> > Yes, one sees that, & that cuts, Dave. But the lineation here seemed a bit > wobbly? As did the last lines of the first stanza. > > Doug > > On 29-Apr-09, at 6:12 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > > I was thinking of a Wilfred Owen phrase' bugles calling from sad shires'. >> This St George's Day parade had been organised to pre-empt the event being >> co-opted by right-wing bodies, yet the brass instruments and uniform >> prevalence couldn't but make me think to a hundred years back, when >> similar >> events would have been trooping the young who were to be the mown in >> Flanders fields a few years later. >> >> 2009/4/29 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> >> >> Davy I misread as bugloss blowing in the field (much better methinks) >>> Love to the whole of Leicester and surrounding regions >>> Patrick poetaster first class,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >>> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw >>> Sent: 29 April 2009 09:34 >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Snap >>> >>> I was walking by the cathedral, coming out of town,and came to a halt at >>> the >>> line of scouts >>> marching for St George. It was Sunday and this >>> was a delayed parade and my mind went back >>> >>> to the blue bound school log books the head >>> allowed me to quarry and the repeated thump >>> of reports on Empire Day. And I thought >>> of bugles blowing somewhere, and mud fields >>> >>> as bands now began a march a trumpet blow. >>> >>> -- >>> David Bircumshaw >>> "Nothing can be done in the face >>> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP >>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet >>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk >>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.7/2085 - Release Date: 04/28/09 >>> 18:02:00 >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> David Bircumshaw >> "Nothing can be done in the face >> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk >> >> > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > There's the wind and the rain > And the mercy of the fallen > Who say they have no claim to know what's right > Dar Williams > -- David Bircumshaw "Nothing can be done in the face of ordinary unhappiness" - PP Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk