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> know nothing Well of course it crops up sometimes... I don't want to give a false impression, I'm enthusiastic rather than literate. Luke On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 09:34, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Do you really know nothing of the villanelle Luke? I'm no great fan of it > but it's poetry history 101 stuff. > > David > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, 6:04 pm Luke, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I know nothing of the Villanelle but this seems fine and obnoxious. >> >> Luke >> >> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 01:26, jesse <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Villanelle >>> >>> The old should be honored for going away >>> With their broken-up looks and their misfiring minds >>> While the new impresarios program and play. >>> >>> One may stop to suggest that diminishing clay >>> Could, in fact, conceal treasures of various kinds. >>> But the old should be honored for going away. >>> >>> “Those once bold precursors who pointed the way >>> “To the codes now perfected; the apps now refined!”: >>> Wise loungers in sunshine opine as they play: >>> >>> “Forerunners—dear to us--why must they stay >>> “Locked behind shutters; immured behind blinds? >>> “The old should be honored for going away. >>> >>> “Blest childhood enrichers, do not delay >>> “The logic of harvests, the pruning of vines, >>> “We blossoming technocrats, smile when we say-- >>> >>> “You struggled to win, lived your lives, had your day >>> “For you, we’ll build websites, much better than shrines. >>> "The old should be honored for going away..." >>> Say the gifted and glad of it--lords of today. >>> >>> Jesse >>> >>> ######################################################################## >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following >>> link: >>> >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 >>> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following >> link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 >> > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1