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Thanks Andrew and Doug. I stole the form from the Stephen Edgar poem, Flight Plan, which you might know, in which each stanza comprises two pentameter lines (1 & 3), a trimeter line at 2 and a tetrameter line at 4. The poem moves from describing the pattern of swallows flying to a more metaphysical plane. The last two stanzas: This space might simply perish or collapse - As now, and now, they dart Towards a fraying border of the gaps Where clear dimensions drift apart And absence threatens to evaporate, And flying they repair And bear across the day the empty weight And formless membrane of the air. Bill On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 3:14 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yeah, like the threes, Bill, & with Patrick on the berries deshabille … > > Would never ever go back that way myself… > > Doug > > > On Sep 19, 2019, at 6:08 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > Ha ha, love the rhymes!!! > > > > Andrew > > > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 16:11, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > >> Thanks, Patrick. Thought I might be pushing it a bit with deshabille! > >> > >> Bill > >> > >> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 5:59 pm, Patrick McManus < > >> [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> > >>> ah cheers Bill your old memories series liked esp ' > >>> > >>> deshabille,Cotoneaster berries > >>> > >>> > >>> have good evening > >>> > >>> On 17/09/2019 22:25, Bill Wootton wrote: > >>>> Return to Room 4 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> So after twenty years, I’m back, Room 4, > >>>> > >>>> a school reunion tour. > >>>> > >>>> First change, step in no more through sliding door. > >>>> > >>>> And all the furniture looks newer. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> No chance a desk would scrape on bare floorboards > >>>> > >>>> No desks. No rows. Adieu. > >>>> > >>>> And, Good Lord - no blackboard to look toward. > >>>> > >>>> All eyes now drink the garden view. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Cotoneaster berries jostle still, > >>>> > >>>> all bright orange and red, > >>>> > >>>> in random clusters, all so deshabille, > >>>> > >>>> on snaking branches overhead. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Results-based seating, never a tool so blunt, > >>>> > >>>> Progress a chimera. > >>>> > >>>> Now garden focus whether back or front. > >>>> > >>>> Welcome, old room to new era. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> 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): > > > ON THE LAKE > > reeds > > stalk > > reeds > > Nelson Ball > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1