I dont have a problem with dryads, Bill, but dont get that Ivanhoe reference at all...
As Max said, good visuals...
Doug
On 2013-03-13, at 4:42 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> No Raynes Park, P but dryads or some such have delivered a breeze here tonight which breaks the spell of 10 days in a row of minimum temps over 20, 10 max over 30 in Cottles Bridge.
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> Bill
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> On 13/03/2013, at 6:40 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Bill those dryads give a sparkle for me thanks
>> I bet that there is no Raynes Park in Ozland!!
>> P in cold
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>> Sent: 12 March 2013 20:37
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Bulrushes snap
>>
>> Abutting mowed cricket zones at Chelsworth
>> below The Boulevard rests a wetland ovalsworth
>> of Moses minders. Busbies on stalks, turds on sticks,
>> Grand-father clock gongs. Dryads dart between reeds,
>> landing on their spikelets, causing them to dip.
>>
>> Dry to tongue, raspy-razored, even when wet.
>> Plucked bulrushes should sound a swampy bass-thunk
>> but sway instead, nodding noiselessly in Ivanhoe breeze.
>> Gather up these silent skittles into your arms.
>> There is no bull about bulrushes, even when provoked.
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>>
>
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