I don't hear it as 'clunky', Patrick. But there again we have different
accents, don't we, so maybe it clunks along in yours! Thanks for the
response.
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On 31 August 2017 at 17:39, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> ah yes capturing these memories -enjoy late winter sunshine
>
> fallen flag of memory -is a bit clunky??
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> On 31/08/2017 06:35, Andrew Burke wrote:
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>> It’s a strong breeze
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>> so my Kerouac shirt falls
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>> to a crumpled red-checked mound
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>> on the green grass. A honey-eater
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>> alights on the grevillea near the Hills Hoist –
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>> I smile as I pick-up the fallen flag of memory –
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>> so much excitement and admiration
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>> in my teenage, years, so much sadness
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>> when he died incomplete and still
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>> at mother’s. Honey-eater flies off.
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>> I hang the shirt
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>> with its motley neighbours: no
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>> business shirts or teacher’s garb.
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>> Retired now, a happy septuagenarian
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>> writing in late winter sunshine,
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>> pen to paper like Jack wrote
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>> furiously in his notebooks.
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>>
>>
>>
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