Thanks, Patrick. Yes, the past ....
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Subject:Re: Night Walking Snap
ah that wanting -and the past
thanks P
On 14/03/2018 09:00, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Quite beautiful I think, Jill, especially those gracious line
turns.
> Strained moonlight, loss, it’s all there.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 at 7:22 pm, Jill Jones wrote:
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>> THE UN-MARVELLING
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>> How strange was last night, I beheld your face, electric
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>> with thought along with my unrest, alight and hollow
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>> when the night trees shivered and the block
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>> we walked seemed more cluttered than the road
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>> we used to walk, where every little plot
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>> and fence was tended, maybe we were too narrow
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>> maybe we lost our hunger then to care or look
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>> to stare at stars, to forget the way we marvelled
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>> how their brightness could also seem soft
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>> and how the moonlight would seem to strain
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>> through the canopy no matter how intense or thick
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>> how this strange loveliness may never come again
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>> how I wanted something - something I never quite got
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>> Jill Jones
>> www.jilljones.com.au
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>> Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
>> http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
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