Bill shake your fist in the face of convention -breath the poem (or
whatever poets are supposed to do ?) cheers P the most ancient
On 01/08/2019 08:06, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Thanks Patrick. I need a rhyming couplet however to round off this sort of
> Skakey sonnet style.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 9:41 pm, Patrick McManus <
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>> cheers Bill I would quite to end with the line
>>
>> The flagpole lists - light and dark will not merge.
>>
>> On 30/07/2019 23:33, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>> Reaching the moon seemed inevitable.
>>>
>>> Like growing up. Never been there before
>>>
>>> but no reason to think it a fable.
>>>
>>> So how did ‘Never cease’ become ‘Shut the door’?
>>>
>>>
>>> Grounded on the plateau of adulthood,
>>>
>>> where did it go, that impulse for take-offs?
>>>
>>> You’d think we’d reach for the stars while we could
>>>
>>> but our systems shut down like stifled coughs.
>>>
>>>
>>> We sputter into being, look around,
>>>
>>> experiment, accept, reject and surge.
>>>
>>> Then lose that looseness; once gone, never found
>>>
>>> The flagpole lists - light and dark will not merge.
>>>
>>>
>>> Armstrong’s dry footprint in moondust still lies
>>>
>>> Who the hell knows just what it signifies.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alternative closing couplet:
>>>
>>>
>>> That’s one small step, announced Armstrong back then.
>>>
>>> Mr Withers in class: Now back to page ten.
>>>
>>>
>>> bw
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