breathe
if you want to say "breath the poem" wny not add "enjoy"?
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 13:00, Patrick McManus <
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> 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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