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http://www.lsoft.com/images/listserv_small.gifRe: Scorchio!
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Like the light and dark imagery you use, Dominic. Bit jack of the sun’s<br>indifferent amnesty here this summer but appreciate the prepared rays you<br>assemble in your poem.<br><br>Bill<br><br>On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 at 2:45 AM, Dominic Fox <dominic.fox@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>> Today, as it is out, I will turn my face to the sun -<br>> the mild cold enlivening, mid-day with jumpers off.<br>> I feel I am emerging into something.<br>> The shadows along the trail go cringing back<br>> into their shadows.<br>> There is more life to go around my limbs:<br>> the head-cold not [...]
2024-03-19T11:57:04+11:00Bill Woottonhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=POETRYETC;e76b56f6.2403Scorchio!
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Today, as it is out, I will turn my face to the sun -<br>the mild cold enlivening, mid-day with jumpers off.<br>I feel I am emerging into something.<br>The shadows along the trail go cringing back<br>into their shadows.<br>There is more life to go around my limbs:<br>the head-cold not debilitating; work’s<br>irritations risible again.<br>A whole and plausible structure rises<br>dripping from the slough.<br>Soon it will put out legs and lumber onwards,<br>tolling its great bell.<br>I gather up some pride; the sun approves,<br>looks kindly on my time-wasting,<br>the little industry of self-indulgence.<br>I am [...]
2024-03-18T15:44:52+00:00Dominic Foxhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=POETRYETC;a61072e.2403Re: Minus Signs
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Thanks Jill for the opening into your poem, Sheila. I should have picked up<br>more.<br><br>Bill<br><br>On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 at 1:01 AM, Sheila Murphy <sheila.murphy@gmail.com><br>wrote:<br><br>> Thanks, Bill!<br>><br>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 7:19 PM Bill Wootton <cottlesbreedge@gmail.com><br>> wrote:<br>><br>> > Not really sure what’s goi g on here, Sheila, but I like the playful<br>> > imperative tone and phrases like ‘recede/from usuality’ and ‘blink<br>> > citizenly’. No risk of cliche in your poems.<br>> ><br>> > Bill<br>> ><br>> > On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 8:12 am, Sheila [...]
2024-03-14T08:00:43+11:00Bill Woottonhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=POETRYETC;f1c9c36f.2403