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   Message 44,335 of 45,517   
   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: Snow, Snow / George J. Dance   
   05 Jan 26 19:55:49   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >> George J. Dance wrote:   
   >   
   > >> Snow, Snow   
   > >>   
   > >> Snow, snow, get out of here;   
   > >> Come again some other year.   
   > >> I'd rather that the skies were clear.   
   > >> Snow, snow, get out of here.   
   > >>   
   > >> gjd 2026   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Again, here in the Southlands you'd have gotten your wish, this last   
   Christmas was warm, actually it could have been considered hot.   
   > >   
   > > I wrote a poem, an early attempt at a sonnet, about a similar Christmas   
   in  1976 or 1977, probably lost, titled "Snow No Show."   
   > >   
   > > Dan Barfield was a bit harsh on it because he wasn't a fan of rhymes in   
   poetry, which may have contributed to the poem's lost status now.   
   > >   
   > > I'm thinking about recreating the poem using my currently more advanced   
   knowledge of writing the sonnet, possibly in these last few weeks of winter.   
   >   
   > It's easy to pick out   
      
   You should be familiar with the photograph, NancyGene, after sll, you've   
   stolen and vandalized it already.   
      
   HTH and HAND.   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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