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|    Will Dockery to All    |
|    Re: Snow, Snow / George J. Dance    |
|    06 Jan 26 07:16:12    |
      From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid              mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) 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.       > >       > > Stay tuned.       >       > Too bad that your "advanced knowledge of writing [A] sonnet" doesn't extend       to the English language.              There's always room for improvement.              --       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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