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   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) posted:   
   > HarryLime wrote:   
   >> 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.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > >> Agreed the original photograph is quite iconic.   
   > >   
   > > But only in its true, iconic form:   
   >   
   > The picture doesn't show the dog branch   
      
   Probably because that's all in your bizarre fantasies, NancyGene.   
      
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