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   Message 44,573 of 45,517   
   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: Snow, Snow / George J. Dance   
   17 Jan 26 19:01:26   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   georgedance04@yahoo-dot-ca.no-spam.invalid (George J. Dance) posted:   
      
   > HarryLime wrote:   
   >> NancyGene wrote:   
   >>> Will-Dockery wrote:   
   > >>>> George J. Dance wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Snow, Snow   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> 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   
   > >>   
   > >> Agreed the photograph is quite iconic.   
   >   
   > > But only in its true, iconic form:   
   >   
   > This from HarryLiar, who'll whine for years about someone else posting an   
   "altered photograph".   
      
   Again, you nailed it, GJD.   
      
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