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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: My poems   
   22 Feb 26 06:01:01   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) posted:   
   > Clive Nugent wrote:   
   >   
   > > Homage to Milton   
   > >   
   > > The lord of might with Chaos for a bride   
   > > Is known as Satan, king of this dark world.   
   > > Primeval Chaos was his mother too;   
   > > He fears her, he fears consumption by fire.   
   > >   
   > >> From Chaos we were made, we shall return   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > Unless we find a saviour before death.   
   > >   
   > > Ceremony   
   > >   
   > > Beneath the azure twilight sky   
   > > The sea draws back from land,   
   > > The people gathered on the beach   
   > > Are dancing on the sand.   
   > >   
   > > The son of God came down to earth,   
   > > He came in human form.   
   > > We know because he rose from death   
   > > And was of virgin born.   
   > >   
   > > And so we nailed him to a cross,   
   > > He had a painful death.   
   > > But he forgives this and all else,   
   > > He did with dying breath.   
   > >   
   > > But one church says he can't forgive   
   > > The act of suicide;   
   > > The others say blaspheme the ghost   
   > > And heaven is denied.   
   > >   
   > > Beneath the azure twilight sky   
   > > The sea draws back from land,   
   > > The people gathered on the beach   
   > > Are dancing on the sand.   
   >   
   > Some poems from Clive 20 years ago.   
   >   
   > I really do not have much time to make a comment on them now but I feel they   
   certainly deserve to be brought back to the light in 2026.  Certainly someone   
   else here will see fit to say how they might feel about them.   
      
   Well put, MummyChunk.   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=658534944#658534944   
   --   
   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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