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   Cujo DeSockpuppet to NancyGene   
   Re: My poems   
   23 Feb 26 16:47:22   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
   news:B6OdnTMjDav2HwH0nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   >> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> She didn't "put" anything forward, dumbass.   
   >>   
   >> She merely declined to express any opinion.   
   >>   
   >> "Well put," means "well said" or "well expressed."   
   >>   
   >> Non-expression is not "well put."   
   >>   
   >> "I have nothing to say" is not "well put."  It's just nothing.   
   >>   
   >> Words matter.   
   >>   
   >> Learn what they mean and how to use them properly.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > "Well put" was next up in Will Donkey's list of stock phrases.   
      
   "If you're scared, just say you're scared." - probably what the big kids   
   always said to him before he got left back a few times in school.   
      
   --   
   "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to   
   you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're   
   functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -   
   Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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