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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: My poems   
   23 Feb 26 19:29:46   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >> 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   
   > >   
   > > She "put" her response really well.   
   > >   
   > > Your move.   
   >   
   > She wasn't responding to anything.   
      
   MummyChunk was responding to previous criticism.   
      
   --   
   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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