[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Afternoon poem
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 20:25:26 -0700
Yeah, it should be 'rationale' Sorry
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Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:27 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Afternoon poem
I join Stan. A very affecting poem. Just one question. Should the
"rational" in "The rational for the train" be "rationale"? Or am I
missing something?
John
On 9/4/06, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hide and seek
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> There was nothing in front
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> Of me yet as I walked
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> On the path through the wood
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> I could see a darkness
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> Flitting back and forth
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> Like a bat searching the forest
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> For escape. A tinkling rustle
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> Like a crystal wind-chime
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> Stopped me. There was tinnitus
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> To set aside so I waited.
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> I hear so many things:
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> In Madrid, the club in Bali.
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> I stood turning about,
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> Beauty and I heard it
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> Again further away
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> And fainter. Nothing
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> Stays when I seek.
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> Everything disappears.
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John McCreery
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