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  • Yes indeed, sir, a breath of fresh air...

    And just to make sure you don't forget us, here is my part of the poetic response, compiled and adjusted... wr ()() ----------------------------------------------------- Oh, give me a pommeThat is grown pour un homme,Like the apples I picked off our trees.When I was a lad,Then a treat could be had,Even though 'twere surrounded by bees. ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 15, 2007

  • How d'ya like these apples, hm?

    Oh, give me a pommeThat is grown pour un homme,Like the apples I picked off our trees.When I was a lad,Then a treat could be had,Even though 'twere surrounded by bees. Pomme, pomme pour un homme,Like the apples I picked off our trees.Not one from the storeOne can buy anymore,With its flavor bred out by degrees. ''Delicious'' they're ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 15, 2007

  • Yes, you did, and I will! :)

    waltz n capsize:rabbit, your combination gratitude verse and cautionary tale looks good enough to send over to bad poems! i ended up in a song. a girl's gotta love it. waltz Capital idea, w-n-c. (What can I say, people have a way of wandering into my songs and poems.) Here's what I'll send over there (with some additional corrections made): ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 15, 2007

  • Yes, very interested!

    edison jennings:(...) Just because reaching is all one has to do, that does not mean that reaching is all one will do; just as though tending the garden and keeping their paws of the fruit of the knowledge of good and eveil was all Adam and Eve had to do, they nonetheless did a good bit more. (...) Dear Mr. Jennings, Thanks for your comments ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2007

  • Correcting a typo...

    Where sel-dom is heardA dis-cour-a-ging word,And the skies are not cloud-y all day. Not one from the storeOne can buy an-y-more,With its flav-or bred out by de-grees.
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2007

  • Hold on, Auntie P...:)

    Antipasto: ''Not like THOSE in the STORE, one can BUY anyMORE ...'' ''and the skiiiiiiiiiiiiiies are not cloudy all day.'' :-) SIX syllables and SIX syllables. You're not HEARING it, or me. Try it that way, OUT LOUD. It's a song, wabbitomine. Funniest thread I've seen on here in ages; even matches the hard-to-meet or-beat limerick ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2007

  • Re: other jennings poems on line

    Dear Mr. Jennings, Hah, at least we agree (given my first impression, anyway) on ''Chestnuts''. :) Glad you had published a Tuesday Treat rather than (had it been ''Chestnuts'') I would have called, quite independently and infamously, Tuesday Tripe. But I'm very sorry to read that you didn't intend ''Chestnuts'' or others to be published online. ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2007