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744	Guest poem submitted by Sidharth Jaggi, <jaggi@...>: "Haiku" The seashore temple... Incoming rollers flow in time To the holy flute. -- Yosa Buson ...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 1, 2001 11:47 am
745	Here you go... ##### From: Maladina Comment on: "The Cremation of Sam McGee", Robert Service Archived at:...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 2, 2001 3:48 am
746	'Last Answers' I wrote a poem on the mist And a woman asked me what I meant by it. I had thought till then only of the beauty of the mist, how pearl and gray...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 2, 2001 10:36 am
747	Guest poem sent in by Gaurav Khanna <gaurav@...> 'Night of the Scorpion' "I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 4, 2001 11:23 am
748	This week's theme - some of Bertie Wooster's oft-quoted poems. 'The Blessed Damozel' The blessed damozel lean'd out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 5, 2001 4:55 pm
749	"Warning" When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 6, 2001 9:46 am
750	Guest poem submitted by Suresh Ramasubramanian, <suresh@...>, as part of this week's theme, poems oft-quoted by Bertie Wooster: "The Wreck of the...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 7, 2001 9:42 am
751	Continuing the Bertie Wooster theme... 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 8, 2001 12:41 pm
752	Chiming in... "Loch Lomond" By yon bonnie banks, and by yon bonnie braes, Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond, Where me and my true love were ever wont...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 9, 2001 9:34 am
753	Winding up the theme... 'The Dream of Eugene Aram' 'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out...	Sitaram Iyer ssiyer@...	Mar 10, 2001 9:58 am
754	Guest poem sent in by Deepa Balakrishnan <lightoflife79@...> Jan 2nd 's poem 'No Second Troy' reminded me of Dryden's 'Alexander's Feast' and I decided...	Sitaram Iyer ssiyer@...	Mar 11, 2001 9:27 am
755	Guest poem sent in by Robert Finnegan <RFinnegan@...> 'The Day Lady Died' It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959...	Sitaram Iyer ssiyer@...	Mar 12, 2001 8:00 am
756	This week's theme: the Moon. We start with a guest poem submitted by Mike Christie, <mikec@...>: "Full Moon and Little Frieda" A cool small evening...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 13, 2001 9:31 am
757	This week's theme: the Moon. "Hymn to Diana" Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 14, 2001 11:12 am
758	Guest poem sent in by sukrit <holysmoke@...> 'Silver' Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 15, 2001 5:08 pm
759	##### From: Vikram Doctor Comment on: "Lay your sleeping head, my love", W. H. Auden Archived at: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/307.html I...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 16, 2001 6:18 am
760	"Above the Dock" Above the quiet dock in midnight, Tangled in the tall mast's corded height, Hangs the moon. What seemed so far away Is but a child's balloon,...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 16, 2001 10:11 am
761	Guest poem sent in by Anustup Datta <Anustup.DATTA@...> 'Milk for the Cat' When the tea is brought at five o'clock, And all the neat curtains are drawn with...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 17, 2001 8:54 am
762	Guest poem sent in by Vikram Doctor <vikdoc@...> 'from The Dog Beneath The Skin' Now through night's caressing grip Earth and all her oceans slip, ...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 19, 2001 7:39 pm
763	'Accident in Art' What painter has not with a careless smutch Accomplished his despair?--one touch revealing All he had put of life, thought, vigor, feeling, ...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 20, 2001 9:36 am
764	Guest poem sent in by Suchitra Kumar <suchi_7@...> "Mending Wall" Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 21, 2001 2:47 pm
765	Guest poem sent in by Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@...> 'A Ballad of John Nicholson' It fell in the year of Mutiny, At darkest of the night, John...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 22, 2001 11:42 pm
766	Guest poem sent in by Jeff Berndt <thecraichead@...> 'At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me' Dear Madam, you have seen this play; I never saw it till...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 23, 2001 11:55 pm
767	'Story-Time' "Tell us a story," comes the cry From little lips when nights are cold, And in the grate the flames leap high. "Tell us a tale of pirates bold, Or...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 24, 2001 11:54 pm
768	Guest poem sent in by Teresa D. Gunnell <gunnell@...> 'In the Waiting Room' In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 25, 2001 2:11 pm
769	Many thanks to Ritabrata Roy for suggesting today's poem. DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit an intelligent...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 27, 2001 3:02 am
770	"The World was Young, the Mountains Green" The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone, ...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 28, 2001 8:33 am
771	'Writing' A man who keeps a diary, pays Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful--then His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are...	Martin Julian DeMello mdemello@...	Mar 28, 2001 7:27 pm
772	Guest poem submitted independently by Reed C. Bowman, <hammerquill@...> and Vidur, <vidur_b@...> : "The Invitation" It doesn't interest me what you...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 29, 2001 9:38 am
773	Guest poem submitted by Sameer Siruguri, <siruguri@...> "Song of Creation" Then there was neither Aught nor Nought, no air nor sky beyond. What covered...	Abraham Thomas thomas@...	Mar 30, 2001 6:18 am

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