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COPSE

slender runs the course
the valley of sun like fingers
on velveteen breeze
raise from the stoney
ground your fertile strive
and let your sighs
tremble with the gusts
that linger and race
glitter on the glacial
stream
oh verdant spirit
let the quiet solemnity
in this glade be your
midnight prayer
like frost upon the
rocky ayre

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I feel like I just stumbled upon lost verses of Beowulf. Very good, just wonder if title is a perfect fit................stan

... or this is exceptionally well written. Usually I have a little trouble separating the sentences in free verse if the poet does not use punctuation. However, this landed an ending of the first long sentence that I recognized with ease.
wesley

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I saw Copse somewhere
and recalled my youthful trip
with freinds out west
Camping in the ranges of mountians
those images
that air
the light!!!

and Beowulf!! I never read the book
but greatly enjoyed the computer animated
movie
there is nothing so pleasing as the classic
narrations
and this is a break from the "muse"
obsessions I prolong myself to write

Thank You for your comments!

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... you needn't read Beowulf. It is important only because it is the oldest piece of poetry in the English language extant. I loved it, but I'm a lunatic and get a kick out of that sort of thing. I even liked Gilgamesh. However, as a piece of adventure poetry it has much to be desired. Boring in other words. Remember it's a two part thing written by an unknown Danish author (or two) and rehashed by a couple of Catholic monks to include Christianity into all the Pagan fun and reads like it. Not to mention there are sections as large as a hundred lines or so missing in several places, so one moment you're here, the next you're where? Instead, check out Tolkien's translation of The Elder Edda. It was a little controversial in the twenties when he published and it's kind of rock and roll poetry. Weird, violent and lots of fun.
Oddball Historian, wesley

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marg atwood a fave and rebecca godfrey
want to see the Girl with the dragon tatoo movie
reading some canadian lit right now and
love watching detroit arts channel and tvo here
in ontario always running some art kind of movies
its nice to have the option to think sometimes

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... a used (therefore cheap) copy of Anderson for ages. They are all expensive. I read him some twenty years ago and once I got past all the depressing stuff (he's loaded with it) found him gorgeous to read. wesley

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and in those days it was not uncommon for all humanity to
be much used Life was cheap rather then goods today
back when children could be put to use in millworks and
scrubbing chimneys rather then milling about in the malls

Good old industrial revolution! what kind of revolution do
we have today? I remember the wall falling I remember
Reagan and Thatcher and Gorbechev and THE WALL
Pink Floyd that old band I remember typewriters
Yes sad that classic literature is still rather classically
priced I looked for Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton in the
local Coles and none was to be found I still remember
reading John Milton in my late twenties

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