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Mea culpa, again

oceanvu2
Senior Member

since 2007-02-24

Posts 1066
Santa Monica, California, USA

0 posted 2007-09-25 11:09 PM

When peacocks start to strut their stuff,
Someone needs to call their bluff!

(offered in apology for grievous faux pas in "23 Women and a Cameraman."

Abashed, Jim

Brad
Member Ascendant

since 1999-08-20

Posts 5705
Jejudo, South Korea

1 posted 2007-09-26 06:34 AM

quote:

. . .In my room
a vase of peacock feathers. I will attempt
to describe them, as if for evidence
on which a life depends. . . .

Geoffrey Hill, "The Peacock at Alderton"
Poetry March, 2007

chopsticks
Senior Member

since 2007-10-02

Posts 888
The US,

2 posted 2007-10-05 06:33 PM

“When peacocks start to strut their stuff,
Someone needs to call their bluff!”

With 13 words you nailed the mating dance of a peacock.

Thanks for sharing,

oceanvu2
Senior Member

since 2007-02-24

Posts 1066
Santa Monica, California, USA

3 posted 2007-10-05 08:27 PM

Thank you, chopsticks! It really was an apology for a printing mistake. I tend to think in doggrell and epigrams. Can't help it.

Best, Jim

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