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H. Arlequin
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0 posted 1999-10-10 08:23 PM

November Natchez, 1863

Spongy homespun suits, sopping, stoneweight,
turgid, seamless serges, saturate,
streaming sodden shelters, scarred swollen shapes
scared to swamp the Mississippi steamships,
stranded soldiers, stockstill side-by-side,
soul-soaked, skin-drenched, scan a listless tide.
Stale smelling stench, unwashed places, social
graces scarce supply, unstirred flesh, miasmal
seepage stuns the senses, ceding the scene
as certain suicide, erasing sights, scents, obscene.
Constant sheeting, slanting sleet, slapping faces
astern the upperclass salon's stewardship of places
snug, serene, secure, captain, shipmates, crew
seeing the seedy misery, with Pilate washed up, too.

--H. Arlequin
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Poems From the Goober Tree http://nathoo.wustl.edu/goober_tree.htm

[This message has been edited by H. Arlequin (edited 10-15-1999).]

Denise

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1 posted 1999-10-10 09:33 PM

Most excellent, H.A. Very descriptive and with a timeless theme.

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H. Arlequin
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2 posted 1999-10-12 03:54 AM

smooooooooooches denise!!

glad your computer is back up!!

HA

U K Hero
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3 posted 1999-10-12 06:09 AM

I have to say that this is not my cup of tea (English expression) but , I did appreciate the cleverness and effort you placed within its structure, Well done.

Sunshine

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4 posted 1999-10-12 11:01 AM

I like this very, very much,
but will not read aloud
if a drink or two I've touched!

I applaud the work that went into this. Well done!

Nan

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5 posted 1999-10-16 04:47 PM

You're a very entertaining goober, HA!!!

snow in summer
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6 posted 1999-10-20 05:06 PM

amazing, simply amazing is all i can say

Watcher666
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7 posted 1999-10-21 08:57 AM

Nicely done..Liked this one!

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Pepper
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8 posted 1999-10-21 09:12 AM

Excellent HA!

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

H. Arlequin
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9 posted 2000-01-24 03:50 PM

Yeaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

This one got accepted by

The American Poets and Poetry Journal

)))))))))))))

Denise

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10 posted 2000-01-24 04:58 PM

Congratulations, H.A.!!!

Wooooooohoooooooooo......way to go!!

Denise

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