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Dr.Moose1
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0 posted 2004-06-14 04:39 PM


O.K., I know I'm very late with this, however, in my own defense, I don't really have a "favorite" poet or poem, so I cheated a little and took the lyrics from an old "Donovan" tune that was one of my favorites back in the early seventies.

Donovan wrote:

"God is playing marbles
with his planets and his stars
creating havoc through my life
through his influence on Mars
that's why I'm stumbling down the highway
on my boots of steel
I should be rolling down the skyway
on my cosmic wheels"

Here's what I came up with:

Listening to the music
in the words that poets pen
through their works revisited
are themes from way back when
sometimes a chord will oscillate
with something quite profound
such things are timeless by the na-
ture of their very sound

as we gain in knowledge
of these people and their lives
through the joys and heartaches
that their passages revive
as Donovans' recording of
a song called " Cosmic Wheels"
may words be made to emulate
the sound of "boots of steel"

While replaying records
which produce no given sound
sifting through the wreckage
of these words I've jotted down
if then successful will those words
which sound as "boots of steel"
bring back for one more spin around
Donovans' "Cosmic Wheels"



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Sunshine
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1 posted 2004-06-15 08:27 AM







Donovan!

Dr.Moose1
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2 posted 2004-06-15 05:13 PM


Thanks, Sunshine, and a Mellow Yellow to you!

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