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Common Ground... (#7-or so) |
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Nan
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since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA 
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 What tolls betoken Common fare? Divergent roads design Detour - Free Passage signs should read Beware! Lest Common Place ensigns allure To forge untrodden Avenue As One-Way streets likely procure Adversive Ways that lead askew The sense of bearings Common Sound Tread nary roads impending rue. There's surety in Common found. Converging paths the rightly pair... Best pay the toll to Common Ground. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
if common ground were not to be what then led me to thee... No. No one writes quite like Nan...as it should be... [and thanks for letting me share your nickname...] Karilea If I whisper, will you listen?... I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound. KRJ |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Nan, I tiptoe through your common ground Your common ground is quite profound. Lovely and *L* Sy |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
A kindly thanks to both of you, my dear friends... A ray of Sunshine and a Cheshire grin backatcha...  Nay, if our wits run the Wild-Goose chase, I am done: For thou hast more of the Wild-Goose in one of thy wits, Than I am sure I have in my whole f |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
"There's surety in Common found." Indeed there is, absolutely! Loved the poem, and the pic? Poetic justice. |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
"Best pay the toll to Common Ground." I don't quite know what boulevard/alley/avenue you took to end up here - but I'm glad you did - and I totally agree - very cleverly done ~S~ |
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John R Member
since 2000-12-14
Posts 141Toledo OH |
I love your voice. The archaic form is always a favorite of mine. Enjoyed this very much Nan. If a dream touches us, it exists to us as anything else that touches us. |
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RobertB Senior Member
since 1999-09-26
Posts 1104Champaign, IL |
ahhh common ground..... Robert if you can dream; you can fly...if you are flying; you are dreaming. |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
"What tolls betoken Common Fare... Lest Common Place ensigns allure... Adversive Ways that lead askew... There's surety in Common found... Best pay the toll to Common Ground." Loved it all Nan, but these lines, a piece of their own, stuck to my soul. jwesley [This message has been edited by jwesley (edited 12-16-2000).] |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Evening Nancy, I have never seen anyone write like you do, and am duly impressed. You are not only a master of the English language, you are also a master on how to write it. Well done Nan, well done. BCI |
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Poeminister Senior Member
since 2000-02-26
Posts 1862Regina SK; Canada |
Enjoyed this muchly. Nicely done. "...no single sound too rude upon thy slumber shall intrude, Our thoughts, our souls- O God above! In every deed shall mingle, love." -Poe |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Nan~ If that lovely picture depicts the road to Common Ground. Color me there ! BEAUTIFUL ! ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
I'm sooooo grateful that you folks are enjoying this... serenity - Thanks.. and it's not even a sonnet.. Wil - Thankya... All I know is that I took a wrong turn somewhere... and ended up right back where I started... John - I'm honored that you've visited my work so early in your Passionate career.. RobertB - Uncommon, isn't it??... jw - Like apple-cinnamon oatmeal, I hope.. BCI - Thankee, my friend... Aren't you supposed to be out on the highway paying tolls somewhere???.. Poe - I do appreciate your appreciation.. Marge - Thankya... and I pilfered the pic from the Greeting Card page.. |
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X Angel Senior Member
since 1999-11-07
Posts 1521Oregon |
Nan, I have so missed your lovely poetry! What a breath of fresh air to me tonight.  *hugs* H |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Thanks, H.... Hey... Shouldn't you be packing???... |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
thank you for this, Nan, it's absolutely wonderful......... "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." Winnie the Pooh |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Thanks muchly, Irish.. |
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