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0 posted 2007-08-07 01:01 AM


Imagine a forest in an island dream
where spinning hands tickedy tock
wasteland songs in backward streams
filling tea cups with pickling brine.
    
Rooks in mad flight crickety cross
checkerboard rivers to watch the Ivory Queen
sucking on prawns, a common feast
for knightly barrons with bee stung feet.

All aboard the Patagonia Choo Choo,
strap on your crampons for Perito Moreno.
Mind the penguins in the crosswalk,
Watty's little engine thinks it can.


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1 posted 2007-08-07 01:10 AM


Like it... still it feels a little staggered almost like you stopped halfway through.

Still good none the less.

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2 posted 2007-08-07 06:45 AM


Thanks, Seeker72. Good catch, it is a work in progress.


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3 posted 2007-08-10 09:05 PM


This poem was really cool. I didn't fully understand some things such as, "Perito Moreno". But good write nonetheless.

"One last drink and the bottle breaks, returning us to the dust from whence we came"

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4 posted 2007-08-11 12:18 PM


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crampons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier

The true beauty of poetry....we learn.

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5 posted 2007-08-13 02:49 PM


very nice definitely could tell it is a work in progress I will enjoy reading the remaining verses when this is complete.
For some unknown reason made me instantly go to Steven King's Dark Tower Series especially
"wasteland songs in backward streams
filling tea cups with pickling brine."
and also

"Rooks in mad flight crickety cross
checkerboard rivers to watch the Ivory Queen
sucking on prawns, a common feast
for knightly barrons with bee stung feet.

All aboard the Patagonia Choo Choo,"

Very "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"-ish http://www.thedarktower.net/browning/text
at least for me anyways if you haven't read this poem I think you will enjoy it very much I haven't met anyone who doesn't.

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