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Huan Yi
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0 posted 2008-05-28 09:10 PM


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In deepest dark
You will come
Though I do not
Welcome your arrival

I will scowl
As I have before
Hoping intimidation
Is survival

Yet you again
Will then look on me
With such sad eyes
As would defang
The fiercest tiger

And this old cat
Will spend another night
Unable not to love you


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© Copyright 2008 John Pawlik - All Rights Reserved
Sunshine
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1 posted 2008-05-28 09:52 PM


Ok, this one likes me....

meow.




Robert E. Jordan
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2 posted 2008-05-28 09:58 PM


John,

This is very good.  I like it loads.

Bobby

2islander2
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3 posted 2008-05-29 02:35 AM


there are differents meanings here, this lady could be terrible too, I imagined during few second the death, but the end changed my point of view....

Interesting as always

   thanks
    yann

Huan Yi
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4 posted 2008-05-29 11:42 AM



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http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=20


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Thanks all for reading

John

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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5 posted 2008-05-29 07:15 PM


John... I absoloutely love this one from you .... I'm saving it to read it again

love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

JamesMichael
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6 posted 2008-05-29 07:44 PM


Enjoyed...James


Marchmadness
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7 posted 2008-05-31 02:27 AM


great writing, John.
                 Ida

OwlSA
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8 posted 2008-05-31 01:45 PM


Love your modernised version which in no way encroaches on Keats' original which I have always loved.  

- Owl

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