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I see a windmill
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I see a windmill |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla 
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I see a windmill I am an old Don Quixote Charging on passé pyrrhic crafts. And I hate the free form windmills Of pate sophisticated drafts. They log the acid cryptic pen Send fog onto the naive glen Hide the simple and mystify And Vail the true. Of mice and men. They groom readers with abstract themes. Spin innuendos picayune Swim in a jumbled jamboree And feed you symbols with a spoon. They, dare to heap neglect on me. The song I sing, their requiem. I stand in answer, lance in hand And water, on the best of them. I do not want to change my way, Nor do I care of what they say. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Interesting! I'm going to be re-reading this a few times. I think I'm getting to the meaning, but I don't want to rush to a conclusion. (I'm still a bit sleepy from the past few days!)  ------------------ Denise |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Tilting at Windmills Dulcinea by sheltered wood resides A maiden in consort of giant quest. Impervious, her tatted cloak beside Protective shield envelops knightly rest. For she beholds with perspicacious eye That flailing arms of augur's giant sail Are vanes of windmill's whirligigs a-sky. Befall Quixote's chivalrous regale. She deftly hones his oaken lance each day Thence sabred knight, his kingdom he'll defend And in his fervid crusade he shall splay Each vanquished giant three sheets to the wind  |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Ah, nicely written.....but I myself like to live life on the edge, gamble with free verse as well as rhyme and rhthym. I guess it all depends on ones likes. I myself think for my more sensual stuff, free verse adds to it and allows it to move freer and truer. But each to their own, eh? ------------------ "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" ~Albert Camus |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Fourth stanza, fourth line - touche! |
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Julie Senior Member
since 1999-08-20
Posts 739Houston, TX |
I sincerely admire your ability to write like this...VERY CLEVER! ------------------ Julie ------------------------- ..."to thine own self be true." >William Shakespeare |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Couldn't count on a better bunch. My sincere thanks for your responces. Love you all. |
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Isis Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296Sunny Queensland |
I too, admire such ability and talent! ------------------ Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. ~Isis~ |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Isis, A special thanks to you. I read each reply and think them through and thouugh. |
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