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Nan

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since 1999-05-20

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Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

0 posted 1999-06-10 10:08 AM

(a villanelle)

Our lives could be just as we've planned;
Each day's forecast our own devise
If we were granted Sleight of Hand.

Divergency we'd not withstand
In staid agenda naught reprise
Our lives could be just as we've planned

Exigency meets our command
Dare not eschew nor compromise
If we are granted Sleight of Hand

Such stringency invites remand
Contentious staunch sinew belies
Our lives shan't be just as we've planned

Felicity in fain so grand
In dreams undoffed we'll fantasize
If we are granted Sleight of Hand

Existence swept as grain of sand
Fulfillment appetence descries
Our lives shan't be just as we've planned
If we are granted Sleight of Hand

[This message has been edited by Nan (edited 06-10-99).]

Alicat
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since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

1 posted 1999-06-10 07:06 PM

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!!!
Nan, I am most fortuned indeed to have met you, as you have demonstrated prosaic forms unknown to this oft-dull mentality. Thank you most kindly, m'lady!

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Le Jongleur Aspirante

Fred Hobbs
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since 1999-06-08

Posts 329
Tallahassee, Florida, US

2 posted 1999-06-10 09:05 PM

Nan,
What Allistair said and more. You have the varied skills and vocabulary to teach us all something.

fh

Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

3 posted 1999-06-10 10:20 PM

Great job, Nan! These things are hard to write but this is excellent!

Wolfgang
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since 1999-05-24

Posts 124
Hamilton, Ont. Canada

4 posted 1999-06-12 09:23 PM

this is in a class all of it's own.
You did a great job with it. Lot of thought from you and for the reader.

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

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Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

5 posted 1999-06-12 09:53 PM

Big deal. Any superhuman, brilliant, one-of-a-kind, educated, articulate genius could have written this!

ashlerr
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since 1999-06-11

Posts 23
chino hills, ca usa

6 posted 1999-06-13 06:46 AM

balladeer has a unique way of saying your poem was very good. i really respect the choice in style in which you chose to write this peom. i havent read much of your work but i definatley look forward to see what specialties you come up with next.

Ron

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since 1999-05-19

Posts 8669
Michigan, US

7 posted 1999-06-13 07:29 AM

Reminds me of Sun Tzu's "Art Of War." Except on a grander scale, and much more beautifully said. Who says poetry can't cross Nationalistic boundaries? Taoist philosophy, written in impeccable English, cast in a French format...

Tim
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since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

8 posted 1999-07-28 05:25 PM

I am sorry I did not see this before...
wonderful...

leelew
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since 1999-07-10

Posts 89
highmount,ny,usa

9 posted 1999-07-28 05:28 PM

Nan....this was fantastic!

IsabelleSkye
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since 1999-06-27

Posts 253

10 posted 1999-07-28 09:29 PM

OK my dear you've hidden all these oldies away....I'm gonna hafta go archive digging LOL
This was neat, now if I only knew the rules to writing a villanelle....
I.Skye

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"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself,
than to be crowded on a velvet cushion."
.....Henry David Thoreau

TomMark
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since 2007-07-27

Posts 2133
LA,CA

11 posted 2008-01-11 05:35 PM

of course it is good.
enjoyed the read
TM

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