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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA 
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All righty, you guys... Here's my new poem - I figured I had to write something for this workshop - since so many of you are posting old stuff....  .. I did post it in Open #7 though - I couldn't resist - The forum was empty - It wasn't my fault...COMMON GROUND 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. Then there's my archives - You guys are probably really sick of this poem by now, but it's one of my very first, and I'm pretty attached to it... Plus - it fits the assignment rather well... SERENDIPITY From sheltered berth embarks the maiden sail With harbored spirit innocent and frail. As windward breath uplifts the halcyon veil, Alluring barques enrapture seafare's tale. Whence haven's port casts sanctity aside, Presumptuous youth cavorts a vernal tide. E'er wanderlust capricious hearts abide, The sea's unyielding sovereignty defied. Full mainsails prance midsummer's vast blue-green, Beguiling wanton ventures unforeseen. Felicity the guide as sloops careen Through maelstroms in waters once serene. Blithe wisdom falls; the robust tumults wane. Intrepid sails eye placid shores again. Now learned navigators ne'er to feign As fore 'n' aft, great journeys yet remain. Hibernal mariner with white-capped lore Of raging tempests in those days of yore, Aye, come about to tranquil deep before that beck, "Red-Right-Return" forever moor. Waft every crest upon your destined sea. Embrace the Wave of Serendipity, Lest its elusive arcane ecstasy Refurl with sail for all eternity. There ya have it... |
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ESP Member Elite
since 2000-01-25
Posts 2556Floating gently on a cloud.... |
Well, I haven't seen either of them before and I think they are great! Love and hugs, Lizzie  "Poetry is the true expression of my soul, it is my ultimate means of communication. It is my rainbow of delight." |
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Not A Poet Member Elite
since 1999-11-03
Posts 3885Oklahoma, USA |
WOW!! Now it's perfectly clear why you're the teacher here. You certainly assigned yourself some complicated rhyme schemes. I can see why you feel attached to Serendipity. I don't think I had seen it before so it's new to me and I loved it. Pete |
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warmhrt Senior Member
since 1999-12-18
Posts 1563 |
I echo Pete's comment, and add another Wow! Exquisite poetry, Nan. I especially liked the line "Embrace the Wave of Serendipity" in the second poem. Yes, I, too, can see why you're the teacher, Kris the poet's pen...gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name ~ Shakespeare |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Nan. I had not read either of these. Thank you for posting them. They are both wonderful and great examples for a student of poetry Liz |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
Nan after reading a poem from you, I'm always stunned with your vocabulary and after translating in total awe, as I am now. |
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Not A Poet Member Elite
since 1999-11-03
Posts 3885Oklahoma, USA |
Munda, I might add that the same thing applies to those of us who speak English as our primary (or even only) language. She can be awesome for sure. ~~Pete sucks up to the teacher a little here~~  Pete |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Nan, Wow!! Hadn't seen these before and think they are great!!! Know for sure why you are the teacher. Looking forward to learning more from you. Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end. --Michael W. Smith |
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son of man Member
since 2000-04-25
Posts 125 |
certainly on another level than myself. your style here is strange to me. perhaps this style posesses a label of some sort? your work here has been enjoyed. |
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