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Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05
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Bewilderment , USA

0 posted 2004-04-01 07:33 PM


No statues sculpt', no iron wrought
no bronze, perhaps, but baby shoes,
for neither fame nor fortune sought
could still the voice they did not choose.

Divergence from a different path
for them was never in the stars,
imaginations' way was lit,
no destination lay too far.

To visionaries, time and tide
saw fit to simply fade away,
in celebration of their lives,
a toast for all the fools today.



© Copyright 2004 William E.Kleist - All Rights Reserved
Grover
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since 2004-01-27
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London, ON, Canada
1 posted 2004-04-01 07:39 PM


Here's to you!
Duncan
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2 posted 2004-04-01 07:42 PM


"To visionaries, time and tide
saw fit to simply fade away,
in celebration of their lives,
a toast for all the fools today."

I'll join you in that salute...  

Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
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Listening to every heart
3 posted 2004-04-01 08:15 PM




May I join in?  I brought our cap...

passing shadows
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displaced
4 posted 2004-04-02 02:22 AM


I'm in!
Dr.Moose1
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5 posted 2004-04-02 08:33 PM


Grover,
Thanks. Clink! Back atcha!
Doc
Duncan,
Thanks. In the fishing world, they're kinda like the ones that got away.
Doc
Sunshine,
You, my dear, may join in anytime. That hat would look good for most occasions.
Doc
passingshadows,
Thanks, (doffing hat here).Though meanings change over time, so do perceptions of those meanings. Myself, I'm proud to be a dullard,
and leave the running of more important things to those who are more infinately qualified to run our great country right into the ground (if they haven't already sold that to some foreign interest).
Excuse me for rambling.
Doc

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