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Open Poetry #38

Claire Would Know

Beau de L'air
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since 2006-08-03

Posts 105
Middlesex, England

0 posted 2006-08-08 12:09 PM

This is to my favourite English Lit colleague, who we would call a "teapot" on account of the pose she most typically strikes when she's doing her job. The tum tee tum tempo is deliberate.

Claire Would Know

A bustle here, then a skip and hop
Here comes Claire as she flies aloft;
A wash of maidens, in her paper trail
Clamour like gulls, not quite as pale.

Here comes Claire as she minds the shop,
Girls below and girls on top,
Where do they go, to the left and right?
Would Claire not know? I think she might;
Claire is radiant; on my eye, so light.

DG 2006.
Portraits of pals

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2006-08-09 10:28 AM

I can just see her standing with her hand on her hip. *S* Welcome to Passions! *S*

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

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Deep in the heart

2 posted 2006-08-09 11:02 AM

I'll bet Claire WOULD know

seraphin
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since 2000-09-24

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Michigan

3 posted 2006-08-09 11:06 AM

This is excellent.

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

4 posted 2006-08-09 11:09 AM

these portraits are cute ~~
M

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

5 posted 2006-08-09 11:18 AM

Beau~
Tum diddle diddle
Tum diddle dee
I'm leaving a *Huglet*
Just for thee~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
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Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

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Texas, USA

6 posted 2006-08-09 01:11 PM

I enjoy the lightness of this one.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Beau de L'air
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since 2006-08-03

Posts 105
Middlesex, England

7 posted 2006-08-09 01:24 PM

You are all very sweet. Is it a serious poem? Obviously not, but the point is that nursery rhymes are SO INCREDIBLE!!!!!! if you have any sensibility at all.

M, huglet gratefully received, and returned with interest.

Bd'L

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