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Re: flotsam

Post by Heather » Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:05 pm

Remember matty, but don't forget to dance yourself.

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Re: flotsam

Post by Neville Briggs » Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:51 pm

Goodonya Matt.

Einstein could never figure out a theory of everything, where unity and diversity existed at the same time and place. That's because he was looking at the material not the personal. Stephen Hawking couldn't either. He said so.
That's why they're not poets. ;) :)
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Re: flotsam

Post by Glenny Palmer » Sat Feb 02, 2013 10:15 pm

there’s a dance you can dance while watching
it’s the dance you embrace in your sleep
where the world is your own entirely
and the melody yours to keep

there’s a time you can time forever
yet a time that will wait for you
where your world is restored sublimely
and the melody old, blooms new
The purpose of my life is to serve as a warning to others.

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Re: flotsam

Post by Maureen K Clifford » Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:57 am

Beautiful Matt - waltz on.

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Re: flotsam

Post by Terry » Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:06 am

Perhaps in an outback Ballroom Matt - no music just wonderful silence.

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Re: flotsam

Post by manfredvijars » Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:08 am

Not meaning to rain on anyone's parade, but just a reminder that this is still a Bush Poetry Forum - Rhyme-n-Metre please ... :D

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Re: flotsam

Post by Neville Briggs » Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:52 pm

There are six lines of trochaic tetrameter, so Matt's poem is metred.

the lines..you should dance and... and just remember.. are repeated, which makes a repeat sound. Rhyme is a repeat sound, so the poem has rhyme .


Voila ! rhyme and metre. No problems Manfred. :) ;)
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Re: flotsam

Post by Bob Pacey » Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:07 pm

Never thought I would use one of my sons favourite sayings Neville.



" Yeah Sure Ted "



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Re: flotsam

Post by Neville Briggs » Mon Feb 04, 2013 2:15 pm

I didn't know that there was movement at the mountain, for the word was passed on down that decreed " Thou must never use rhyme and metre in a subtle way when thou doest bush poetry " :geek:
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Re: flotsam

Post by manfredvijars » Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:31 pm

matt wrote:cheers Terry
umbrella deployed Manfred, or rather, drizabone donned :) ....I assure you no controversy provocation or disregard was intended
I get that matt - no worries ... :D

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