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Teresa...This is the most pleasurable thread I have ever followed on any forum...So many Poems...So many words... Crafted by supreme wordsmiths...My new folder is bursting with the contributions from you all...

I admire the art of writing words that ’scan’...descriptive words that tell stories whether in Rhyme or not... My preference are Lyrics to songs...which are another form of poetry...But I was particularly struck by words that you wrote in the introduction to your thread...
And I quote;["touched me deeply at a time when I was looking at the smoke curling up from my blown out birthday cake candles and being somehow surprised that I had actually arrived in my 60’s and that my life was just as fleeting as that smoke!! That I was now looking down the long road of ’getting old’."]unquote...

I am now going to quote a similar sentiment from a song by one of my favourite Lyricists...the late Johnny Mercer...quote; ["The days of wine and roses laughed, and ran away, like a child at play...
Over meadow land toward a closing door, a door marked ’Never More’, that wasn’t there before"...]unquote...

Teresa... My comparing your words to Johnny Mercer’s is the finest compliment that I personally could pay you...Trev.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. -- George Burns

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20/03/2006 23:03:00

Teresa Johnson nee Mc Monagle
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Trevor I want to say a sincere thank you for your kind compliments. I am truly touched that you said what you did and graciously accept it as a gift. Its my birthday on Wednesday and although I’m giving myself a fortnight in the south of Spain for it I know that there are some things that money cannot buy...your gift to me is a case in point*

Your words also reminded me that I have got a couple of pieces I wrote years ago. One of them was in actual fact written as possible lyrics. I have never shared them, never had the need to, and I have noticed a couple of people have vaguely mentioned writing their own poetry?

What do you say we move the goal posts and include some of our own poets on this thread?? I am willing to stick my neck out if you all are..I would have to wait till I got back to dig them out but if anyone wants to start the ball rolling then jump in!!! Hope the thread is still going though??

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21/03/2006 02:56:24

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I have noticed a couple of people have vaguely mentioned writing their own poetry?

What do you say we move the goal posts and include some of our own poets on this thread?? I am willing to stick my neck out if you all are..I would have to wait till I got back to dig them out but if anyone wants to start the ball rolling then jump in!!! Hope the thread is still going though??

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Just do it, you don’t need permission.

I for one look forward to your prose.

Murray

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21/03/2006 08:05:28

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Morning Everyone...Just a quicky before I forget...The original poem "Days of Wine and Roses, was as follows;

VITAE SUMMA BREVIS SPEM NOS VETET INCOHARE LONGAM

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate;
I think they have no portion in us after
we pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
our path emerges for a while, then closes
within a dream.

-- Ernest Dowson, 1867-1900 --

[The title translates, from the Latin, as
’The brief sum of life forbids us the hope of enduring long’
and is from a work by Horace]

P.S...That’s yer lot fer na..I’m off for me baff...Nursie is tapping her foot with impatience...TC

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21/03/2006 09:57:49

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....Oh!... before I forget...Happy birthday Teresa (noh)...may you have many more..Enjoy your trip to spain...Bon Voyage...Trev.

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