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Post by donavan on Aug 23, 2020 18:34:13 GMT
Once in awhile, if I may and because I want to, I will still pop in here to say things likeΒ Why it is donavan Day!
Smile quietly on the outsideΒ
and
Really grin within...
Have a donavan Day! Yeah, why not, you know it makes sense. π x
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Post by Mare on Aug 24, 2020 18:28:44 GMT
HAVE A GOOD SLEEP,
FOR TOMMOROW IS ANOTHER donavan DAY!
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Post by donavan on Aug 24, 2020 18:44:59 GMT
π± π π π±
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Post by Mare on Aug 24, 2020 23:22:29 GMT
That's a lot of 8 balls, son!
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Post by donavan on Aug 25, 2020 1:24:11 GMT
I like that
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Post by miles on Aug 27, 2020 0:55:06 GMT
Happy Donavan Day!
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Post by Mare on Aug 28, 2020 0:20:31 GMT
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Aug 28, 2020 1:22:06 GMT
What do you call those treats--don-dons?
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Post by donavan on Aug 29, 2020 19:44:07 GMT
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow β You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand β How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep β while I weep! O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
- Edgar Allan Poe
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Aug 30, 2020 1:53:50 GMT
Now I know where the word poetry came from.
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Post by Mare on Aug 30, 2020 19:30:33 GMT
Happy donavan Day!
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Post by donavan on Aug 30, 2020 22:09:58 GMT
Yeah, nice. Sort of haiku. Not sure. Don't really like that style. Don't really understand it. But yeah for some people. Go for it. And thanks for the don day wishes.
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Post by Mare on Aug 31, 2020 15:25:09 GMT
Yeah, nice. Sort of haiku. Not sure. Don't really like that style. Don't really understand it. But yeah for some people. Go for it. And thanks for the don day wishes. That was the first poem I memorized as a child, donavan! I loved the mood and mental imagery it brought up for me. I lived close to the beach at the time, maybe a mile away, and my Aunt lived up at the top of the hill above me. You could see the fog rolling in from her home. Down on the pretty large concrete balcony of my parent's apartment, you could feel the fog on your face, breathe it in. It enveloped you and hushed the noises around you. Sometimes you couldn't even see the little playground across the alley. Now, driving in the fog-that is terrorizing. P.S. I started reading E.A. Poe at about age ten, when I also started Bradbury. I have always been taken by both authors, particularly Poe's prose. I also read lots of poetry in college, where I became a fan of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake...Alexander Pope's "The Rape Of The Lock" I think I studied in two classes- Satire and the literature of his period. Read lots of American poetry, as well. I need to start reading, again.
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Post by Mare on Aug 31, 2020 15:35:54 GMT
Wait, where did your Poetry Thread idea go? Yes, that's a good idea!
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Post by donavan on Aug 31, 2020 16:03:34 GMT
Wait, where did your Poetry Thread idea go? Β Yes, that's a good idea! Thought it was a daft idea, so pulled it. Oops!
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