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Re: PPB: A July Day / Eben E. Rexford

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From: parnellos.pizza@
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 23:34
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NancyGene wrote:

> On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 8:04:16 PM UTC, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 3:57:27 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
>> > On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 7:05:04 PM UTC, George Dance wrote:
>
>> > > > > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> > > > > A July Day, by Eben E. Rexford
>> > > > > [...]
>> > > > > A glory wraps the hills, and seems
>> > > > > To weave an atmosphere of dreams
>> > > > > [...]
>> > > > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-july-day-eben-e-rexford.html
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Picture: William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Summer at Shinnecock Hills,
>> > > > > 1891. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
>> > > > What a boring, sing-song poem!
>> > > Look who's talking.
>> > >
>> > > You and Michael Pendragon specialize in dreary sing-song, second handed rhymes, Nancy Gene.
>> > You defend a poem that you didn't read by attacking Michael's and our poems?
>> Not really.

> You are "not really" defending the poem

That's right, but the poem is just as good or better than the bland sing-song second handed poetry you and Michael Pendragon churn out, Nancy Gene.

HTH and HAND.

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