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Article #829470Re: PPB: July / Robert F. Skillings
From: HC
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 10:39
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 10:39
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On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 1:34:49 PM UTC-4, HC wrote: > On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 1:25:50 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote: > > On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 5:13:02 PM UTC, HC wrote: > > > On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 12:54:45 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote: > > > > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog: > > > > July, by Robert F. Skillings > > > > > > > > A very pleasant mouth is this > > > > To be in a country town. > > > > The sunlight doth the foliage kiss > > > > [...] > > > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html > > > Purty Mouth > > > https://youtu.be/nLEL-Gewt6E > > The phrase undoubtedly meant something different when Mr. Skillings wrote it in the 1800s. Perhaps he means a smile? We see that he was against rum and tobacco, so he had to get his thrills somewhere. > Iād never heard of Robert F. Skillings, so when I read the first line of his poem about > what a very pleasant mouth July is, Purty Mouth was the first thing that came to mind. > According to Skillings, the sunlight kisses the foliage with that mouth. Sounds hot. Do you think it possible that Skillings wrote the word month rather than mouth, but his editor/publisher mistook the n for a u?
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