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Article #831391

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

#831391
From: tzod9964@gmail.c
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 21:23
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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.


I found this poem to be quite cogent...

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