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Hi Tony
A century just flew past my eyes, on the back of your flashing sonnet, great stuff. Thank you for posting 
posted by
lionladroar
on January 14, 2007 at 6:06 PM
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Thanks you three.
Whinge, ST and RI - sounds like cases in a hospital ward, dunnit. Sorry, been out all day - finally about to do today's poem, at 12.45 at night, having just finished and printed off a short story for a competition that must be posted early tomorrow morning. It's a hard life the writer's life - not.
posted by
Antonionioni
on January 14, 2007 at 4:37 PM
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Tonyz.."the war was a boer" - what a great lead-in!
great illustration of how time has marched on, for good and for bad...
posted by
Rumor
on January 14, 2007 at 10:55 AM
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I like this bit-sized history. . .
It's true, history will march on, no matter how much we all engage in arguments with little point and less answer.
By the way, stateside it is Martin Luther King, Jr. day on Monday. A few quotes by him, if I can share:
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
"A lie cannot live."
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
(Yikes! We're really in trouble in the U.S. Pray for us)
"A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard."
posted by
stbond
on January 14, 2007 at 8:49 AM
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No probs, Tony, amazing I can squeeze a compliment out of me in my
condition - we ran out of coffee, I've only had one miserly cup of tea, as opposed to the 2 to 3 fine cups of java to jump start me today.
I have lots of assignments to do for my Interior Design course, 5 in total, I thought it was going to be all frilly, silly camp stuff I'd learn on this course, it's not, it's bloody hard work.
posted by
CringeintheUSA
on January 14, 2007 at 4:03 AM
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Thankyou La Whinge!
posted by
Antonionioni
on January 14, 2007 at 3:47 AM
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I really enjoyed that Tony, f'n clever!
posted by
CringeintheUSA
on January 14, 2007 at 3:41 AM
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Thanks Najwa and Afzal!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on January 14, 2007 at 3:02 AM
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That's the big question .
posted by
afzal50
on January 13, 2007 at 11:34 PM
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TONY,
,you have a great senses and you write the fine words in short lanes but it is just perfect and remarkable for sure ,,,,,
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,,,,,najwa the stranger
posted by
NAJWA
on January 13, 2007 at 8:54 PM
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Thanks Troosha - hope I didn't get too hard on Moon - tell him
I didn't mean it in a nasty way. Anyway, people are entitled to think what they want - it's none of my business.
posted by
Antonionioni
on January 13, 2007 at 1:25 PM
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That's telling it, Tel!
posted by
Antonionioni
on January 13, 2007 at 1:23 PM
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Tony
You sure did condense a great deal of time, evolution, and controversy into one short sonnet. But it worked and, as usual, you did it well.
posted by
Troosha
on January 13, 2007 at 12:37 PM
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Tony
Omar said it all a long, long time ago. Even before I was born! LOL
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about; but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.
With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd --
"I came like Water and like Wind I go."
Need one say more???
el filosofical Tel
posted by
ariel70
on January 13, 2007 at 12:25 PM
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