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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:18 AM Original message |
The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/18/08 |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. Heaney, Nobel Laureate and one of the 20th century's great Irish poets, said this about "Bogland": |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. My dear BlueIris! |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Thanks! Heaney's "bog poems" are some of the best poems ever! |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. Kick. |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Kick. |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. Kick. |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
7. A tasty poem about BOGS, anyone? |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. Kick, in case this was more of a Saturday poem than a Friday poem. |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
9. I missed this one before |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yes, I have read the Beowulf translation. I even have a CD of him reading it. |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. ooh, a cd would be much better. |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Gilgamesh, yes, Gawain, no. |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. so how did you get so wise in the way of words, grasshopper? |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 04:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Uh, let's just say I picked something less-than-marketable to get a degree in. |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 05:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. a friend of mine... |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 09:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. As much as I would have liked to attend a different college at the time, (don't ask) |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. This is the perfect poem for |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 09:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Awww. Sure. |
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