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 Sun 29 May 11 12:52 
 About time we had a poetry thread. - Ted

A verse from W H Auden...The Shield of Achilles.

Describing a hot, dusty Spanish square folowing a firing squad......

A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,
loitered about that vacancy.
A bird flew up to safety from his well aimed stone.

That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third
were axioms to him, who'd never heard
of any place where promises were kept,
or one could weep.....because another wept.

Ted

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 About time we had a poetry thread.  Ted 29 May 11 12:52
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Dog 29 May 11 13:29
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Zero 29 May 11 13:37
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Ted 29 May 11 15:06
 About time we had a poetry thread.  madf 29 May 11 16:13
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Clk Sec 29 May 11 16:29
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Roger. 29 May 11 16:48
 A Fine Poem for Times of Grief and..  Meldrew 29 May 11 17:03
 A Fine Poem for Times of Grief an..  Dog 29 May 11 17:21
 A Fine Poem for Times of Grief a..  Ted 29 May 11 18:04
 A Fine Poem for Times of Grief a..  CGNorwich 29 May 11 22:29
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Zero 29 May 11 18:58
 About time we had a poetry thread.  madf 29 May 11 19:22
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Slidingpillar 29 May 11 19:39
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Ted 29 May 11 22:00
 About time we had a poetry thread..  Dog 29 May 11 22:05
 About time we had a poetry thread.  .... 29 May 11 22:10
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Londoner 30 May 11 00:02
 About time we had a poetry thread.  hawkeye 30 May 11 00:29
 About time we had a poetry thread.  .... 30 May 11 00:41
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Pat 30 May 11 06:05
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Dog 30 May 11 09:41
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Roger. 30 May 11 19:00
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Dog 30 May 11 19:03
 About time we had a poetry thread..  Zero 30 May 11 19:09
 About time we had a poetry threa..  Crankcase 30 May 11 20:34
 About time we had a poetry thr..  Londoner 30 May 11 21:43
 About time we had a poetry th..  Ted 30 May 11 23:39
 About time we had a poetry t..  Roger. 31 May 11 09:41
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 About time we had a poetry thread.  helicopter 1 Jun 11 10:41
 About time we had a poetry thread.  Mapmaker 1 Jun 11 11:23
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