Floccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Heart
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Robert J. Lindley, 3-25-2018
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Additional Note- This poem is titled, Floccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Heart
and is the , Second of Three Poem Trilogy....
I found this one much , much harder to compose and truly suspect that the third and final poem will be a very hard and laborious task to complete.
I have spent four days on this second poem because this subject is near and dear to my heart and is a very important one methinks.
I so hope you may read, enjoy and add your thoughts on this second effort as so many of you have done so the first poem.
You have my sincere thanks my friends.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Heart
(Second of Three Poem Trilogy)
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Winter blowing in fierce, bitter cold now lingers
soon the "old and useless" will meet their destined fate,
at Winter-child's hands, gun, itchy trigger fingers
and infantile minds that so dearly love to hate.
Ah, but the "old and useless" stood their sacred ground
with true honor, pride and its time tested displays,
where else can such gratuitous treasures be found
or joy and freedom be had in these weeping days?
The "old and useless", in rightly honored places
would journeying spirits find their defending grip,
souls weakened without dismay on their bright faces,
from whence came those packs of jackals to tear and rip?
Ah, but world's powers feed upon lust and deep greed
with fever pitch tries to kill foundations of trust
using false values think power is all they need,
vanquishing the "old and useless" becomes a must!
As new dawn emerges, up sprouts new and green shoots
with light absorbing leaves they sing loud as they glow
some are outraged, change to put on their stomping boots,
others joining that course, seeing how the winds blow.
Burnt midnight oil, ink splashes on receptive page
as poetic hearts and souls stand firm on solid ground,
furious, they write and tremble in aching rage
with shields held higher while knowing their cause is sound.
Winter blowing in fierce, bitter cold now lingers
soon the "old and useless" will meet their destined fate,
at Winter-child's hands, gun, itchy trigger fingers
and infantile minds that so dearly love to hate.
Ah, but the "old and useless" stood their sacred ground
with true honor, pride and its time tested displays,
where else can such gratuitous treasures be found
or joy and freedom be had in these weeping days?
Robert J. Lindley, 3-25-2018
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Make of this what you will,
I give thus and surely shall send no bill
Yet in my poet's heart my soul oft grieves
for the Autumn colors not the decaying leaves
For the heart that yearns to write and truly give
and the mortal soul that writes to live
With inked symbols and a mind tired of toil
wading through worlds filled with pride and hidden turmoil
I write with purpose to give to others, not to take
tho' oft my poet's heart over burning coals some gladly rake.
Note- This poem is titled, Floccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Heart
and is the , Second of Three Poem Trilogy....
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2018
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:05:00 PM
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Rob, congrats on your awesome poem. Well deserved POTD...Hugs
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Date: 3/26/2018 3:00:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. Always a pleasure to read your comments, have your support and read your wonderful poetry. Especially so on this poem...
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Date: 3/26/2018 1:56:00 PM
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A big congrats on POTD Robert, a good piece of justice here! So when do we start rolling out the tanks?(lol)
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:58:00 PM
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Thank you again my friend. You are one of those very talented poets that has been my honor to learn from , be friends with and enjoy the support of. Our several collaborations have been a true blessing and great inspiration to me!
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Date: 3/26/2018 12:10:00 PM
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Equally as wonderful as part one Dear Robert and congratulations for POTD honors...
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:55:00 PM
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Thank you again my friend. I am lucky to have found this poetry site back when I did, as I was just about ready to give up writing poetry back then. Since then ,my journey continues and hopefully will do so for years to come
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Date: 3/26/2018 11:58:00 AM
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This site offers a voice to poets fledgling to accomplished, and there are so many opportunities to improve. Poetry Publishers are in it for what will sell - as almost every product useless or worthy. We have become a very shallow society, I guess. Congratulations!!!
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:51:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. You hit the nail on the head with your comments. So true, this site does give more inspiration and support by way of talented and generous poets helping others. I was blessed to have found it when I did.
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Hey, congrats on POTD!
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:49:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. Quite the surprise to find this poem received it and a wonderful gift it is. As the message being delivered is what is truly important. We without any doubt in my mind have the very best poets posting on the internet. I have learned so much since my arrival here and it is due to studying poets here far more skilled than I my friend.
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Date: 3/26/2018 10:50:00 AM
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A beautiful chant style poem...with a message too...Congratulations my friend...Good to see you here...All the best Robert
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:46:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. Much appreciate your support and comments my friend. The message is what is truly important, I being only the vehicle to get it out with these three poems. I just hope that the third and final poem of this trilogy(currently just stared), does not disappoint.
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Date: 3/26/2018 9:16:00 AM
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Congratulations Robert for your well deserved POTD honors for your impressive poem. Warmest wishes, my friend! ~Susan
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:43:00 PM
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Thank you my dear friend. And for your support and advice as well. Another example of the great poets and friendly support given me by poets here over the years. Which is exactly what makes this internet poetry site so special and far better than any others, IMHO.
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Date: 3/26/2018 9:00:00 AM
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congratulations for getting featured. Joshua.
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:41:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. I am very pleased that this important subject has gotten more views and consideration with the POTD presentation having gave it new viewers!
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Date: 3/26/2018 8:50:00 AM
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Congrats!!! Robert on POTD!...stick to your guns my friend...^WW^
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Date: 3/26/2018 2:39:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. My guns I keep clean and loaded. For thar bez bear in dem thar woods.lol Currently have started the third and final poem of this trilogy. Pressure is on to do justice and greater clarity with the final presentation. I hope my muse , does not take a siesta on me.
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Date: 3/26/2018 8:00:00 AM
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Slowly but surely, we will all find the tar pits. Even though it may not be in fashion, i will continue to write the only way I know how. I write for therapy and for fun. I want people to like it but if they don't, Oh well! I love reading your poetry because of your style, form and content. Putting it on the soup, is publishing it to a degree. Congratulations on POTD, Robert.
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Date: 3/26/2018 8:47:00 AM
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Thank you my friend. Points well taken my friend. We each have just one life--so why give so much control over to these mental midgets and allow them to say what is good and what is no longer great? I truly think they are sacrificing the hen to grab the golden eggs, with no thought as to the future and little to no regard for the past and the legacies of the classic poets that form poetry's foundation.
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Date: 3/26/2018 7:55:00 AM
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Congrats on POTD my friend..
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Date: 3/26/2018 8:44:00 AM
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Thank you my friend. I am very pleased that this poem and its message has been thus honored with POTD. My thought is why are we poets letting these modern poetry publishers have so much control over what we write? I refuse to do so..
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Date: 3/26/2018 5:58:00 AM
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Congratulations Robert on POTD. Well deserved. An interesting and meaningful topic , although I know nothing about the tastes of today's publishers regarding poetry. Regards...george
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Date: 3/26/2018 8:41:00 AM
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Thank you my friend. Yes, I truly believe it is an interesting and important topic. As poets we are to pose questions and give opinions on subjects about life, love,and all the human existence in this world, etc. The fact that so very few can so manipulate the vast majority of poets into adopting a new modern style they have chosen to be the one that they will publish is giving far, far too much power to the worms , IMHO. I AND AS THE COMMENTS ARE NOW SHOWING--MANY OTHER POETS- ARE FED UP WITH THAT REALITY.
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So good to see this impressive poem getting POTD Robert, Congratulations....Maria
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Date: 3/26/2018 5:56:00 AM
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Thank you so much my friend. I am shocked and very pleased to receive POTD and with that honor perhaps have this poem and its message receive a wider audience of readers. I have put more into these two poems, than I have in any other poem this year....
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Date: 3/26/2018 3:26:00 AM
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As with music, poetry has the popular AND the good, and they are rarely the same thing! Lightweight stuff is liked (apparently), while more cerebral stuff gets left on the margins. What you say is true, Robert! Glad to see this poem win POTD! Awesome!
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Thank you again my friend. This is indeed a very pleasant surprise to receive POTD honors with this second poem, and the first poem of this trilogy made the 31st spot on the best new poems list. Now comes the hardest one to compose, the third and final poem of this series. I hope it can hold the mark my friend.
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Date: 3/25/2018 5:40:00 PM
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Few realize the importance and urgency needed to fight what is being portrayed and awashed on this generation; not to dwell again too much on the Romantics but they and others virtually sacrificed themselves for mankind's sake; now all their efforts are being reversed in various ways, one big one starting with art; to not think as individuals for the better of the many, but to do as you're told or else ---- just like the Pre-Romantic era. This way control and manipulation are more effective.
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Date: 3/25/2018 8:16:00 PM
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Indeed. Not to honor the sacrifices endured by those poets that gave us such beauty and meaningful verse is truly a travesty. Yet that is the current state of affairs as dictated by modern publishers, IMHO. WHEN UNIVERSITIES STOP TEACHING COURSES ON SHAKESPEARE YOU KNOW THE SWORD HAS BEEN PLUNGED IN VERY DEEP.. Truly a sad state and definitely one that needs to be corrected my friend.. Question is, how long will we continue to be dictated to and manhandled by these unappreciative modern poetry publisher slugs that exercise unjust control??
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Date: 3/25/2018 4:02:00 PM
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Outstanding, Robert! Very profound and insightful verse! Bob H
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Thank you my wizened friend. My goal was to get the message across, reaffirmed and understood by the majority of the poem's readers. And hopefully stir more interest and discussion of this very important topic. For far too long we poets have turned a blind eye to this problem, don't you think? If not now, then when and how do we address it in our writings? So far I have seen no rebuttals to the message given in the two poems. I have started the first stanza of the third and final poem in this trilogy dealing with this important subject. As I perceived, each poem became a bit harder to compose but, as the old well digger said, "best dig a bit deeper -that water gotta be there". lol "And if it is I just gotta find it-I am damn thirsty" Do you think it matters if enough poets start writing poems about this travesty and contempt of poetry's heritage by these modern publishers?
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Date: 3/25/2018 3:33:00 PM
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The modernists quip the Romantics; 'All they talk about is flowers and trees...' When they fail to see that the Romantics were writing about what was behind it all; the very thing which publishers cherish (money over art) the older poets despised --- so they won't publish classical poets very easily. But Robert you are right to now speak up about it, they are destroying not only art but morality itself...
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Date: 3/25/2018 3:47:00 PM
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I do not disagree, yet the problem is that the newer poets are not even taught about poetry's foundation and the great poets of the past. Thus you and I are talking of things that they have not the slightest clue about. While schools no longer teach anything of poetry in the lower grades -it has even been almost entirely eliminated in high schools. Even when its not eliminated it is usually only given very minor lip service or else the publishers modern progressive and unfathomable way is heralded as great magnificently golden... Would be better if more poets chose to address this issue and perhaps even write poems about it, IMHO. Poems aimed at the modern day publishers that are deliberately leading this vilification and attack upon classical poetry and its foundation.
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Date: 3/25/2018 3:23:00 PM
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I think many of the poets here are much better poets than many published poets; some of the very best poems that I have ever read have come from this site. The publishers are largely geared towards what the public wants, not what it needs. The Romantics opened the door for the whole world when it came to individual freedom and citizenship; it is the very cause of democracy itself and is the reason why we have so many luxuries today.
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Date: 3/25/2018 3:30:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. Very well said and truly on the mark. I am always awed at the number of truly gifted and exceptional poets that I see posting here and trust me it is a massively greater number than at any of the few dozen other internet poetry sites I have visited. IN ALL TRUTH AND SINCERITY I BELIEVE THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST POETRY SITE ON THE WEB! That being primarily due that great number of gifted poets choosing to present their fine poetry here,IMHO.
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Date: 3/25/2018 1:51:00 PM
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A praiseworthy Undertaking Robert. The lack of educational lessons that stimulate the moral imagination of young minds is the reason for almost all problems. The McGuffy Reader was the core of ED beginning in the late 1800's. The FIFTH GRADE Reader covered oratory skills: Articulation, Inflections, Emphasis, Modulation & Poetic Pauses. There are 117 poems, Prose & Essays. Essays like "No Excellance Without Labor". &. "Moral Force" Poetry was the heart of early education. george
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Date: 3/25/2018 2:51:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. Yes,much of it goes back to the lack of education, but the modern day publishers are by and large university educated and are deliberately following unified agenda that seeks to belittle, weaken and destroy poetry's golden foundation.. All in the name of making a quick buck, IMHO. NOTHING WRONG IN SEEKING A BIGGER POETRY AUDIENCE BUT DOING SO BY ACCEPTING , HERALDING AND PROMOTING POEMS THAT ARE BY ANY DECENT STANDARD INFERIOR IS NOT THE PATH TO TAKE. Then additionally, those publishers ridicule and insult even the great and legendary poets too! Why are so many listening to such cretins, I ask..
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Date: 3/25/2018 1:47:00 PM
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In a world where people like Britney Spears become millionaires it's not surprising that fluff reigns over substance. On the flip side, we have to be careful not to condemn something simply because we may personally not like it. It's a new generation and for better or worse the new-fangled stuff appeals. It is what it is
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Date: 3/25/2018 2:44:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. Much wisdom and truth in your post. In these poems(SOON TO BE A TOTAL OF THREE POEMS), I am targeting only the modern publishers and am not addressing the poets themselves, many of which are being lead astray , IMHO. AND MANY OF THOSE POETS HAVE FINE TALENT THAT SHOULD BE REDIRECTED BACK TO THE VERY FOUNDATION THAT THE PUBLISHERS ARE RAPIDLY AND DELIBERATELY DESTROYING IN ORDER TO MAKE A QUICKER BUCK, IMHO. Somebody should speak up about this and I am...
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Date: 3/25/2018 1:25:00 PM
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Applause! Robert, your thought provoking sequel carries forward your powerful repudiation of modern day publishers of poetry. With purpose and a big heart, you easily move your heartfelt message through your expressive poetic lines with silky smooth rhythm and 24 carat rhymes. Your imagery effectively expresses your disdain and distaste while exulting poets of heart; 'Burnt midnight oil, ink splashes on receptive page as poetic hearts and souls stand firm on solid ground' Superb! Warmest wishes. ~Susan
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Date: 3/25/2018 2:39:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. I am honored and very pleased that you have found it so. I posted this piece with much trepidation about how well it would be received , since it is written about a controversial subject, namely the sad reality of what today's modern--PUBLISHERS-- ARE DELIBERATELY DOING TO POETRY AND ITS FOUNDATION.. My trilogy of poems are written solely about **modern day publishers of poetry and not about the poets** either here at the Soup or even elsewhere.... For this site has truly exceptional poets and far more than just a few that truly meet that high standard!!!
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Date: 3/25/2018 12:43:00 PM
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Just wanted to say that I recently read a rather tame poem from one of the Glam Queens and they got 2 pages of comments? Bananas... I have to say that poem was garbage compared to this, surely vanity is a whore, and POPularity is her pimp...
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Date: 3/25/2018 5:56:00 PM
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Keith, not only do you possess a wise and magnificent name but also a clear grasp of the Soup. BTW, your pic looks like me 40 years ago.
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Date: 3/25/2018 1:44:00 PM
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There are those out to Destroy Poetry with their babbling nonsense. Nevertheless, on an amateur site such as this popularity brought about through phony ingratiation rules and always will. It's part of the package
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Date: 3/25/2018 12:36:00 PM
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Of all your poems that I commented on --- this is the first time I was the first to comment; this piece is brilliant Robert, so much wisdom here, every word of it true to heart. A fave;-)
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Date: 3/25/2018 2:32:00 PM
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Thank you my friend. I had hoped this was at the very least an adequate continuance of the first poem written on this subject. And if it was more, then all the better.. Very pleased that you have found it so and added this to your fav list!
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