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Neville Briggs
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Re: flotsam
Goodonya Matt.
Einstein could never figure out a theory of everything, where unity and diversity existed at the same time and place. That's because he was looking at the material not the personal. Stephen Hawking couldn't either. He said so.
That's why they're not poets.

Einstein could never figure out a theory of everything, where unity and diversity existed at the same time and place. That's because he was looking at the material not the personal. Stephen Hawking couldn't either. He said so.
That's why they're not poets.
Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
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Re: flotsam
there’s a dance you can dance while watching
it’s the dance you embrace in your sleep
where the world is your own entirely
and the melody yours to keep
there’s a time you can time forever
yet a time that will wait for you
where your world is restored sublimely
and the melody old, blooms new
it’s the dance you embrace in your sleep
where the world is your own entirely
and the melody yours to keep
there’s a time you can time forever
yet a time that will wait for you
where your world is restored sublimely
and the melody old, blooms new
The purpose of my life is to serve as a warning to others.
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Re: flotsam
Beautiful Matt - waltz on.
Cheers
Maureen
Cheers
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Re: flotsam
Perhaps in an outback Ballroom Matt - no music just wonderful silence.
Terry
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manfredvijars
Re: flotsam
Not meaning to rain on anyone's parade, but just a reminder that this is still a Bush Poetry Forum - Rhyme-n-Metre please ...
Manfred.
Manfred.
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Neville Briggs
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Re: flotsam
There are six lines of trochaic tetrameter, so Matt's poem is metred.
the lines..you should dance and... and just remember.. are repeated, which makes a repeat sound. Rhyme is a repeat sound, so the poem has rhyme .
Voila ! rhyme and metre. No problems Manfred.

the lines..you should dance and... and just remember.. are repeated, which makes a repeat sound. Rhyme is a repeat sound, so the poem has rhyme .
Voila ! rhyme and metre. No problems Manfred.
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Neville
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Re: flotsam
Never thought I would use one of my sons favourite sayings Neville.
" Yeah Sure Ted "
Bob
" Yeah Sure Ted "
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Re: flotsam
I didn't know that there was movement at the mountain, for the word was passed on down that decreed " Thou must never use rhyme and metre in a subtle way when thou doest bush poetry " 
Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
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manfredvijars
Re: flotsam
I get that matt - no worries ...matt wrote:cheers Terry
umbrella deployed Manfred, or rather, drizabone donned....I assure you no controversy provocation or disregard was intended