Just in time, with this one. I'm not satisifed with it but I put it on to meet the schedule.
A Foreign Land.
I don't live in the house where I lived that time
when all the world was just one street;
and the faces and voices that come into view
are not those I used to love and meet.
They used to smile, but now they laugh;
they used to glance, but now don't see.
I think anachronistically;
their discourse doesn't speak to me.
Voyager in a foreign land;
a stranger on an alien shore.
I'm hoping now to find the way,
so I'll be carried to my home
where my affections draw.
homework for w/e 1.8.11. Foreign.
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Re: homework for w/e 1.8.11. Foreign.
Hi Neville,
I like this.......and wow - anachronistically......
nearly a line of meter all it's own!
I think I'm going to have to try and use it in a sentence
some time today!!
Wen
I like this.......and wow - anachronistically......
nearly a line of meter all it's own!
I think I'm going to have to try and use it in a sentence
some time today!!
Wen
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Re: homework for w/e 1.8.11. Foreign.
You don't want to use that word Wendy
, it means becoming an old fogey ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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Re: homework for w/e 1.8.11. Foreign.
No going back Neville - it is never the same, and that saddens and diminishes us somehow.
Like the use of your old fogey word
Clever
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Maureen
Like the use of your old fogey word
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Re: homework for w/e 1.8.11. Foreign.
What about...
"Hey Dad, you're looking very anachronistically challenged today."?
Do you think I would remain in the will?
"Hey Dad, you're looking very anachronistically challenged today."?
Do you think I would remain in the will?
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Re: homework for w/e 1.8.11. Foreign.
Ah Wendy, you smile with an admiring look and say lovingly , " Dad, have I ever told you that it's your anachronistic mind that really makes you stand out from other men ".
He will be so pleased and flattered.![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
He will be so pleased and flattered.
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Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.