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Alan View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	Oct 17 10, 00:19 Post #1
Laureate Legionnaire Group: Gold Member Posts: 3,446 Joined: 16-October 06 From: UK Member No.: 298 Real Name: Alan McAlpine Douglas Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori/Eisa/loads of old friends	GOOD OLD CEMENT We’ll shoot the breeze and pine for home we’ll beat our chests, hearts throb with pain we’ll permeate these foreign parts and then - we’ll do it all again We’ll breathe mind’s air, tingling of “there” we’ll hale old memories from deep glass we’ll axe the present, shed sweet tears and glorify some ancient past Our flow, it’s one of “Good Old Days” and yet, how was it that we went ? Perhaps small death when we “escaped” what wasn’t faced, set in cement ? Alan McAlpine Douglas Challenge words : breeze pine beat throb permeate breathe tingling hale axe flow ·············· MM Award Winner

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JLY View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	Oct 26 10, 11:23 Post #2
Ornate Oracle Group: Centurion Posts: 4,592 Joined: 31-October 03 From: New Jersey Member No.: 39 Real Name: John Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Larry Carr	Alan, As usual you have a poem that has an underlayment of a witty perspective. Do I take your "set in cement ?" to be similar to the cliche, "engraved in stone."? JLY ·············· Give thanks for your new friends of today, but never forget the warm hugs of your yesterdays. Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! MM Award Winner