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> Poetic challenge using Frost's 'Stopping by Woods...", same format, your own story
Merlin
post Jan 9 10, 13:12
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Good to have you join in, Leo & Larry.
Poor ole Bob - I wonder if he regrets making those promises...
Here's another addition - I thought I'd have a bit of fun with things.



RF was working hard that day,
A load of wood was on his sleigh.
He noticed he had miles to go
So off he went without delay.

The weather changed – wooden you know!
The wind began to really blow
And Bob decided on the spot
He best get moving lest it snow.

He moved the stick-shift onto “Trot”
And exited their small woodlot.
It soon gets dark that time of year
As stars come out. The moon did not.

Down by the lake he saw two deer,
One near the front, one at the rear.
A splendid scene, cool, crisp and clear;
A splendid scene, cool, crisp and clear.


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post Jan 9 10, 17:51
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Eric my wizardering friend, what a nice refresher for good ol' Bob.

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post Jan 11 10, 20:33
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Well done Leo! claps.gif

Glad to see you trying out this challenge too! I luv it! cloud9.gif Could it be that jolly old man is RF's long lost cousin? Hmmmm...

Maybe HE's asleep!

Enjoyed!
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post Jan 11 10, 20:37
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Hi Larry, wave.gif

I MUST go ahead and beat my muse into submission one of these days - I'm going on nearly one full year now of hardly a scribble... Perhaps the SQ hybrids is what I need? Idea.gif



I particularly like these lines:

I fall. A sleep in dreamless sorrows, deep
despair at love’s demise? I did not keep
those promises I made. I fail to sleep
in dreamless sorrows, deep. I fall asleep.



I'm certain Robert would like it too! Read.gif

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post Jan 11 10, 20:39
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Eric, Wizard.gif

A great addition to our little jingle of Frosty proportions! Snowflake.gif

Enjoyed!
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post Jan 11 10, 20:53
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I've only just jotted down the first stanza - anyone like to add the second?

An arctic chant we’ve come to know
has graced us once again and though
we shan’t perceive it stopping here,
It races on -- this earth-bound snow.


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post Jan 12 10, 11:30
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Hi Lori,

Glad you and Bob liked my meager offering. I'll give your "starting stanza" a try.


An arctic chant we’ve come to know
has graced us once again and though
we shan’t perceive it stopping here,
it races on. This earth-bound snow

bequeaths, with wind-blown drifts, the queer
and eerie sculptures built so near
the crystal mirror... azure lake
reflections stolen one more year.


Next please!

Lori, I changed the cap "It" in L4. Hope you don't mind.

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post Jan 12 10, 12:58
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goodjob.gif Larry!

Yeah, I had meant to edit that Cap (Word always caps every line) - TY! I'll paste in the next stanza into Word and see if my muse can come with anything. I'm dealing with the teasings of a chest cold so I'm a bit "foggy" all around, lol!

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post Jan 12 10, 14:18
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OK - here's my attempt at the third stanza, Larry. (I'm not happy with L3/L4 - feel free to offer up something different:

An arctic chant we’ve come to know
has graced us once again and though
we shan’t perceive it stopping here,
it races on. This earth-bound snow

bequeaths, with wind-blown drifts, the queer
and eerie sculptures built so near
the crystal mirror... azure lake
reflections stolen one more year.

A symbol shared? A twofold shake
unites this numinous mistake
creating an unearthly sweep
of snow-white shapes from downy flake.



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post Jan 12 10, 16:43
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Hi again Lori,
Looks like we didn't give anyone else a chance at this one. Changed L3 a bit to go in the direction S4 was headed. Hope you like it. If not, crit and chip away the dross. Also gave it a title which seems fitting but who knows.

Winters Song

An arctic chant we’ve come to know
has graced us once again and though
we shan’t perceive it stopping here,
it races on. This earth-bound snow

bequeaths, with wind-blown drifts, the queer
and eerie sculptures built so near
the crystal mirror... azure lake
reflections stolen one more year.

A symbol shared? A twofold shake
unites this numinous mistake
creating life with deadly sweep
of snow. White shapes, from downy flake,

arise from nothing to grave deep.
Hold each unwary soul and keep
their pallid form in endless sleep.
Chant dirges for those chosen. Sleep!

Hope you don't have H1N1 or even worse, that dreaded winter cold.

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post Jan 12 10, 18:15
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Well done, Larry! claps.gif thumbsup.gif

We should pick another poem and try this again (or try another one here)!!! Thanks for your responses - a FAB result! cloud9.gif

Yeah, I've been bothered by this cold - it hasn't really done much, although I've had it for over a month (just a slight nasal run mostly), hardly enough for the tissue factor, rofl.gif but yesterday and today, it's a bit more runny and now the chest feels compressed a bit. So, I'm home now relaxing after a BUSY but none-to-stressful day at work. Gonna make some soup and rest on the couch. I'll log in later from my laptop downstairs then. I didn't do the H1N1 shot yet, but did do the annual flu shot end of October.

Hope you are well! prescription.gif
Cheers,
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post Apr 23 16, 00:04
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Empty Nest - Again

Excitement wanes for I should know
they too will leave these halls, although
it was so nice to have them here;
they melt away like fallen snow.

I know it’s strange and sometimes queer
for folks to come from far and near,
across the oceans or a lake
they go their way inside a year.

Were there more poet-trees to shake
I’d make them sway, make no mistake.
Now I’ll just get my broom and sweep
the cobwebs from these halls. Each flake

of paint piles up, they’re getting deep
and bins are full. I guess they’ll keep
until I get a bit of sleep.
Where’s everyone? Perhaps they sleep.


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A Visit to Sleepy, Hollow Wood

Most Karnak visitors I know;
some others do come see us, though.
Those secret few may stop in here
where we hang words on trees like snow.

The passers-by will think us queer
to blather on while no one's near
our woods; they're off to swim their lake
and may be back some time next year.

(I just slugged down a veggie shake
too quick to catch my kale mistake;
I think I'll take a break and sweep
the kitchen floor of old corn flakes.)

I'm back to write, but nothing deep;
my way-down thoughts will have to keep.
To read such things would make you sleep,
and I'm the one who needs the sleep.

© MLee Dickens'son 27 May 2016

... and Larry, here is an older play on RF's poem. Perhaps your remember it?


Non-Stop but Woods on a Summer Evening

Whose roads these are I do not care
for I but travel them to where
I’d rather be; just stopping here
to un-tank from my caffeine share

that guides leased Lancer without fear
that into some deep ditch I’d steer…
for auto-pilot’s not a choice,
not even cruise control this year,

and I’ve no chauffeured black Rolls-Royce.
I’ll call to hear my honey’s voice,
relieve at every pause I must,
play tapes of James Montgomery Boice.

I’m glad there’ll be no snow, but just
some rain and wind… no frost, I trust…
so back to Bridgeton now or bust
... headlong ... to nestle at her bust.

© MLee Dickens'son 24 June 2004
from Syracuse NY to Bridgeton, NJ



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post May 11 16, 22:15
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Hi Daniel,

Sorry but I don't remember the second one and could not find it in any of the Frost challenges. I might try it using your last words but don't know anything or anyone called or named Boyce.

I'll have to stick with the original end-rhymes when I write another.

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I don't think the older one was from a challenge. it was merely triggered by the same Frost piece of this challenge, long before the challenge.

And I'm surprised that you don't know about James Montgomery Boice, who was the long-time pastor at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and was a prolific writer.

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I am sorry that I didn’t know
about Boyce and his writings, although
I’m from Texas. He never came here
where some Baptists might look for Hell’s snow.

Raised as one, I would think it quite queer
that his sermons or writings came near
to a small children’s home by a lake.
Though our choir went on tour every year

there is doubt without any headshake,
and I’d not think it was a mistake
that he’d care to attend. When the sweep
of our songs, A Capella, would flake

biased scaled from his eyes. We were deep
into Bach, Latin chants and we’d keep
every venue from going to sleep.
Our choir’s voice would wake Boyce from his sleep.


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post May 13 16, 09:01
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I am sorry, but how could I know
Dr Boyce was unknown there, although
he was widely well-known, not just here
where the Baptists say, Hell to the snow!

And they like Presbyterians. Queer?
I don't think so; their churches are near
to each other. It's not like a lake
is between, so they meet up each year.

I am wondering why the head-shake;
Tenth Pres. choir never makes a mistake
and their organist really might sweep
you right off of your feet. They've no flakes

in their choir, and their repertoire's deep
into classics and modern, so keep
your own bias at bay; you'd not sleep
when they sing. In your bed you will sleep.


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Would that I, in my youth came to know
choirs of excellent skill and although
they used orchestras; there were none here
in my Church of Christ years. It would snow

in the desert and none think it queer.
A Capella! No instruments near
that denomination by the lake.
It seemed strange in my first college year

as a voice major. I couldn’t shake
the strange feelings, thought it a mistake
which at times would drown harmony’s sweep.
Instruments hid those few who were flakes.

My great love as a purist was deep
like my voice which I no longer keep
for my life choices put it to sleep.
It remains in my dreams when I sleep.


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In my youth, I sang tenor, you know,
in falsetto through voice-change, although
I'm a basso. But we've no choir here
where we've worshipped for five or six snows.

Well, we used to have one, and it's queer
that we stopped, and resuming's not near.
It had happened when our nearby lake
emptied as the dam broke; but last year

it has filled up again. Yet, no shake
in our musical lack. A mistake?
Choir's director's on leave; did they sweep
the group under the rug like corn flakes?

I don't think there's some mystery, deep;
We were part-time at best, didn't keep
up a schedule; we didn't lose sleep
if we didn't perform. Let it sleep.


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There are some things I wish that I could know,
and others hidden from my ken, although
there are no written records. Are they here
or buried on the mountain tops with snow?

Scientifically, anomalies are queer;
though faith is rampant, proof is nowhere near.
Some folks would tell me, “go jump in the lake”
but I reply, “no thanks, did that last year”!

Did meteors cause all the world to shake
and kill the dinosaurs? Was it mistake
that archeologists find bones and sweep
millennia away, one flake by flake?

The origin of man… a subject, deep
will be around for some time but will keep
until the One all-knowing bids us sleep
and all will waken from our naive sleep.


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