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Ciars
Rohan
Nov 17 2012, 8:44am
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I can remember The Highway man from school! I've chosen a Kipling poem this week, one that always makes me think about how the past can be changed, hidden and altered without anyone realising. I like the idea that the past is always present even if we do not know it, kind of like past memories imprinted on places or ghostly spirits returning to places they were connected to watching the present and almost shaking their heads at changes! The Way through the Woods THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods. Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late, When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools Where the otter whistles his mate, (They fear not men in the woods, Because they see so few.) You will hear the beat of a horse's feet, And the swish of a skirt in the dew, Steadily cantering through The misty solitudes, As though they perfectly knew The old lost road through the woods. But there is no road through the woods.
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Weekly poetry thread.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Nov 15 2012, 1:28pm
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Great choice, Aunt Dora!
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wendy woo
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Nov 16 2012, 3:04am
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Hee!
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Nov 16 2012, 1:08pm
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I will forever associate this with the Anne of Green Gables mini-series. =) //
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Nov 16 2012, 3:27am
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Along with Tennyson's The Lady of Shalot.
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wendy woo
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Nov 16 2012, 3:29am
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I can beat that.
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silneldor
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Nov 16 2012, 6:33am
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A great poem
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Ciars
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Nov 17 2012, 8:44am
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Wow!
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Nov 17 2012, 3:33pm
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Great photos!
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Ciars
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Nov 17 2012, 5:18pm
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