On Jun 21, 2:12Â pm, ~Terran
hotmail.com> wrote:> Hi, Jeanne,
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> appreciate your disappointment
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> your poetry's really coming along, still a tad prosaic for my taste
> but you know me
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> there's truth here and beauty in a Keatsian way
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> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:21:10 -0700 (PDT), "jeannek...@
aol.com"
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aol.com> wrote:>> Â Â Â Â Â Racing Forms
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>>The Derby death of Eight Bells, a filly,
>>three years of age, favored by Hillary,
>>caused my superstitious self to sense
>>broken legs forced forward on a fast track
>>mean: certain euthanasia ends that race.
>
>>Big Brown won that Derby and The Preakness,
>>but a cracked left hoof, well patched by greedy
>>fellows focused on the Triple Crown, failed
>>to deliver as promised; Big Brown lost
>>The Belmont Stakes and came in as dead last.
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>>Brown's handlers can't explain why he faltered;
>>the jockey said he felt he had no horse
>>when he spurred him to seize an opening;
>>Brown's "can do" became a slow "no, thank, you"
>>thus, Brown enters history books for tracks.
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>>Unlike the fast filly in the Derby,
>>Big Brown has a future, as a sire;
>>unlike Hillary who stepped down today,
>>Barack has a future, post that wire
>>where a winner's circle has a White House.
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>>But winning depends upon the absence
>>of cracked hooves well patched by greedy fellows
>>and the woman who suspended her run for roses
>>(a ring in the circle where women need not apply)
>>who knows how to rise on call as Maya has written.
>
>>Jeanne Khan
>>7 June 2008
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> on a lighter note -
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> coincidently, I came across a poem the other week
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> dedicated to you long ago
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> it was called Undressing Change
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> pretty steamy
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> do you remember it?
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> ~Terran
Terran,
Hello! Sooch a treat to see you here!
How have you been?
I so remember the challenge ago when
we all wrote steamy sets and had such fun
doing it. Wish I remembered the one you
mentioned. Feel free to post it although
I would not post any of my old ones wherein
I got racer with each challenge to top others.
Whew1 Hot times in those days, whot?
Thanks for being here, Terran, you grace
the place.
Jeanne
