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Hi Poetic_Al, I only just caught your poem and challenge within. I would need to read it a few more times to eek out the inferences although I think it would be beyond me, way over here on Vancouver Island. Well done and I am appreciative of your unique perception in your writing, it helps me to see in different ways. I'm working on a more epic poem about Katherine's performances but that one will take a while yet. In the meantime I thought I would post another short one that popped into my head (that's how it works for me) while traveling on the bus. I know I'm not a writer, I do try, and I always have fun in the process, sometimes bouncing the ideas off of friends and we all have a laugh. Here, for fun, it is. Any suggestions for a title?
When I was young I knew not why
The color blue was in the sky.
I did not know of time and space
I could not see this was my place.
Alas I grew and learned a lot
Didactic lessons I was taught.
The predilections of that past
Became the values that would last.
Although I see through ancient eyes
Ignoring knowledge, those blue skies
The choice to learn was mine alone
And with that, now, I know my home.
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| Sorry to have been away with a medical issue, Jack, good to see you all over the site. Can't describe how pleased I am for Katherine's pursuits and accomplishments. Your poem is right from the heart and it shows. Wish I had the command of language you clearly demonstrate. Shakespeare, eat your heart out, hee hee.
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Hello, Michael; it's nice to hear from you again.
I hadn't seen a post from you lately, and wondered
what had become of you! Nothing too serious, I hope?
Yes, our Katherine has done remarkably well in the
DWTS contest; second place isn't to be "sneezed at",
considering the millions of U.S. voters, supporting their
own country-folk! Thank you for the kind (but undeserved)
words, about my last poem to Katherine. Shakespeare
can rest easy, I reckon!
Here's another little "tongue-in-cheek" ditty, I cobbled
together yesterday, on hearing the result of the contest;
I'm sending a copy to lovely Katherine, along with my
next letter; perhaps she may be amused! Anybody else
who reads this, I hope you like it! 
D.W.T.S.
(Decreasing Weight Through Sweating!)
Our Katherine came second, with her "pro" partner, Mark,
Right up to this contest, her dancing "kept dark";
All the pundits considered she hadn't a chance,
But Katherine has shown them, how well she can dance.
One question we pose to that Goodman, called Len,
What took you so long, to grant them a TEN?
A premier judge, your scores were too low;
You surely could see, they were best in the show!
At the Waltz or the Tango, the Foxtrot or Jive,
Paso Doble or Salsa, Katherine brought them alive;
Shaking her "Naughty Bits", she showed how it's done,
And her sexy "Welsh Wiggle" was second to none!
Of professional dancers, this question we ask:
Although good at your dancing, can you "multi-task"?
At dancing and singing, she's our number one choice,
"Terpsichorean" Katherine, with her sweet Angel Voice!
Near unknown in America, are her pure vocal arts,
Yet her skill, charm, and beauty, won millions of hearts;
Stateside, she came second, but she's always our winner,
P.S. Lovely Katherine, PLEASE DON'T GET ANY THINNER!
Jack.
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.... ....That is a grand peerie poem! I liked it.  Angus.
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Thank you Angus, for your PEERIE comment!
Do you have Shetland connections, or are you
perhaps, a native of these Northern Isles?
Jack.
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kleepiesneeter (24/05/2012)
Thank you Angus, for your PEERIE comment! Do you have Shetland connections, or are you perhaps, a native of these Northern Isles? No, but I suspected that you did! I did work up there for a while, but my liver couldn't handle it! Angus. P.S. If I can't get to listen to Katherine, Phil and Aly will do just fine!
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Hi again, Angus; would this have been in the oil
industry, perhaps? I've lived in Shetland all my
life, since I was born in 1933, and my liver is still
OK; (I hope!) Maybe being a native, helps make a
difference to liver longevity! 
Jack.
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kleepiesneeter (24/05/2012)
Hi again, Angus; would this have been in the oil industry, perhaps? I've lived in Shetland all my life, since I was born in 1933, and my liver is still OK; (I hope!) Maybe being a native, helps make a difference to liver longevity! I think that it must be all that Viking blood! Even your poetic talent may have been born of those long, dark, winter nights and even longer Norse Sagas. Angus.
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Hello again, everybody; this thread has lapsed for a while,
so here's a little contribution which may interest somebody.
Strange subject, I know, but here's how it came about: My
Grandson, Roy, (seventeen) and still at our local high-school,
is awaiting his chance to get into Abertay (Dundee) University.
As part of a recent assignment, his English teacher asked him
to write a piece of poetry, or prose, "discussing" any old
nursery-rhyme, and provided an example, relating to "Three
Blind Mice". The example was a "modern" poem, which
didn't rhyme or scan, of course! I wrote the following little
discourse on the old rhyme,"Humpty-Dumpty", just to give
him my idea. Roy tells me he's definitely going to show
it to his English teacher, along with his own work,
(which will be prose) when he hands it in! I just
wonder what "Sir" will think of it?
Jack.
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