[stylist] apologies

[Barbara Hammel]

Here, here!  And it rhymed.  I guess you're out-of-date right along with me.
Barbara

Snow is God's way of reminding us that beauty can be found even in the 
coldest hearts.

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From: "Robert Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:56 PM
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] apologies

> Lori, your poem --- it actually was easy for me to follow and make sense 
> of!
> (so little poetry  is fathomable to me)
>
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> Robert Leslie Newman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of LoriStay at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:26 AM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [stylist] apologies
>
> It was okay.   Lots of walking, lots of time to meditate in the synagogue.
> I pulled a muscle the other day, so sitting down and standing up was
> difficult, though once I was up, or down, I was fine.   I'm sitting on ice
> at
> home.   It seems to spur the wellsprings of poetry though.
>
> The following came to me this morning, after hearing that a magazine I'm
> editing is again going to be heavily censored (of stupid things, too).
>
> Censor's Ship
> Loraine Stayer
>
> Past the Censor's ship I sail
> In my wake our treasures trail
> Bobbing in the sea of ink
> All must be frightening I think.
>
> Martin Luther King; Granny's pot of gold MacDonald's dollar menu; Godiva's
> chocolate bold.
> Where have they gone?
> Dissolved in the sea of shame
> Because, oh horror, of a proper name
>
> Or worse, a hint of theft or murder,
> A deadly sin that leaves our writers'
> Best-trashed in the bin.
>
> But why?   It must be fear of censure
> In a nation once free,
> Now devoid of liberty.
>
>
> This was partly spurred by the red light cameras on two of our major
> intersections.   Who would have thought I was so paranoid about being
> watched for
> every little sin?   (Not that jumping a light is a LITTLE sin!)
> Lori
> In a message dated 9/30/09 1:22:51 AM, n6yr at sunflower.com writes:
>
>
>> God bless you and your family Lori,
>> hope it was a blessed holiday.
>>
>> jc
>>
>
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