[stylist] something different

[Lynda Lambert]

Longfellow had a birthday this past week.
His work has been overlooked for a good many years, but is now being 
revisited. There is new interest in Longfellow developing in the 21st 
century.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] something different


> Chris is a poet and didn't know it, (MMM, maybe we should look at his 
> feet,
> they maybe "Long Fellows."
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jacqueline Williams
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:12 PM
> To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [stylist] something different
>
> Chris,
> This is a really wonderful poem. It is an anaphora, in case you did not
> know. Look it up if you are interested.
> The repetition of your line holds something interesting and unexpected in
> each stanza.
> Jackie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Kuell
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:55 AM
> To: Stylist
> Subject: [stylist] something different
>
> Today is a beautiful day in Connecticut, sunny and about 60 degrees, so I
> decided to take my pac Mate outside and see what happened. This is the
> result.
>
>
>
> Sitting Under a Sycamore Tree
>
>
>
> By Chris Kuell
>
>
>
> I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree
>
> Off in the distance I hear children playing at recess
>
> Run Jenny run
>
> You're it
>
> Ashes, ashes, we all fall down
>
>
>
> I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree
>
> Listening to the insects
>
> Imagining the praying mantis sawing away at the wasp in its clutches
>
> The wasp licking the honey off the tongue
>
> of the bee it just killed
>
>
>
> I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree
>
> Remembering my mother-in-law
>
> So sick at the end she couldn't speak
>
> My wife's mournful sobs
>
> Glad that I'm blind
>
>
>
> I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree
>
> Listening to a book
>
> 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'
>
> Sun on my face
>
> Living in the present
>
> I can't help but smile
>
>
>
> I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree
>
> Trying to find the words
>
> For a letter to a friend whose husband recently died
>
> Dear Janet
>
> Procrastinating
>
>
>
> I'm sitting under a Sycamore tree
>
> Dancing with the muse
>
> Glad to be alive
>
>
>
> 23 Feb 2012
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