[stylist] Poem - "Breeze" - Second Draft

[William L Houts]

Hi Brigit,

As far as teaching you things goes, it's a two-way street.


grins,

Bill







On 7/21/2015 11:42 AM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist wrote:
> Barbara,
>
> I also did not know this word, thanks for looking it up. I often look up
> words in Bill's poems, smile. He teaches me a lot.
>
> Agree this is the start of a great poem. I will comment more later.
>
> Bridgit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
> HAMMEL via stylist
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 12:34 PM
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> Cc: Barbara HAMMEL
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem - "Breeze" - Second Draft
>
> Okay, I may not be the only one who didn't know the word devoir. It is a
> formal expression for respect. Thank you, Bill, for teaching me a new word
> today.
> Barbara
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 11:08, William L Houts via stylist
> <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
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>> Good Morning, My Droogies,
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>> Here's my secondish or thirdish run at a poem I started on yesterday.
> It's a little bit of nothing, really, just an etude or finger exercise, a
> little study in rhyme, but for me anyway it has it's satisfactions, the
> maihn one being that I was in despair over it yesterday and posted to the
> list about that, but now I've got this little piece which I might take up in
> the future and see what might be made of it. if anything.
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>> --Bill
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>> *Breeze *
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>> The wind winds clever airfoot
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>> through my hair, and laves my face of reddish sweat.
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>> It chills a little, and though I fly me wide
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>> to greet this gust, this guest, I guess
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>> I'll bear his touch with breath as fair as unseen kiss:
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>> that I might meet the wind in wind's own dress
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>> and bear to bed his cares, that he might fly
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>> to seas of hallelujah isles, his mission made
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>> to bless another, maybe darker face
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>> and, his devoirs done, to scud the waves.
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>> -- 
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>> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"