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	Fall Poetry Slam

Posted by: palmettobug53, 12:24 PM GMT on September 26, 2009

Autumn Landscape by Van Gogh

Boy, that last thread didn't stay up long. It didn't even survive long enough to garner any comments! LOL

I had an epiphany, whilst over at Pros' place.

Fall poetry! Write your own. Post a favourite.

Let's celebrate Fall!

After Apple Picking by Robert Frost

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing dear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.

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Updated: 12:40 PM GMT on September 26, 2009

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	Please stand by.....

Posted by: palmettobug53, 11:42 AM GMT on September 26, 2009

Time to take the Hugo entry down but I haven't gotten anything new ready to put up. Hence, the temporary thread.So, for the next week or so, this will have to do while I rummage around for something else.Feel free to come in, put your feet up, read the paper, work the crossword, sip some coffee and watch re-runs on TV. I think there are some cookies in the pantry.If you make a mess, clean it up. I don't run a maid service here, you know! Create your own visitor ...

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Updated: 12:25 PM GMT on September 26, 2009

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	9/21/89 - Ground Zero

Posted by: palmettobug53, 2:09 AM GMT on September 17, 2009

Map from WeatherUnderground archives. Ground Zero Post and Courier article in today's paper, 9/21/09Reliving the Reality of Hugo by P&C columnist, Ken BurgerSeptember 21, 1989Twenty years ago, Hurricane Hugo crashed ashore at about 26 mph, slightly north of the Charleston peninsula on the Isle of Palms as a Cat. 4. There was a peak gust of 137 mph recorded at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, just prior to landfall. If I recall correctly, Hugo made landfall at hig...

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Updated: 11:41 AM GMT on September 26, 2009

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	This and that....

Posted by: palmettobug53, 12:29 PM GMT on September 13, 2009

New thread under construction I just wanted to get the old entry down until I can get the new one up. I just have a few last minute things I need to check on. I do hope everyone has a great Sunday!

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	Remembering 9/11/74

Posted by: palmettobug53, 12:50 AM GMT on July 27, 2009

(Sorry - Being lazy and recycling an old image from my photobucket account!)Thanks to Yoholake, I found out today is Book Lovers Day! Book Lovers Day When : August 9th and/or first Saturday in November. Book Lovers Day encourages you to find a place in the shade to relax with a good book. Book reading is a great hobby. It's an important one, too. Employers look for it on resumes. Reading is educational, informative, and relaxing. It makes us both smarter, and happi...

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Updated: 2:02 AM GMT on September 17, 2009

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