CCRRMM Poet Laureates Thread

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    Cerise's AvatarCerise , 03-04-2004 03:17 PM
    Royal Ones, we shall share poetry, inspiring stories, pithy quotes and mayhap a joke or two on this thread.

    I, Viscountess Cerise, have spoken.

    **the Viscountess has nothing to share currently but is certain that a peek at her books this evening will lend itself to finding something worth sharing**





    ***the Viscountess has changed her mind. She wishes to post a quote which has changed her life in a small way and which seemed to resonate with at least two other Peeresses of the Realm***

    "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." ~Philo of Alexandria
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    Cerise's AvatarCerise , 03-04-2004 03:18 PM
    Sorry if I stole your thunder, Amarantha. Just wanted to affirm your idea by getting it going, ya know?
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    Amarantha2's AvatarAmarantha2 , 03-04-2004 03:50 PM
    Vicountess, I'm delighted to see thou hath put this thread up here in the Palace Library (I think we're in the library, n'est pas?) and hath brought the gavel down on the first meeting of the ly Poet L Society!!!! I would like to share one of my favorite poems with the group, though it be a very familiar one to thee all, methinks. May I ask what the favorite poems are of all the Society members? (Just think, if we are typing poetry in, we are NOT eating peanut butter cups, now there's a concept!!!!!)!!!!

    The Road Not Taken

    TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that, the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I marked the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    ~ Robert Frost

    Yes, it has.
    ~ Amarantha

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    Cerise's AvatarCerise , 03-04-2004 03:57 PM
    Oh, we have made SUCH a good beginning! Empress, thank you for getting us started with the incomparable Seņor Frost!
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    Amarantha2's AvatarAmarantha2 , 03-05-2004 04:42 PM
    You are welcome, Poet Leader Cerise!!! Om shanti! Sign me up for the next Society meeting and at that time I'll return with a greeting! (That's a POEM!!!)
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    Amarantha2's AvatarAmarantha2 , 03-06-2004 09:40 AM
    Yowza! Here's how I felt today contemplating the Vernal Exercise Challenge Faire (sorry, it's Robert again):

    The Silken Tent

    She is as in a field a silken tent
    At midday, when a sunny summer breeze
    Has dried the dew, and all its ropes relent
    So that in guys it gently sways at ease
    And its supporting central cedar pole
    That is its pinnacle to heavenward
    And signifies the sureness of the soul
    Seems to owe naught to any single cord
    But, strictly held by none, is loosely bound
    By countless silken ties of love and thought
    To everything on earth the compass 'round
    And only by one going slightly taut
    In the capriciousness of summer air
    Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

    ~ Robert Frost

    Up, up and away, no burdens allowed today! ~ Amarantha

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