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  Re: Decoration Day
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2009, 08:04:06 PM » by Ken Robson
Kevin,

Thank you so much. Yeats, you think Yeats.
Then I'll stop here, horseman, pass by!

                                       Ken
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The craft of angling is catching fish. The art of angling is a
receptiveness to those connections, the art of letting one
thing lead to another until, if only locally and momentarily,
you realize some small completeness.

                                  Ted Leeson

  Re: Decoration Day
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2009, 10:58:10 PM » by larry jordan
Ken, your work on this is most deliberate and the result quite sharp. I've one needling thought about 'know'; the red poppies know. Know seems to be almost too exact given the McCrae source. It works, but I wonder if there is something else that would also reverberate with witness. Just a thought and definitely not critical. My earlier concern with aim stemmed from my thoughts about the age of those 'crooked' men. But on second thought and the context of the battle it is quite appropriate.

Not a mere painting, but a mural indeed.

larry
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  Re: Decoration Day
« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2009, 12:01:13 AM » by Tom Riordan
On Flanders' fields
red poppies know 
the dead have gone to seed--

row on row of crooked men
in spats and khaki memories
kneel, take aim and bleed.     
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  Re: Decoration Day
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2009, 03:35:02 AM » by Ken Robson
Thank you, Larry.

      Ken
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The craft of angling is catching fish. The art of angling is a
receptiveness to those connections, the art of letting one
thing lead to another until, if only locally and momentarily,
you realize some small completeness.

                                  Ted Leeson

  Re: Decoration Day
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2009, 04:36:19 AM » by Ken Robson
Larry,

On re-reading I find "know" is somehow fatuous.
I'm back to what feels right, and real.

            Ken
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The craft of angling is catching fish. The art of angling is a
receptiveness to those connections, the art of letting one
thing lead to another until, if only locally and momentarily,
you realize some small completeness.

                                  Ted Leeson

  Re: Decoration Day
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2009, 08:11:24 AM » by larry jordan
Grow is it. It plays more with seed. Nice piece of work, Ken.   Needs to move up.

larry
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  Re: Decoration Day
« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2009, 08:34:01 AM » by Ken Robson
Thanks for your jostle!

                   Ken
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The craft of angling is catching fish. The art of angling is a
receptiveness to those connections, the art of letting one
thing lead to another until, if only locally and momentarily,
you realize some small completeness.

                                  Ted Leeson

  Re: Decoration Day
« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2010, 03:19:17 PM » by Tiko Lewis
Ken,

excellent.

tiko
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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.

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