Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 In a message dated 1/6/04 5:05:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, IonaDove@... writes: > * This one won a prize..... > > No Doubt! Dail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 This is a lovely picture, Alice. I felt like I was there. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 I couldn't resist passing on this wonderful poem on to a friend who was in the British navy for many years. He loved it too! Thanks! Eve On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 01:15 PM, IonaDove@... wrote: > AT THE PUB: Dingle > > > I sit in my wet coat beside old Flynn > at the peatfire it is > and listen to his toothless mouth > > taste the past > > we talk: I question life > and he answers the sea > the spray of it yet blue and squint in his eyes > and low tide in his blood > > men in great gumboots turned at the cuff > and all in black, wearing their old wise caps > some red-headed pale and proud > track more mud through the door yet open > to the mist and summer sheen of bottle green > and quaff their dark-foamed Guiness > the peats smoke and glow > > through the gruff and gentle Gaelic tongue on them > and Flynn crinkle-eyes me > because I am a fine stout woman he says > and he places his thick hand upon my thigh many times > (for emphasis, mind you!) > > not as a lecher, I am thinking > but the way in his youth > he might have held the rail on deck in a fair wind > or turned a big white loaf of bread > before cutting it > and a man at the bar mentions to a stranger come in > that the tide is not out entirely. > > a.o.howell > > > * This one won a prize..... > > Alice O. Howell > Rosecroft > Box 177 > Monterey, MA 01245-0177 USA > Tel: > Fax: > " Look for the sacred in the commonplace! " > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 The list may stay idle for a few days, but then we can always expect to be rewarded. If I were younger, I would like to go Dingle. Betty > AT THE PUB: Dingle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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