@rsgwynn1 It's an ideal poem for the reader because it is robust, with strong rhymes, metre and enjambments that can be worked hard, carried by colloquial speech with no trace of artifice. I was briefly fooled by the teacher in class looking back, thinking it was upon former pupils, not former classmates. Thank you, your approval means a lot to me.
"believe nothing. no matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason, and your own common sense."...Buddha
Thankyou for your reading and commentary. The quote seems appropriate. It's so important to learn to trust our own thoughts and feelings.
I looked up 'pulling-guard' in an article on Baseball (but I still don't know what one does).
The suggestion that the soldiers who died in Vietnam were boys who had no good reason to be there might have been considered subversive once upon a time.
Thank goodness the US no longer sends its children to die in irrelevant foreign campaigns.
@thallassocracy I didn't know either, but "pulling guard" is from American Football. There's a description in the Urban Dictionary that's too deep for me. The equivalent of a "nippy forward" in Rugby is my impression.
"If any question why we died, tell them because our fathers lied" ... Rudyard Kipling.
"Emotionally we miss their faults more than their virtues."
I either misunderstood you or I could not agree with you less. My dad has been dead for years, and I do not miss his periods where he was drunk, violent, self-hating, and maudlin.
I do miss when he was sober, kind, and hard-working.
@servomoore The line you have quoted seems to have been taken out of context, in my opinion, as the poem and the commentary both refer to the teacher-student relationship.
Beautifully read. Many thanks. Actually, they were fellow high-school students (c. 1965).
rsgwynn1 1 year ago
@rsgwynn1 It's an ideal poem for the reader because it is robust, with strong rhymes, metre and enjambments that can be worked hard, carried by colloquial speech with no trace of artifice. I was briefly fooled by the teacher in class looking back, thinking it was upon former pupils, not former classmates. Thank you, your approval means a lot to me.
SpokenVerse 1 year ago
"believe nothing. no matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason, and your own common sense."...Buddha
Thankyou for your reading and commentary. The quote seems appropriate. It's so important to learn to trust our own thoughts and feelings.
TheBeautyEverywhere 1 year ago
Beautiful!
FloresDeLaPrimavera 1 year ago
I looked up 'pulling-guard' in an article on Baseball (but I still don't know what one does).
The suggestion that the soldiers who died in Vietnam were boys who had no good reason to be there might have been considered subversive once upon a time.
Thank goodness the US no longer sends its children to die in irrelevant foreign campaigns.
thallassocracy 1 year ago
@thallassocracy I didn't know either, but "pulling guard" is from American Football. There's a description in the Urban Dictionary that's too deep for me. The equivalent of a "nippy forward" in Rugby is my impression.
"If any question why we died, tell them because our fathers lied" ... Rudyard Kipling.
SpokenVerse 1 year ago
"Emotionally we miss their faults more than their virtues."
I either misunderstood you or I could not agree with you less. My dad has been dead for years, and I do not miss his periods where he was drunk, violent, self-hating, and maudlin.
I do miss when he was sober, kind, and hard-working.
I guess that makes me shallow.
servomoore 1 year ago
@servomoore The line you have quoted seems to have been taken out of context, in my opinion, as the poem and the commentary both refer to the teacher-student relationship.
TheBeautyEverywhere 1 year ago
@servomoore Seeing it from your point of view, however, and applying that line in a general way... I do not think your feelings are shallow, at all.
TheBeautyEverywhere 1 year ago