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  Re: Sculls on the Charles
« Reply #30 on: August 26, 2010, 01:54:58 AM » by Lynn Doiron
Ah, my week for Featured Work choice -- and, trust me, this hasn't been easy. 

My top favorites include: Swimming With Whales (milner place), Abby (Pam Scobie), In The Churchyard (David C. Man), Staring At A Paperclip (bear stansberger), Poem From Quentin/Getting The News From Poems (quentin kirk), Fallen (cheryl leverette) -- to name only a few.

So why this choice, over the others, I ask myself.  Because of its peace.  Because of its quiet.  Because of its title which situates me on a river I've never seen, never fished, never smelled.  Because of the way the work places a hand-worked craft to glide with grace in the briefest of ways (3 1/2, 4 words!) and gives imagination wings.  Because of the way my spirit lifts with the mallards overhead, how the air moves, and how I can hear/feel it.

Cedar shore-birds
feather oars

overhead
mallards thrumming


An honor for me to send this one up another notch. 

lynn
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  Re: Sculls on the Charles
« Reply #31 on: August 26, 2010, 04:05:42 AM » by Ken Robson
Lynn,

Thank you for your pick and for your appreciation of
the scene. When I lived in Boston, twenty-some yrs
ago, I would change my route home in order to catch
the sculls, sun glancing off their hulls, sweeping west
on the river. I think Eakins' rowing pictures are some
of our best paintings. Anyway, it's timeless and full of
grace. Thank you for appreciating it!

                                                      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
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« Reply #32 on: August 26, 2010, 08:23:46 AM » by Tom Riordan
Congrats, Ken! Tom
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« Reply #33 on: August 26, 2010, 09:31:50 AM » by Tiko Lewis
congrats, Ken. 

tiko
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« Reply #34 on: August 26, 2010, 01:58:50 PM » by StellaR

congratulations!
well deserved, ken
so pleased to log in and see this piece on the Front Page

Stella
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« Reply #35 on: August 26, 2010, 02:33:39 PM » by Lavonne Westbrooks
Bravo!
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« Reply #36 on: August 26, 2010, 03:41:29 PM » by Ken Robson
Tom, Tiko, Stella and Lavonne,

I appreciate your fandom, particularly
since this little piece was a team effort!

                        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: Sculls on the Charles
« Reply #37 on: August 26, 2010, 10:41:29 PM » by Tom Riordan
don't know if anyone else cares, but the capital "C" at start distracts me a bit in this poem otherwise devoid of punctuation
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« Reply #38 on: August 26, 2010, 10:51:20 PM » by Sue Lozynskyj
I'd not seen this little  gem till now...thanks Ken and thanks Lynn.
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Chance favours the prepared mind: Louis Pasteur
  Re: Sculls on the Charles
« Reply #39 on: August 27, 2010, 10:53:55 PM » by Ken Robson
Thank you, Sue!

                 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
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« Reply #40 on: August 29, 2010, 10:57:29 AM » by MichelleBethCronk
Ken, I'm enjoying my visits to this as I enter PC.

 - M
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« Reply #41 on: August 29, 2010, 06:16:42 PM » by Ken Robson
Michele,

I'm delighted that you are!

                         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: Sculls on the Charles
« Reply #42 on: August 29, 2010, 08:14:57 PM » by Tom Riordan
the soundboxes everywhere, including echoed "skull", very elegant.
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  Re: Sculls on the Charles
« Reply #43 on: August 30, 2010, 11:37:03 AM » by maggie flanagan-wilkie
Yes. Yes. And yes.
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  Re: Sculls on the Charles
« Reply #44 on: August 30, 2010, 12:41:23 PM » by Ken Robson
Tom and Maggie--

Thanks for your sound-waves on the Charles!


                                         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
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