Thank you all :) Been meaning to pen something like this for years. The announcement of the upcoming TV series spurred me on to re-read the whole series (just ~15 pages to go!). And so that spurred me on--just what sort of poem is it? And it came to me: gots to be a villanelle: catch-phrase needs repetition, and the formal villanelle structure then lays out for me how to fill in the rest. Then the theme; has to be a lot of grim-dark, but that shouldn't be all of it--there needs to be a turn, as well. And so then it was just filling out the syllables :) Stacey On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Lawrence Jenab <larryjenab@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, great job! Thanks for sharing.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:16 PM, B. Alan Wheeler via glencook-fans < glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Thanks for sharing that. Great job.
On 6/11/2017 11:20 PM, Stacey Harris wrote:
I long thought "Soldiers live. And wonder why." must be a quotation from a poem. But apparently not. I thought it should be.
Soldiers live. And wonder why. Clatter and clash, the dice of fate. Wake, o Brothers! Born to die.
Dawn arises, the sacred lie. Twilight lands with awful weight. Soldiers live. And wonder why.
Promise beckons in youthful eye. Wisdom comes with later date. Wake, o Brothers! Born to die.
The call is heard—to answer, fly! Meet the need when need is great. Soldiers live. And wonder why.
Duty’s done; but needs still lie Unfulfilled, the hour late. Wake, o Brothers! Born to die.
Strike the camp, pass on by. Honor calls; we shall not wait. Soldiers live. And wonder why. Wake, o Brothers! Born to die.
-- --==From the mailbox of Alan Wheeler==--
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