Rock Solid Logic
Plymouth Rock at Plymouth Hah-bah is a favorite place6 total reviews
Comment from JLR
Reese, this is a very well delivered poem for the Earth Day contest. Your rhyming is not forced and is a fine entry. I wish you success in this and all of your writing endeavors. ps thanks for your service.
reply by the author on 25-Apr-2022
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Reese, this is a very well delivered poem for the Earth Day contest. Your rhyming is not forced and is a fine entry. I wish you success in this and all of your writing endeavors. ps thanks for your service.
Comment Written 24-Apr-2022
reply by the author on 25-Apr-2022
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Honored that you would mention my service and read my earth day poem. Thanks for dropping by. I was reminded by yours of the devastation of Haiti. There is nothing left for that poor country. Best Regards, Reese
Comment from Tom Horonzy
You have me laughing. The words you have written has me sittin pretty at my desktop chopping out letters saying a very good job. I might have asked the same if I had visited there. To h... with AOC and the Bern.
reply by the author on 25-Apr-2022
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You have me laughing. The words you have written has me sittin pretty at my desktop chopping out letters saying a very good job. I might have asked the same if I had visited there. To h... with AOC and the Bern.
Comment Written 24-Apr-2022
reply by the author on 25-Apr-2022
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I laugh at they who are so certain of impending doom based on computer extrapolations, but ignore the obvious like 1620 chisled on Plymouth Rock. Or, our own Galveston Seawall circa 1905 - the sea touches comes at highest tide and retreats away at low. And, that they that Norwegian teenager and the Queens waitress such credibility is laughable. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll tell that ranger hello for you in July.
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What wasn't to like?
Comment from pome lover
very good.
Responding to the ranger's remark: "we don't get much global warming here," I'd add, "we don't either, and neither does anybody else!"
At least the man is proud of his state's heritage, and isn't destroying the rock. (though he was rude to you)
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2022
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very good.
Responding to the ranger's remark: "we don't get much global warming here," I'd add, "we don't either, and neither does anybody else!"
At least the man is proud of his state's heritage, and isn't destroying the rock. (though he was rude to you)
Comment Written 22-Apr-2022
reply by the author on 22-Apr-2022
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Good onya, as they say in Oz, for stopping by. Glad you enjoyed my report in rhyme of an actual event. See, I married a Mass yankee (I had been drinking) many years ago and we are in Plymouth at the Rock area often. And, I actually did raise that question after the ranger's presentation. Anyway, please allow this Texan to tell you a tale if your "pome" does mean "prisoner of mother England". I once traveled to Oz every year on business. On my first trip, I was making the circuit of customer stores and boarded a plane in Adelaide for an overnight flight to Perth. A smiling Aussie found his seat next to me and said "Good-day, mate, how ya goin'" I replied, "good-evening, pardner. I'm great and how are you?" He buckled up and we chatted a bit, "So, first trip to Oz, is it? So, how ya finding Oz?" I answered, "Except for y'all driving on the wrong side of the road, its just like Texas. It's hot. People are friendly. You all love beer. There are poisonous snakes and there are two cities who constantly claim to be the best at everything, Melbourne and Sydney - the battle rages on every subject - its just like Dallas and Houston at home." He laughed loudly and said, "Yeah, and those of us in Adelaide or Perth know they're arguing over third place at best!" Fair dinkum! Hope I did not bore you, but I miss Oz and love to tell the story.
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and a good story it is.
I love Texas, though I'm not native born. I'm a Gawja gal from the deep South, but I don't miss it. I love the independent spirit of the people here, and if the crazies do take over this country, I think we should secede - team up with Florida.
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hadn't thought of your interpretation of "pome." At the time when I was searching for a pen name, I was just being silly. Once I suggested to Tom, the FS guru, that I change it, and he said since that was the name members knew me by, he'd suggest that I didn't, so seems I'm stuck with it. Some think I can't spell.
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Well, now you know what Australians call visitors or first generation immigrants from England. There is another word often used as suffix. Starts with a b... Glad you like Texas I've lived in New york, New Jersey and traveled most. Now, wife and I are selling our home in the cuntry near Brenham and packing the motorhome. We plan to spend four months a year in New England, four or five around here near the grandkids and the other wherever... In our 70s, we are running away from home!
Comment from Susan Newell
Reese,
You have me quite a chuckle with this. For a long, but deeply informational article about "rising tides" you might find the following link interesting. It's worth the time.
Sue
https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/09/24/alarmists-are-in-way-over-their-heads-on-rising-ocean-claims/?sh=3e4c7f121194
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2022
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Reese,
You have me quite a chuckle with this. For a long, but deeply informational article about "rising tides" you might find the following link interesting. It's worth the time.
Sue
https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/09/24/alarmists-are-in-way-over-their-heads-on-rising-ocean-claims/?sh=3e4c7f121194
Comment Written 21-Apr-2022
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2022
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You are right. It is long. A little longer than my ADD could take, but the reality is well understood: the earth has cycles. I find it so amusing that a rock, dated 1620, positioned near the epicenter of liberal logic, is dry except for at the highest tides. Do liberals never recognize a truth, a reality? No, because then they would not be liberals! I was hoping you would see this one!
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So true. Policies and positions are irrational, illogical and inconsistent.
Comment from Alcreator Litt Dear
Yours, ours and theirs, all surprise to see the Plymouth Rock at Plymouth Hah-bah, though sea is rising, there is no change in this place rock solid logic is visible, we should remember the power of Earth, warming of the earth is not visible here, since 1620 it is here; God's creation and activities are beyond man's science and knowledge; well said, well done; post god speed more; positively encouraging editing, negatively not wording, forgiving errors of theist-good authors-writers. ALCREATOR LITT DEAR (D R)
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2022
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Yours, ours and theirs, all surprise to see the Plymouth Rock at Plymouth Hah-bah, though sea is rising, there is no change in this place rock solid logic is visible, we should remember the power of Earth, warming of the earth is not visible here, since 1620 it is here; God's creation and activities are beyond man's science and knowledge; well said, well done; post god speed more; positively encouraging editing, negatively not wording, forgiving errors of theist-good authors-writers. ALCREATOR LITT DEAR (D R)
Comment Written 21-Apr-2022
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2022
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Thanks for stopping by. It is a more tortured poem than I usually write, but twelve lines is not much for a Texan to tell a story. It is a true story, however.
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
An interesting subject. I lived in New England for 26 years and never made it up to "the rock". Technically, you've met the requirements of 12 lines in your 3 stanzas, but except for the 10th and 12th lines, I don't see much of a rhyming scheme - also a requirement. If this is for a contest, you may want to revisit this in editing.
Good luck and have a nice day up there in the Northeast.
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2022
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An interesting subject. I lived in New England for 26 years and never made it up to "the rock". Technically, you've met the requirements of 12 lines in your 3 stanzas, but except for the 10th and 12th lines, I don't see much of a rhyming scheme - also a requirement. If this is for a contest, you may want to revisit this in editing.
Good luck and have a nice day up there in the Northeast.
Comment Written 21-Apr-2022
reply by the author on 21-Apr-2022
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In Texas English, lines 2 and 4, originally rhymes with barked at me and in lines 6 and 8 right now rhymes with somehow. It rhymes to me, but thanks for stopping by. It is tortured, but 12 lines is not much for a Texan to tell a story. Our usual mantra is, "why use one word when twelve willl do"