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freshwest

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5. A favorite poem about our lives, our duties, and how brief life is.

Reply to sheshe2 (Reply #4)

Tue Nov 19, 2013, 02:58 AM

Nov 2013

That one is certainly one of my favorite, more haunting than The road Less Travelled.

They have been very big influences, like much of another great New England writer, Thoreau. I've always kept a copy of Thoreau's works wherever I've gone.

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Bless his heart, she~ Cha Nov 2013 #1

Thank you my dear Cha~ sheshe2 Nov 2013 #2

Good to be here with the good hearts. Nothing but snapping and growling elsewhere. What gives? freshwest Nov 2013 #6

More about tears from RFK on the terrible day that MLK was murdered: freshwest Nov 2013 #3

Oh, freshwest so sad and yet beautiful. sheshe2 Nov 2013 #4

A favorite poem about our lives, our duties, and how brief life is. freshwest Nov 2013 #5

Robert Frost's one of my favorites also. I used to recite that poem repeatedly IrishAyes Nov 2013 #7

Thank you so much, sheshe. IrishAyes Nov 2013 #8

You are welcome, IrishAyes~ sheshe2 Nov 2013 #9