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This is Just to Say

by William Carlos Williams

 

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

 

 

 

 

You're welcome

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Ancilla Domini

   

This is Just to Say

by William Carlos Williams

 

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

 

 

 

 

You're welcome

 

 

Tableau at Twilight,

by Ogden Nash

 

I sit in the dusk. I am all alone.
Enter a child and an ice-cream cone.

A parent is easily beguiled
By sight of this coniferous child.

The friendly embers warmer gleam,
The cone begins to drip ice cream.

Cones are composed of many a vitamin.
My lap is not the place to bitamin.

Although my raiment is not chinchilla,
I flinch to see it become vanilla.

Coniferous child, when vanilla melts
I’d rather it melted somewhere else.

Exit child with remains of cone.
I sit in the dusk. I am all alone,

Muttering spells like an angry Druid,
Alone, in the dusk, with the cleaning fluid.

 

 

 

 

You're welcome.

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That was most excellent. 

 

 

He Foretells His Passing 
by F. D. Reeve 

I can imagine, years from now, your coming back
to this high, old, white house. "Home" I shouldn't say
because we can't predict who'll live here with a different 
     name. 
How tall the birches will be then. Will you look up
from the road past the ash for light in the study windows
upstairs and down? Go climb the black maple as first
in new sneakers you walked forty feet in air
and saw the life to come. Don't forget the cats.

Because you grow away from a house, no matter how much you 
     come back,
if the people you love are elsewhere, or if the reason is, 
     say,
nostalgia, don't worry about small changes or lost names.
Sit down for a minute under the tallest birch. Look up
at the clouds reflected in the red barn's twisted window.
Lean on the wall. Hear our voices as at first
they shook the plaster, laughed, then burned in the dry air
like a wooden house. I imagine you won't forget the cats.

 

Edited by Deus_te_Amat
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Ancilla Domini

My voice teacher just gave me a new song - Gabriel Faurè's "En Prière."

Now I'm preparing three songs:

Caro Mio Ben, by Giuseppe Giordani

The Moon and I, by William S. Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan

En Prière, by Gabriel Faurè

:)

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Ancilla Domini

What would you all say is your very favorite city/town in the world?

Favorite country?

 

If you were given a blank airplane ticket, where would you go?

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ChristinaTherese

Assisi, Corbie, Rome or Lisieux for a blank check for a trip. Favorite place would have to be the mountains somewhere.

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Ancilla Domini

I've applied! Today, I sent in my submission to audition to the Juilliard pre-college voice program. :)

My mom: Now, all you have to do is sing!

 

Sure thing! :whistle:

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Ancilla Domini

Going to see Borodin's Prince Igor at the Metropolitan Opera House, tomorrow night!! :yahoo:

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Ancilla Domini

Borodin! I've liked everything of his that I've heard. Enjoy!

 

I love Borodin! His second string quartet is, I believe, my very favorite string quartet ever. I'm looking forward to it!

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ChristinaTherese

Um. Yes, That is a lovely quartet. I need to listen to it again, sometime when I can just relax into the music.

By the way, have you read/seen The Importance of Being Earnest? It's a good play, by Oscar Wilde. I might go see it with some friends in a couple of weeks.

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