Some days, I sit and rot
just as old boats do
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Hello World 
PS The above poem is traditionally entitled, “What the Thrush Said,” as Keats depicts it as a message he received from watching a thrush outside his window… I should have put this above, as it explains who the “I” of the poem is (the thrush).
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have the ability to “dash off” such an evocative poem?
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If you’ll excuse a far-too-long reply, your remark on this pic made me think of a poem Keats dashed off within a letter to a friend:
O thou whose face hath felt the Winter’s wind,
Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mist,
And the black elm tops ‘mong the freezing stars!
To thee the spring will be a harvest time.
O thou whose only book has been the light
Of supreme darkness, which thou feddest on
Night after night, when Phoebus was away!
To thee the spring shall be a triple morn.
O fret not after knowledge. I have none,
And yet my song comes native with the warmth.
O fret not after knowledge! I have none.
And yet the evening listens. He who saddens
At thought of idleness cannot be idle,
And he’s awake who thinks himself asleep.
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What a pretty little moment this be!
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Thank you, Laura!
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Sometimes it’s good to sit back and watch the world rush by. And what better place to do that than Venice, the most timeless place I’ve discovered
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And, Venice owns so many special places where one can practice that form of meditation, Rob.
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Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.
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Good one, Bert. And, the beauty is that no one looking at us would know which we’re doing!
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Think of the adventures that this boat might share!
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There, another similarity, Randy. 🙂
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I agree….there is no resemblance. You may feel like sitting and rotting…but you will do it much more gracefully than any old boat.
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Well, when I think of the bottom of a gondola, and my well developed “SBS” *, there is a similarity!
* Square Bottom Syndrome, due to devoting too much time at the computer.
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Yup, you’re back in that will, Darnit!
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chuckle – but you look much much better than the boat!!
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