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Date Posted: 09:12:28 02/26/03 Wed
Author: Raphaela
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Subject: Re: Irish Joys!
In reply to: Laraine Smith 's message, "Irish Joys!" on 20:01:36 02/25/03 Tue

Well I know my Irish friends will be celebrating St Patricks day here.

I would like to see the series of exclamations developed further - perhaps with more description - or extended to 'show' their feelings and reactions. This would help to give the poem greater depth.

Just my humble opinion. Good to see you here Laraine.

Raphaela

>On the 17th of March,
>I have come to The Irish Heavens to forget the tears
>of my past years!
>This is where the people are showing pride in green!
>Today, they are rejoicing the Irish way of life!
>They have come here to the States!
>We will listen to their music!
>We should not neglect to heed the ones connected to us!
>Many of them moved away from their homeland!
>They were turning into crowds when they came to the
>New World!
>When you travel to their land, places and people will
>help!
>You will enjoy what you find!
>
>
>DEDICATION: This poem makes me smile! It is made up of
>one of the many entries to www.poetry.com's "Poetry in
>Motion Contest" from the summer of 2001! I am also
>proud of where the other research comes from!
>
>With help from Microsoft Encarta 2002, I went to
>www.pbs.org! In the past, I had dreamed of using
>research from there for my writings. But it was not
>until I started working on this poem that this dream
>finally became a reality for me!
>
>I had never known what genealogy was until I read an
>article about it in "Kiwanis Magazine!" Unfortunately,
>this Kiwanis Club broke up in 1997. But that did not
>keep my understanding of geneaology from coming in
>handy!

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