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Petra Hernandez's avatar

Great poem, Melanie! I love how you describe the personalities at play and they way they interact with the environment. I felt like I was watching the scene rather than reading it.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Thank you. I was really trying for visual immediacy I’m glad that worked.

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Ann Collins's avatar

children dart back and forth like busy

sanderlings. From one railing to the other

A beautiful poem about relishing the time together.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Thank you, Ann.

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Chuck's avatar

You know that sound?

when a gaggle of geese fly overhead and they are finally all in good flying formation so they have stopped honking directions at each other and all you can hear is their wings flapping?

Thats a pretty kool sound.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Oh yeah. I love it.

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SDG's avatar

Melanie, have you ever seen Tom Moore’s animated film Song of the Sea (Cartoon Saloon)? It opens with that refrain from Yeats—and the cartoon that follows earns it!

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

Oh yes! Song of the Sea is a favorite. So beautiful. I had forgotten that it uses the Yeats, though.

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