Charles Louis

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  1. Charles Louis

    Charles Louis Well-Known Member
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    If only it could be still again
    like it was on winter afternoons
    at twenty minutes past five,
    when the day
    seemed to have
    laid down its arms
    before entering
    the truce tent of night.

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    @Charles Louis , your words paint a picture in my mind of snowy winter afternoons I have seen.

    Welcome to SoC!
     
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    Beautiful.
     
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  7. Hal Pollner

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    A really big WELCOME to you, Charles Louis!

    At 97, you've got to be the eldest on the Forum, for sure!
    Hal, age 84
     
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    Interesting blog, Charles. Welcome to SOC. I particularly like your 9/11 poem; hope you don't mind that I shared it here:

    Nine Eleven

    On September eleven
    when it happened
    while we watched
    we could not help thinking about
    our own thin brick walls
    left standing around us
    here, in the heartland.

    Walled in between
    panic and gratitude
    we sat gaping,
    not noticing
    how our helpless tears
    would not stop falling.
     
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    @Charles Louis, please let me know if you'd like me to change the title of this thread to something more descriptive of your site.
     
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    It looks like he made a mistake on his age, @Hal Pollner , and was actually born in 1933. So, Charles is still older than you, but not as much as it appeared.
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    Welcome, sir. I, too, was born in 1933. It was the height of the depression but here we are.
     
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    I read a number of the Butler Pennsylvania Poems this evening. Those I read I liked. Very good, thinks I.
    I did look to see if you had posted here to any extent or merely wanted your poems out there. Like to see
    more of you on the forum as a participant. Some of like the prose poems. Yours are most worthwhile.
    Thanks for the read.
     
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