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Capercaillie (for Tom)
Capercaillie, so beautiful
with your peacock-like tail spread,
and crimson markings above your eyes,
until tec tak killed you dead.
–Erthona
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Capercaille
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(10-14-2014, 09:17 PM)Erthona Wrote: Capercaillie (for Tom)
Capercaillie, so beautiful
with your peacock-like tail spread,
and crimson markings above your eyes,
until tic tac killed you dead.
–Erthona
©2014
Capercaille
Good Morning, dale, thanks for the google, I wanted to hear the sound.
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10-15-2014, 12:10 AM
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i have no idea how the poem came to be, but i do agree that tic tacs are lethal, at first i read it as tecktak
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^^me too billy, and i think that was the point.
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'killed you dead' is such a great line! As if you could be killed any other way.
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(10-14-2014, 09:17 PM)Erthona Wrote: Capercaillie (for Tom)
Capercaillie, so beautiful
with your peacock-like tail spread,
and crimson markings above your eyes,
until tec tak killed you dead.
–Erthona
©2014
Capercaille
It was not me...I was not there.
I will not do bird for this bird's demise.
Anyway, alive or dead, the crimson marks remain...I am in Capercaille country you know.
Best,
tectak
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Thanks everyone for giving it a read and commenting. As many of you have noted I misspelled Tom's nom de plume, which should be "tec tak." I broke it into for the slight pause.
JM The phrase "kill them dead" a provincial saying in the area in which I grew up. It kinda went hand in foot with "I'm gonna kill you deader than dead," and the ever popular, "I'm gonna kill you so dead you'll be sorry." I guess one would call it redundant hyperbole.
Quote:Tom wrote: "I am in Capercaille country you know."
Yes, with a shotgun cracked open, and lying over your arm, probably wearing a hunting jacket full of fresh game bird shotgun shells. Yet when the missus asks what we are having tonight Tom replies, "Scotch and...zzzzzz"
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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(10-17-2014, 11:30 AM)Erthona Wrote: Thanks everyone for giving it a read and commenting. As many of you have noted I misspelled Tom's nom de plume, which should be "tec tak." I broke it into for the slight pause.
JM The phrase "kill them dead" a provincial saying in the area in which I grew up. It kinda went hand in foot with "I'm gonna kill you deader than dead," and the ever popular, "I'm gonna kill you so dead you'll be sorry." I guess one would call it redundant hyperbole.
Quote:Tom wrote: "I am in Capercaille country you know."
Yes, with a shotgun cracked open, and lying over your arm, probably wearing a hunting jacket full of fresh game bird shotgun shells. Yet when the missus asks what we are having tonight Tom replies, "Scotch and...zzzzzz"
Dale
Duck.
tectak
