i
kathy and heathcliff were back on the moors
he was deep in payback she high on scorn
overhead the billigits flewly flew
and called how often do you need be warned
ii
heathcliff stated he knew no other stance
kathy averred love’s suicidal dance
happily unhappy ever after
was their idea of lively romance
iii
the billigits were nonplussedly nonplussed
in a world where wonders were surplus
that two would choose melodrama and hurt
o’er heaven on the moors felt unjust
iv
heaven is company manners said he
yawning in churches and faked bliss said she
and the billigits flew home enlightened
that the two ghostly ghosts could not make three
Saragun Springs 
Oh I say!! What are those billigits suggesting?
I love the happily unhappy line.
Thanks – dd
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Thank you Diane!
Yes, the billies hold many opinions. Not all of them are popular, but they are usually correct.
Leila
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Leila
The episodic reappearance of K and H is one of the many genius aspects of this in-progress poem! It can be seen as a 21st century Nonsense Literature version of the way Shakespeare reinvented the story of Cleopatra and Antony which Billie took from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. (I also magpied the full name of Boo – Bucephalus – from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives…)
Reminds me of the eternal Dylan lines from Street Legal:
“Are you so fast that you cannot see that I must have solitude? / When I am in the darkness, why do you intrude? / Do you know my world, do you know my kind / Or must I explain? / Will you let me be myself / Or is your love in vain?”
“D”
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K and H have been a great aid in this. I keep thinking about the moorly moors.
Thank you Dale!
Leila
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……….I recently had a dream that I was wandering around on the moors even though I’ve never been to England (or not in person, or not in this life, anyway)….I was alone and I was looking for someone……don’t remember if I was sleeping during this dream or not…..
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“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness – / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!”
FYI – I NEVER copy and paste – I always type whatever I send, every single time and without any exceptions, ever, here, anywhere, and everywhere – no joke…..(it’s one of my own personal moral stipulations)….
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Hi Dale
You have an amazing memory. It’s great to use the mind! Those who lean on machines tend to become vegetables.
Thank you!
Leila
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I have seen many and many who could have been much better than they are become a lot more vegetable-like due to their refusal to use the brain, and the soul, God gave them. It’s a very sad state of affairs, and runs rampant in this declining culture. I often think of something you once said – nature has a way of thinning the herd. Perhaps that’s what climate change is truly about. The Flood, and Noah and his crew, are more true than people who don’t take the Bible literally believe they are, perhaps. Great symbols = great stories that tell the truth…..Thank you!
Dale
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Inadequate adverbs and exposition.
Mr. Mirth
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Hullo Mr. Mirth
I’m genuinely curious about the definition of “exposition.” This is a slippery term, that has shades of gray surrounding it, also depending upon who’s using it, and in what context, etc etc. Wondering what is meant by this exactly? Also, I really do think I know what an adverbly adverb is – most of the time…
Thanks!
Mr. Dictionary
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“Exposition” Something literary types like to criticize.
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Thank you, Mirthly one
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Technical innovations will often look like “breaking the rules” at first (to many), while the truth is, what they are = a leap forward in the evolution of writing; otherwise known as breaking new ground for future writers.
Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs and Charles Bukowski got endlessly slammed for “breaking the rules” (naughty naughty, they were told). God bless them for refusing to write within the pre-approved molds and modes – or the old, moldy modes, in other words.
All the other scientists on the Planet laughed their -sses off at Einstein when he first showed up with his E = MC2. Wonder who gets the last laugh…..Maybe that’s why he was sticking his tongue out at everybody.
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I think Einstein could have written his own rubaiyat!
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Leila
Anyone who could explain the universe with three letters, one number, and one symbol probably could have produced a few quatrains.
But I don’t think he could’ve matched you in your profuseness and brilliance.
But I do think he’s probably reading these billigit rubaiyat right now…in a visionary kinda way….or maybe flying around in the air with the billigits with his eternal violin under his arm, hair blowing back above the river (of air)
Dale
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Hi Leila
Testing this after fixing (I think) my recent computer issues. I was able to fix (I think) those issues because of your counsel and advice. You have helped me in so many ways I’ll never be able to thank you enough. When Jesus hung on the cross, all his men friends were terrified and ran away and hid (even Peter, who very much made up for this later) and only a few of his women friends were brave enough to stay with him until the end. I consider you my BFF, my editor, my counselor (you saved me from a depression after Trump got elected with your wise advice), my mentor, and a massive inspiration for my own writing and again, I CAN NEVER say thank you enough.
Dale
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Hi Leila
Testing this after fixing (I think) my recent computer issues. I was able to fix (I think) those issues because of your counsel and advice. You have helped me in so many ways I’ll never be able to thank you enough. When Jesus hung on the cross, all his men friends were terrified and ran away and hid (even Peter, who very much made up for this later) and only a few of his women friends were brave enough to stay with him until the end. I consider you my BFF, my editor, my counselor (you saved me from a depression after Trump got elected with your wise advice), my mentor, and a massive inspiration for my own writing and again, I CAN NEVER say thank you enough.
Dale
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