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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BALLADEER!

08-18-2010 at 01:11:35 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BALLADEER!

I've heard it through the grapevine that today, August 18, is your birthday. You have brightened the pages of OP with your poetry and also made poetry school fun. Thank you for what you've brought to this site. Wishing you a very, happy day!

A grateful student,

Aria

08-18-2010 at 03:15:09 AM

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BALLADEER!

Happy Birthday, Mr Balladeer, smile

WS
student/friend

09-10-2010 at 07:01:33 PM

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BALLADEER!

Thanks to you both! It feels good being 35 (in dog years!)shock

09-10-2010 at 09:56:38 PM

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BALLADEER!


Dear Sir Teacher - Poet Friend Balladeer ~

... it's true... I completely missed your birthday...

but the wishes reach across the time vaults
along with this 3 week old birthday cake...

.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.
l__________l
l__________l


... and thank you for your poetic instructions and challenges ...

ps ... don't eat the cake

09-10-2010 at 10:27:24 PM

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BALLADEER!

Awww...thank you, Susan! That's the nicest birthday cake I got this year....actually the only one!tongue wink

You are very sweet and I appreciate your friendship.kiss

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.