Rudyard Kipling
“Now in Injia’s suny clime,Where I used to serve my timeA-serving of her majesty, the Queen,Of all that black-faced crewThe finest man I knewWas our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din.”
September, 2008
Selected verse-Gunga Din #5
apologies to Kipling’s -Gunga din #4
Each morning, the computer club ,president, Bill Kelly, is there to greet the early arrivals and fewer , if none, are earlier that Robert and Len.Thank you, Bill; thank you, Robert and Len.
Read the rest of this entry »with apologies to Kipling’s -Gunga din #3
Yes, coming down 105th ave to the computer club I!m swamped by a gaggle of geese and have to wait for them to scatter before I proceed to meet a gaggle of geesers-I mispoke –some golden seasoned seniors.
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Nuggets of gold-din#2
Robert and Len are the keepers of the realm and they are here at the computer club to welcome me each morning-nuggets of gold ,indeed!!!!
But the obstacles I have to face to meet the gold dust twins face to face-stayed tuned-see din #3
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling’s Gunga Din -1
Now in Sun City’s sunny climeWhere I’m prone to spend my timea’serving in the computer lineOf all them seasoned-faced crewThe fines men I knewWere the nuggets of goldRobert and Len.
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Renascence-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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ChildrenAnd a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, “Speak to us of Children.”And he said:Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.You may give them your [...]
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