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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: PPB: Velvet Shoes / Elinor Wylie
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 17:13:19 +0000
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George J. Dance wrote:
> General-Zod wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote
>>> General-Zod wrote:
>
>>>> On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 3:20:12 PM UTC-5, George J. wrote:
>>>>> Faraway Star wrote:
>>>>> > On Friday, January 5, 2024 at 12:00:15 PM UTC-5, George J. wrote:
>
>>>>> >> Penny's Poetry Blog's featured poem for January:
>>>>> >> Velvet Shoes, by Elinor Wylie
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Let us walk in the white snow
>>>>> >> In a soundless space;
>>>>> >> With footsteps quiet and slow,
>>>>> >> At a tranquil pace,
>>>>> >> Under veils of white lace.
>>>>> >> [...]
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2011/01/velvet-shoes-elinor-wylie_19.html
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> #pennyspoems
>>>>>
>>>>> > Excellent find excellent read GD...
>>>>> Thank you for commenting and giving more people a chance to read it,
>>>>> Zod. It is indeed an excellent poem, and Wylie is a major talent who's
>>>>> sadly been mainly forgotten.
>>>>>
>>>>> She published 3 collections of poetry and 4 novels in the 1920s, but
>>>>> died in 1928 aged just 43. At the time of her death she was married to
>>>>> her third husband, poet William Rose Benet; his poem "Sagacity" is about
>>>>> her.
>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2010/09/sagacity-william-rose-benet.html
>
>>>> Hi there G.D....
>
>>>> Can ye see this here post today...?
>
>>> Yes; I'm not having a problem reading your posts. I saw your Danchall
>>> topic on RAP, too. So, to bring this thread back on topic; did you watch
>>> the video of this poem on PPB? It's something I've added to my list for
>>> the "fusion" Dancehall. (Unfortunately, I don't know who's singing.)
>
>>> Elinor Wylie - Velvet Shoes
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0k-4dRP-kQ
>
>> Going for a look-see now... and hope that "FUSION" is not too much of a
>> nebulous topic..!
>
> It is vague. I think that won't matter for posting, since I expect only
> the four of us, and we all understand it by now. But I am worried about
> viewers finding it on YT or wherever and having no idea what it is. I
> don't have a better one, though. I'm thinking of adding "(of poetry and
> music)" onto the title; how does that work for you?

Coming into this discussion late, but interesting reading.

🙂