tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post4543958732065827602..comments2023-10-20T08:28:27.175-07:00Comments on Writerquake: Old Postcard Wednesday—Moonlight - Royal Gorge, ColoradoLydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11135393270656573516noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-1835609351478157512012-11-05T13:12:42.412-08:002012-11-05T13:12:42.412-08:00Folkways~ How nice of you to tell me you look forw...Folkways~ How nice of you to tell me you look forward to OPW and that you liked this Halloween one! My collection, honestly, is running low. I must organize myself to sell some in order to buy more!Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11135393270656573516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-66445340458230465612012-11-03T15:58:41.427-07:002012-11-03T15:58:41.427-07:00Always look forward to your old postcards. You mus...Always look forward to your old postcards. You must have quite a collection. Especially liked this one as Halloween is my favorite holiday.-- barbaraFolkways Note Bookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07168881905408345126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-66706743355655314732012-11-01T01:47:02.539-07:002012-11-01T01:47:02.539-07:00Pixies~ I learn so much from your comments! That p...Pixies~ I learn so much from your comments! That poem is a.mazing and interesting about the name connection with those books about wizards.<br /><br />I was stunned to read that you in the UK did not have Trick or Treating until after seeing it in ET. What a kick to think that it was passed on via a movie. That means you never went Trick or Treating when you were a little boy. How sad! It really was such fun (much more fun than buying/handing out candy as an adult). Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11135393270656573516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-43574621892046230282012-10-31T02:22:01.403-07:002012-10-31T02:22:01.403-07:00Secondly - i have a bit of a grudge to air here fo...Secondly - i have a bit of a grudge to air here for the USA and specifically for ET The Extra Terrestrial - because prior to that film we had barely heard of Trick Or Treating in the UK - and now i can look forward to a good three hours of kids i don't know demanding sweets with menaces :)<br /><br />Fortunately, as i usually do, i have made excuses to be out<br /><br />Still - i like your train poem and postcardDon't Feed The Pixieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05380146661526476947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039445774186145767.post-90193494928683746042012-10-31T02:20:09.048-07:002012-10-31T02:20:09.048-07:00so firstly - i have to respond to the poem with on...so firstly - i have to respond to the poem with one from William Topaz McGonnagle, famously recorded as the worst poet and immortalized more recently when JK Rowling stole his surname for a character in those books about wizards:<br /><br />The Tay Bridge Disaster<br /><br />Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!<br />Alas! I am very sorry to say<br />That ninety lives have been taken away<br />On the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br />Which will be remember’d for a very long time.<br /><br />’Twas about seven o’clock at night,<br />And the wind it blew with all its might,<br />And the rain came pouring down,<br />And the dark clouds seem’d to frown,<br />And the Demon of the air seem’d to say-<br />“I’ll blow down the Bridge of Tay.”<br /><br />When the train left Edinburgh<br />The passengers’ hearts were light and felt no sorrow,<br />But Boreas blew a terrific gale,<br />Which made their hearts for to quail,<br />And many of the passengers with fear did say-<br />“I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.”<br /><br />But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,<br />Boreas he did loud and angry bray,<br />And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay<br />On the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br />Which will be remember’d for a very long time.<br /><br />So the train sped on with all its might,<br />And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight,<br />And the passengers’ hearts felt light,<br />Thinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year,<br />With their friends at home they lov’d most dear,<br />And wish them all a happy New Year.<br /><br />So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,<br />Until it was about midway,<br />Then the central girders with a crash gave way,<br />And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!<br />The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,<br />Because ninety lives had been taken away,<br />On the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br />Which will be remember’d for a very long time.<br /><br />As soon as the catastrophe came to be known<br />The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,<br />And the cry rang out all o’er the town,<br />Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,<br />And a passenger train from Edinburgh,<br />Which fill’d all the peoples hearts with sorrow,<br />And made them for to turn pale,<br />Because none of the passengers were sav’d to tell the tale<br />How the disaster happen’d on the last Sabbath day of 1879,<br />Which will be remember’d for a very long time.<br /><br />It must have been an awful sight,<br />To witness in the dusky moonlight,<br />While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,<br />Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,<br />Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay,<br />I must now conclude my lay<br />By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,<br />That your central girders would not have given way,<br />At least many sensible men do say,<br />Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,<br />At least many sensible men confesses,<br />For the stronger we our houses do build,<br />The less chance we have of being killed.<br />Don't Feed The Pixieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05380146661526476947noreply@blogger.com