Retraction.

"Svend" (svend) 05/01/2020 at 06:39 • Filed to: None

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Poem posted a few minutes by myself, turns out was composed in 2020 but has been circulated as being from 1869 and released again in 1919 at the time of the Spanish Flu. 

Wacko > Svend 05/01/2020 at 08:20

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Was it this?

Roses are red, viole ts are blue

the Spanish flu is gonna kill you too.

DasWauto > Wacko 05/01/2020 at 08:36

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Roses are red, violets are blue.

If you’re not dead, you will be soon. 

Svend > Wacko 05/01/2020 at 08:39

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No, a bit more wordy.

And people stayed at home
And read books
And listened
And they rested
And did exercises
And made art and played
And learned new ways of being
And stopped and listened
More deeply
Someone meditated, someone prayed
Someone met their shadow
And people began to think differently
And people healed.
And in the absence of people who
Lived in ignorant ways
Dangerous, meaningless and heartless,
The earth also began to heal
And when the danger ended and
People found themselves
They grieved for the dead
And made new choices
And dreamed of new visions
And created new ways of living
And completely healed the earth
Just as they were healed.

Nom De Plume > Svend 05/01/2020 at 09:46

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Good on ya Svend, that was lovely. I retract my good natured, but ill received, punt at you for being British while discussing France’s impact on which side of the road a given country drives up on.

Svend > Nom De Plume 05/01/2020 at 10:12

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Lol. No worries.