tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6057018157135358549..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Only for the BiodiverseFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-31329122964618375092020-09-05T20:28:41.629+01:002020-09-05T20:28:41.629+01:00"Budgieful, simply budgieful" (Bernard M..."Budgieful, simply budgieful" (Bernard Matthews Hopkins).Atticushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03537205387276510875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81957370108141242752020-09-05T12:42:50.339+01:002020-09-05T12:42:50.339+01:00I do wish ABS would, if he cannot restrain himself...I do wish ABS would, if he cannot restrain himself at all, at least stick to the topic of the post... Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03983955289507752980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-52862379685819690152020-09-05T12:24:42.153+01:002020-09-05T12:24:42.153+01:00One can't, alas, just add a phrase to the poem...One can't, alas, just add a phrase to the poem. It's a conventional sonnet in structure, so five iambic feet per line, though Hopkins' trademark 'sprung rhythm' makes the second line - the one you quote - look much longer. The only thing I can think of, since you say that cuckoos have (presumably) been absent, is to eliminate them and rewrite:<br /><br /> <b>Parakeet-parked, Sue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-58420049679972158032020-09-05T10:43:57.872+01:002020-09-05T10:43:57.872+01:00O pie parakete....O pie parakete....Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264379572686048595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68118818039155255012020-09-05T00:44:53.269+01:002020-09-05T00:44:53.269+01:00paradisal parakeets...paradisal parakeets...Hickory Bowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15268946217889661139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43669946709533938612020-09-04T20:13:46.242+01:002020-09-04T20:13:46.242+01:00Dear Father. ABS figured out how to share the Amer...Dear Father. ABS figured out how to share the American Bishops public adoption of The Americanist Proposition/Heresy.<br /><br />O, and give credit to the CIA, JC Murray and Henry Luce for they succeeded in, apparently, changing Catholic Doctor on Religious Liberty at Vatican Two. They won.<br /><br />+++++++++++++++++++<br /><br />1948 AmBishops collectively jump into the Americanist Heresy Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-612581973017786032020-09-04T17:20:16.026+01:002020-09-04T17:20:16.026+01:00. . . “winding ancient Streets, with Parakeets . ..... . . “winding ancient Streets, with Parakeets . . .”Zephyrinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01179350648709554049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-58210680318158153982020-09-04T12:31:08.421+01:002020-09-04T12:31:08.421+01:00Parakeets first appeared in our local woods in Sus...Parakeets first appeared in our local woods in Sussex over 30 years ago. I understand they grew a second set of feathers in order to survive our winters.Pelerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242844701379703515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-3127124029679360752020-09-04T11:41:20.475+01:002020-09-04T11:41:20.475+01:00How about "budgie-thronged"? Budgerigars...How about "budgie-thronged"? Budgerigars are parakeets. I don't know if the Oxford flocks are of that particular kind, but they would at least have been familiar to Manley-Hopkins. Queen Victoria was presented with a pair in 1845, after which it became de rigeur for fashionable homes to have them too.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05174247888532190924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81061160869614475352020-09-04T11:05:22.776+01:002020-09-04T11:05:22.776+01:00Bless me Father,but I must confess that as a child...Bless me Father,but I must confess that as a child I (and my classmates) did indeed confuse Paraclete and parakeet. Moreover, some of us wondered if 'laetificat' had something to do with felines. But later out teachers made us literate by teaching us Latin.PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.com