Arsenic

When knowledge is poison
             Bad apples bear fruit





10.26.2019

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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Date: 12/29/2019 4:26:00 PM
Maureen congrats on Honorable motion!;)
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 12/30/2019 8:42:00 AM
Thank you Brenda, Happy New Year Hugs! xomo
Date: 10/31/2019 9:14:00 PM
I keep returning to this to remind myself, I need to memorize it... I love it so... Hugs. Ann
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 11/1/2019 8:57:00 AM
Thank you so much Ann, thrilled! Hugs and blessings for a wonderful weekend! xomo
Date: 10/31/2019 11:22:00 AM
Excellent poetic statement on the misuse of knowledge. Janice
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 11/1/2019 8:22:00 AM
Thank you Janice! xomo
Date: 10/30/2019 9:21:00 AM
Very effective!
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/31/2019 7:38:00 AM
Thankya! ;), xomo
Date: 10/30/2019 8:28:00 AM
Wow!
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/30/2019 8:43:00 AM
;), Thankya! ~x
Date: 10/28/2019 7:54:00 PM
So true and sometimes that bad apple spoils the whole barrel!
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/29/2019 7:06:00 AM
Yes, yes it does ;), xomo!
Date: 10/28/2019 2:15:00 AM
So true!! So powerful!!
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/28/2019 7:24:00 AM
Thank you Swetha! xomo :)))
Date: 10/27/2019 3:42:00 PM
Wow. Ouch! I love it. I memorized it. I am sharing it on... you are a master... Ann
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/28/2019 7:23:00 AM
I'm blushing. Thank you Lovely! xomo
Date: 10/27/2019 12:57:00 PM
Ooh!...a stinger of truth...great Epigram Mo...^WW^ :o)
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/28/2019 7:14:00 AM
Thank you Wing'ed One! Hugs xomo
Date: 10/27/2019 8:43:00 AM
clever write... i was shocked to learn the seeds had arsenic in them, you delivered a powerful verse in so few words...:) hugs
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 9:03:00 AM
Thank you Sandra! That's why you don't let dogs eat apple cores. ;), xomo!
Date: 10/27/2019 8:02:00 AM
KNOWLEDGE is the wrong Minds..."DANGER"
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:38:00 AM
Oh yes, welll said my friend! xomo
Date: 10/27/2019 4:25:00 AM
yes... you are right..
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:36:00 AM
Now I'm bona fide ;), Thank you my friend! xomo
Date: 10/27/2019 3:35:00 AM
Extraordinary dearest, Maureen !
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:35:00 AM
Thank you my dear sweet D, xomo <3!
Date: 10/26/2019 9:10:00 PM
Ha! You have a magic touch for the pithy and precise. Thanks Maureen.
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:29:00 AM
...wanted to title it Arse'nic, but figured that was too far ;p
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:28:00 AM
My long and flowery impediment ;), Thank YOU Eric! xomo
Date: 10/26/2019 8:53:00 PM
Yes!! they do!! A zinger, Mo! :-) gw
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:26:00 AM
Thank you my friend! I was writing about something else when my muse insisted on this. I obeyed ;), Hugs! xomo
Date: 10/26/2019 7:47:00 PM
Brilliant, I was waiting for the "old lace" reference but your thoughts oh so much better
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Ts Poetry
Date: 10/27/2019 9:39:00 AM
As long as the old lady is wearing a happy face :))
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:25:00 AM
I have just caught on to the reference ;), What do you do when you live in a shoe? Move to a boot and get laced. ~xomo!
Date: 10/26/2019 5:50:00 PM
Alas, poor Snow White is still hanging out with the dwarfs.....
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:23:00 AM
I dunno, my prince better let me still hang out with the guys...
Date: 10/26/2019 4:44:00 PM
When bad apple (trees) bear fruit it's definitely a bad sign!! After all these years, the tree of knowledge still comes to haunt us, Maureen! Regards // paul
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:21:00 AM
Yes it does ;), Thank you Paul! xomo
Date: 10/26/2019 3:56:00 PM
So well said Maureen. Not a word wasted. Brilliant!!! Thanks.
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Jeff Connelly
Date: 10/30/2019 12:42:00 PM
Maureen, I read up on it and didn't know about apple seeds. WOW!!! An apple a day will certainly keep the doctor away until I need the coroner lol. I learn more then one thing everyday. Thanks Maureen.
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:20:00 AM
Thank you my friend. Hugs and mo hugs
Date: 10/26/2019 3:48:00 PM
you've got me thinking. of Eden... and how that turned out... and about some of the dangerous territories our new technologies and scientists are wantonly skipping across. Boldly going where no one has gone before is not always wise... another short and very provacative write!
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:19:00 AM
There is that, that apple never far from my mind ;), all of the above and more. Thank you my friend! xomo
Date: 10/26/2019 3:29:00 PM
Maybe knowledge can help us avoid the worms? ;)
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:17:00 AM
Touché! ;D, That is the hope ~xomo! Hugs and giggles
Date: 10/26/2019 2:33:00 PM
Good one, Maureen.
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:04:00 AM
Thank you Line, :))) xomo!
Date: 10/26/2019 2:27:00 PM
Hence the old lace? Aloha! Rico
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/27/2019 8:01:00 AM
I thought you were playing with words, now there's a movie I have to see ;),
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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart
Date: 10/26/2019 2:29:00 PM
Brilliant. ~x
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