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Collectively Speaking
I’ve always loved collective nouns, they can be such fun, definitely worth making a poem out of them … COLLECTIVELY SPEAKING a gambol of dancers sends a poke of fencers past a staff of employees who gossip about an indecision … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, language, poem
Tagged collectives, nouns, people, poem, poetry, words
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Tired Language
Platitudes, clichés, banalities … they show up newspapers, magazine articles, and on the daily news, until I turn my hearing down and reach for strong words. Or just turn off altogether … TIRED LANGUAGE I deep-fry the alphabet in pure … Continue reading
Lexical
Dictionaries are always useful, good browsing material too. And, just sometimes, worth playing word-games with … LEXICAL (acrostic) discovering ideologies closeted tidily or inserted oddly with notions arbitrarily regularly yoked A A ‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws … Continue reading
Posted in language, letter, poem
Tagged acrostic, lexicology, lexicon, poem, poetry, word-games
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A Pedestrian Day
Some days are so ordinary they defy expression except as ‘humdrum’. And then some small thing, a bird, a sun beam, a phone call, turns the day on its head … A PEDESTRIAN DAY the world has turned a prosaic … Continue reading
Posted in birds, language, poem, routines
Tagged everyday, habits, inspiration, poetry, tedium
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Logomachy
An Adnomination is a poetic device in which you take a root meaning that is shared by many words and use it in many different, sometimes opposing, ways. Here’s one I worked out with ‘log’ … LOGOMACHY having logged on … Continue reading
without knowing
There are times when I sit and stare out of the window trying to conjure up a poem. I don’t call this ‘writer’s block’, just one of those days when inspiration hides. And then I just start writing … WITHOUT … Continue reading
Posted in creation, language, poem, poetry
Tagged imagination, inspiration, language, letters, poem, words
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The Grammar of Rain
It’s October and we’re into the rainy season. I longed for it all summer (we had no rain for four months) and by December I’ll be wondering when it will stop, with the rest of the winter to get through … Continue reading
Country Ball Game
Home-grown baseball … summer evenings … popcorn … it all sounds so relaxed, peaceful, and fun. I love the language of baseball, other sports too come to that, but I have to go online to make sure I’ve got it … Continue reading
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