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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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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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Another Jack
Schools are back in the swing and I’m wondering if nursery rhymes are still sung or said at home or school, pre-school or kindergarten. Here’s a medley of lines from some of the more famous, or not, from childhood … … Continue reading
Poets Should Write About the Nice Things
I’ve heard poets talk of the subjects they write about and one said something I have used as the title of this week’s poem. It struck me as an odd thing to say. Surely poets should write about anything and … Continue reading
Posted in people, poem, poetry, street people
Tagged boy, dreams, girl, habit, poem, poetry, steal, street people
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Zoned Out
There are moments in life that lift me up beyond where I am to some other where, a place of extreme delight and joy. I know this happens to other people, at some point in time and it catches us … Continue reading
The Pause
The comma claims three columns of explanation in Fowler’s Modern English Usage. Apparently the comma comes to us from the Greek, meaning ‘piece cut off’ and was first used in English in the sixteenth century. There’s lots more information but … Continue reading
Posted in comma, poem, punctuation, words, writing
Tagged grammar, imagination, poem, poetry, punctuation, writing
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An Ordinary Man
Remembrance Day is coming up, and I wonder about my father, who died in Normandy, June 1944: what kind of man he would have been if he had survived the war? Was he changed by his experiences of the desert, … Continue reading
Posted in peace, people, poem, Remembrance Day, war
Tagged birds, children, everyday, people, poem, poetry, relationships, Remembrance Day, war
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Ain’t Nuttin’ To It
Given a sunny day, a bit of catchy music, and there’s a dancing man on a deserted patio, with friends to join the fun … AIN’T NUTTIN’ TO IT bag-eared king with white plastic throne bare-kneed shirt flapping plucks guitar-strings … Continue reading
Posted in book, dancing, homelessness, music, poem, poetry
Tagged book, dancing, homelessness, launch, music, poem, poetry, sun
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