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Leg-of-mutton
I do enjoy writing ‘adnominations’, i.e. taking a morpheme (a root meaning that is shared by many words) and using it in multiple, often opposing, ways. Try it, it’s fun … LEG-OF-MUTTON if a roman legate wrote a legend as … Continue reading
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Tagged adnomination, fun, people, poem, writing
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The Literary Cat
Alice the cat has a mat on my desk. This so that she doesn’t sleep on my papers. She also likes to sit on the top deck of my stack of letter racks. As a kitten she used to sleep … Continue reading
The Writing of a Story of Words
This is a warm-up exercise I found in Wingbeats II, edited by Scott Wiggerman & David Meischen, a book full of exercises in poetry that are great fun to try. This one is called line-building and I recommend it for … 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
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Tagged grammar, imagination, poem, poetry, punctuation, writing
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Traffic Senryu
We’re so used to traffic, trucks, vans, buses, and cars, that it’s easy to forget how small moments can make poetry. Take a moment as you read these senryu to capture the scene … flies at the car window nosey … Continue reading
Drawn into Words
I’ve written poetry all my life, starting when I was about six. Poetry first, short or long stories, whatever it takes to string one word after another … DRAWN INTO WORDS the first seduction – a line of ecstatic red … Continue reading
Answering the Challenge
I don’t often write rhyming poetry, but when I do I have a lot of fun! Just don’t take this seriously! Words are tools, jester’s cap and bells, wisdom, and adventure … A A ANSWERING THE CHALLENGE … Continue reading
Outside Haunting
Hallow e’en and I look out my window from the comfort of my work place, feeling blessed by the view, and my surroundings. And then something happens … A A OUTSIDE HAUNTING … Continue reading
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Tagged books, cat, desk, ghosts, Hallow e'en, imagination, poetry, trees, weather, writing
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