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Get Poetical: The Brute
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Your daily dose of assonance. Monday, December 6, 2010. Last year for Christmas I was flat broke and couldn't even begin to imagine how to afford presents for everyone. I racked my brain and finally decided that since I had been working on a children's story, it might be fun to turn it into a book. I asked a friend of mine to do the illustrations so that I could put it together and give it as a gift to my family. Susan ran crying when he said her thighs thundered. He called Walter four-eyes and laugh...
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Get Poetical: In the category of Seussical impressions regarding grammatics . . .
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Your daily dose of assonance. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. In the category of Seussical impressions regarding grammatics . . . This email from September 2005 wins first prize. I was once again doing a random search through my inbox archives (shut up, it's my thing. And was delighted to see how the following poem evolved. This was the observation she made to me that day:. To which I replied:. That last bit put me in Dr. Seuss mode, which then resulted in the following limerick I sent back to her:. When I...
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Get Poetical: October 2010
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Your daily dose of assonance. Sunday, October 31, 2010. To my friends, thank you. I'm going to bed. There's a line from the animated movie Charlotte's Web. If I were to live my life. In scaffolds of skin and whiskers. At the bottom of a pond. And you were to come by. When the moon was shining. Down into my dark home. And stand there at the edge. And think, "It's beautiful. Here by this pond. I wish. Somebody loved me,". Love you and be your catfish. Friend and drive such lonely. Thoughts from your mind.
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Get Poetical: I'm like that guy who wrote a love letter about his typewriter except about food.
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Your daily dose of assonance. Thursday, March 17, 2011. I'm like that guy who wrote a love letter about his typewriter except about food. I don't know. Anyway, it didn't work, and while they were looking at me expectantly I took the first step and measured out the flour. It's funny how something so simple can calm you down. Measuring flour I know. Cracking eggs? The thing about pasta as I've said before. One of my "students" made an excellent point about the process of learning from a *cough cough* exper...
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Get Poetical: Who is on the phone?
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Your daily dose of assonance. Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Who is on the phone? My dear friend Angela is coming to see me this week all the way from Nashville! I am so excited and in honor of this, I would like to share a story regarding our similar cases of mistaken phone identities. And Angela said, no, this is not Cash. The rest of the conversation was pretty one-sided and went something like this:. Who is on the phone? WHO IS ON THE PHONE? Fast forward to last night when I was reading US Weekly. I sat up ...
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Get Poetical: February 2011
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Your daily dose of assonance. Monday, February 28, 2011. A bit of a downer, frankly. I wanted to share this poem by W. H. Auden. You might recognize him as the author of the poem. John Hannah recited in Four Weddings and a Funeral. This one caught my eye on one of the poetry sites I frequent- sometimes they post an excerpt of a classic to lure people in on the home page. But as I was reading through it, it really struck me today. You know the phrase "arresting image"? But all the clocks in the city.
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Get Poetical: Poetry meet art. Art, poetry.
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Your daily dose of assonance. Monday, March 21, 2011. Poetry meet art. Art, poetry. Is coming to visit me in a couple weeks! Anyway, I thought it would be fun to take photos of her artwork and post them here. At least I'll feel at home on my blog. This one accompanies a poem written about a trip to Venice I took with my family. It's called "A Native's Dream":. This one is "Through the Keyhole," written at a particularly angsty time in college:. And finally this one you might be familiar with already.
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Get Poetical: I'll give you a topic.
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Your daily dose of assonance. Thursday, April 14, 2011. I'll give you a topic. I just came across a site called the Random Poem Idea Generator. Here are some of the suggestions it gave me:. Boldly advance wrong opinions about eagles saying everything twice but phrased differently. Throw a friendly arm around gophers in a cocktail dress (Are the gophers wearing the cocktail dress or are you? Indicate your preference for Michigan entirely in overheard dialogue (This just makes me think of Sufjan Stevens.
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Get Poetical: January 2011
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Your daily dose of assonance. Monday, January 31, 2011. I once read a blog. Where the writer posted about her husband lying down to have a think. That image really struck me. Who takes time out of their day to do that? So I got comfortable, and I let my mind go and I thought and thought until an hour or so went by. I still wasn't sleepy, but somehow it was helping. It actually was. What are you thinking about? I am thinking of an early summer. I am thinking of wet hills in the rain. What are you thinking?
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