Chapter 9 of The Haunted Tide is coming along nicely. Since yesterday I have written over a thousand words. I have also produced the following ‘found’ poem about a great storm on the North Norfolk Coast. A Village Vanishes Agitated by the violence of the wind, The sea burst, Occupying farms and fields At first, Then towns […]
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A poem to sum up my feelings in this post.
What is found poetry?
There is a variety of techniques you can use to create found poetry: You can take an existing fiction or non-fiction text and erase bits of it, leaving selected words and phrases that form a new text – a poem; You might select words and phrases from a text and rearrange them any way you […]
Hurricane
I have just read an interesting post by mashed radish about the etymology of the word hurricane and it reminded of the Grace Nichols poem Hurricane Hits England, a poem I love to read and enjoyed teaching to high school students, The link below is one I found on YouTube, in which Grace Nichols reads the poem […]
Of daughters and fairies
After a much needed weekend with my lovely daughter, I have returned from London to a dull, damp Norfolk. I am blogging again and wrote the following poem this morning. Daughter Where is the elfin child, The fairy foundling Of the violet eyes And finely-spun golden curls? She arrived on a November night, Illuminated by […]
The fifth and last day of an interest in etymology
Euphemism An indirect or mild noun To use instead of one That is too blunt Embarrassing Or even unpleasant Avoids offense And softens a blow A florid circumlocution That beats around the bush From the Greek expression Euphemismos Uses favourable Not inauspicious words Or dysphemia That call a spade a spade Speaking with a mealy mouth […]
Another poem inspired by an image
My husband took this photograph on one of his trips to Wroclaw in Poland, to see the amazing band Tides from Nebula. Unfortunately, this was before I semi-retired and I was unable to go with him, so he took plenty of photographs to show me how amazing this city is. Rising from the Pavements of […]
The third day of an interest in etymology
Etymology #3 Twinkle is a shiny word A sparkling, glittering, winking verb A two-syllabic, iambic light Constantly changing from faint to bright Having a friendly or happy face Moving lightly from place to place Glinting and flickering in a dance Stars like diamonds in the distance Its origins are in the Germanic tongue Developed in […]
The second day of an interest in etymology
Etymology #2 Harmony: a noun, a melodic word, The pleasant-sounding sequence Of music in a chord. Three syllables denote euphony, Composition, musical structure, Creation of a symphony. A pleasing congruence of parts, Harmony is concord, goodwill, The meeting of minds and hearts. Without it there would be no unity; The world would be in discord, […]
An interest in etymology
I wrote this after reading mashed radish, the etymology blog. I studied linguistics many years ago and am interested in etymology. While teaching English at a high school in Norfolk, one homework project I devised that really got Year 7 and 8 students going was the presentation of a word. They had to choose a […]
For those of you who love the poetry of Leonard Cohen
I saw this on Facebook and thought it was too beautiful to not share. The second short film is the best one of ‘A Kite is a Victim’ . http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/the-poetry-of-leonard-cohen-illustrated-by-two-short-films.html
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