……Sometimes my posts only come together when the stars align. Today I was reading a post by a popular blogger, who is also a published author, Stephen King. No not that Stephen King. The Stephen King that I am referring to is a.k.a. TOSK – The Other Stephen King. Anyway, Stephen writes Fantasy and wrote […]
Yesterday in the Toronto Star (newspaper) there was a small article about an upcoming poetry competition. Now I brake for poetry!! So I stopped and read the rules: 1. The poems must be taken from the words and topics published in the paper. 2. The competition starts in November. 3. Poems should be no longer
The celtic feast of Samhain is Oct 31. It’s a time when the veil between our world and the nether world, the world of spirits, is very thin. I have written about Samhain before. It is a time of mourning, a time of connecting with those who have gone before us and a time of
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Tomorrow is National Skyscraper day. I just thought that I would give you a heads up (no pun intended) about this. I am not a great fan of Skyscrapers; however, in Toronto, and other large cities they are unavoidable. In fact, my area of mid-town Toronto has been declared a skyscraper rejuvenation zone. That is,
I decided to phrase the title of the post this way, rather than referring to the actual name of the day that was August 18 – Bad Poetry Day. You see someone actually created the day and copyrighted their idea, so that, if you want to make reference to this day, you have to contact
Some books I just couldn’t throw out in my various purges. One of these was my “Pocket Book of Ogden Nash.” I know that most, if not all, of his poems are on-line, but so many of these sites are just lists of titles. You then have to click on the title to open a
Yesterday I posted several of Dorothy Parker’s more memorable quotes. I would often read her work along with the books and poems of Richard Armour. Although Armour wrote many humorous books, including “Twisted Tales of Shakespeare,” I will always remember him for two very wonderful poems – Shake and shake the catsup bottle first none’ll come and
I don’t think I really appreciated Dorothy Parker when I was studying or teaching poetry. She had a few poems that I liked. However, I either found them not pithy enough or not funny enough. Mashable just posted a blog on her, given that it’s the poet’s 120th birthday. OK she died in 1967, but
There is something fascinating about receiving letters. I know that most communication these days is e-mail, texting or twitter, how sad! No more, will we have bundles of love letters, tied up with faded ribbon, to be read years later. These electronic communications will also never be scented, never have touched the hand of the corresponder and
