Yesterday I entitled my post “For Whom the Binoculars Search.” It was a post about the passing of Canadian artist Alex Colville. The title was a nod to the famous quotation from John Donne, which is underlined below No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a
Obviously I live a sheltered life. I have never heard of the performance, “God is a Scottish Drag Queen” before. One of my knitting friends, Fiona Ellis, posted it to my FB wall. Notice that I said “knitting” friend. I didn’t say “theatre” friend, or “drag queen” friend or even “Scottish” friend. Apparently this review
What to do when there is nothing else to do. Well, I often resort to Found Poetry. It’s an idle way of taking a preset arrangement of words and either re-arranging them or keeping them in the same order but putting in the “significant pauses” that make the words “poetry” or thoughtful comments on life.
Blog block again today – writer’s block for bloggers. Nothing jumped out at me by way of an idea for a blog this morning and I am sure that this happens to a lot of writers. I warmed a little to the idea of writing about body parts that were named after people, such as,
I sometimes have trouble finding a particular poem on the internet, because I have remembered a line or two, but have forgotten the title and/or the author. Yesterday, I was looking for a poem to go with a picture that I had taken that reminded me of summer somewhere in small town North America. I
I obviously woke up “brain dead” this morning because I didn’t have an idea for a post. So I went back to my “word of the day” site to try and trigger a synapse or two in that lobe of the brain assigned to writing and other verbal creativity. The word for April 28 on
This is a fascinating topic. I love structure, especially in areas where there is often very little structure, such as the arts. Although I like free verse, I also really admire poets who can work within the “rules” of structured poetry, such as, the Haiku, or certain rhyme schemes. Caro Ness, in one of my
April is National Poetry Month. Fortunately Stephen King from the V7N blogging group posted the other day about National Tartan Day and that reminded me that there were a few sites that list these dedicated days, weeks and/or months. This is a big help to bloggers, who run out of steam..er..words from time to time.
There are a lot of cliches that people use for the concept of “covering their downside.” It tends to be a financial/stock market term, which means that you spread your investments over a broad spectrum, so that if one “goes down” there are others that will hopefully come to fruition and you won’t be totally
