{"id":5679,"date":"2012-06-03T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:32:42","slug":"found-poetry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5679","title":{"rendered":"Found Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s another dull day in Toronto – very cool and cloudy – and I am in a state of inertia.  With time on my hands – especially if I ignore the “to do” lists – I feel like writing; but need to come up with some ideas. I went through the days of the first week in June on Wikipedia – nothing very earth shattering, in history, there – except a reminder that June 6 commemorates D-Day.<\/p>\n

I’m not really avoiding the 60th jubilee of the Queen – I’m a monarchist after all;  I just can’t seem to get into the hype!! I did some reading in Squidoo and found out that cats have 32 muscles in each ear and that they can make 100 distinct sounds.  OK what’s next.<\/p>\n

Finally I did a Google search using two words that I can always live with – “poetry” and “knitting” and came across this blogpost –<\/p>\n

http:\/\/householdopera.typepad.com\/household_opera\/2003\/11\/found_poetry_fr.html<\/p>\n

The writer is a beginning lace knitter, as well as being a librarian and obviously a lover of “Found Poetry.” In her post she just lists the names of lace stitches from two of Barbara Walker’s books that sound poetic. Here is her list:<\/p>\n

Parenthetical Rib<\/span>
<\/span>All Fools’ Welt<\/span>
<\/span>Tilting Ladder<\/span>
<\/span>Crest of the Wave<\/span>
<\/span>Dry Bones Cable<\/span>
<\/span>Gordian Knot<\/span>
<\/span>Homes of Donegal<\/span>
<\/span>Dragon Skin<\/span>
<\/span>Pillar and Web<\/span>
<\/span>Ostrich Plumes<\/span>
<\/span>Flying Buttress<\/span>
<\/span>Inverted Gull<\/span>
<\/span>Crazy Maypole<\/span>
<\/span>Anemone<\/span>
<\/span>The Cloisters<\/span>
<\/span>Candle of Glory<\/span>
<\/span>Telescope Lattice<\/span>
<\/span>Wings of the Swan<\/span>
<\/span>Odin’s Eagles<\/span>
<\/span>Syncopated Brioche<\/span>
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\nFunny how in all the years that I have been using Barbara Walker (20) and all the years that I taught poetry (15), I never really connected the two.  Now I have designed lace scarves and shawls based on poems – but never thought in terms of the names of lace stitches as being particularly poetic – my loss.<\/span>
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<\/span>
\nI think that I have to go back and re-read those stitch dictionaries with different eyes.<\/span>
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<\/span>
\nAlso in my random searches yesterday and today. I came across a writer who creates poems about the pictures she has taken….so maybe I can use this list as my next photo scavenger hunt – I guess I’ll have to go to Donegal for “Homes of Donegal” or find a street in TO named Donegal and take some pictures.<\/span>
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<\/span>
\nGosh, I just wasted two days looking for another way to waste some time. Lets just call it therapy and move on.<\/span>
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<\/span>
\nHow’s this for The Cloisters?<\/span><\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n


<\/span>
\nNo poetry – but maybe a lace scarf.<\/span>
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\nHave a productive day!!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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