Saturday, April 27, 2019

Whittling Words


Writing poetry
is not just rhyming
not just couplets
not just alliteration.

Writing poetry
is choosing 
words wisely, whittling  away
at thoughts,
until a form appears,
an image takes shape---

Smoothing down the edges,
Sanding down the unnecessary,
Searching for the true.



Writing poetry
is not rhyming 
not couplets
Not alliter. . . hmm. . . .maybe 
alliteration is all right after all.

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Mizzou81 said...

a wordsmith weaving words of wisdom

April 28, 2019 at 1:43 PM

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Between Two Worlds

Most of my life, I've considered it fortunate that I was just ahead of the Baby-boom. Generally, the Baby-boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 after the fathers returned from World War II. It was a huge population explosion that has reverberated through American society.

This blog will be part history, part memories, part reflections of a retired teacher, but active "Senior". I have always felt like I straddled two generations forming a bridge. Sometimes I think like a baby-boomer, but sometimes I'm locked into my parents' Depression era thinking. I'm a dichotomy of two eras. But, I'm always ready to try something new---so here I am dipping my toes in the water of Blogworld.