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When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.~~Joy Harjo
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.~~Carl Sandburg
Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.~~Dylan Thomas
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.~~Paul Engle
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.~~Leonard Cohen
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.~~Robert Frost |
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You know that 'junk drawer' in the kitchen: where the odd screwdriver, the spare batteries, that missing puzzle piece you found, a handful of nails of assorted sizes, three thumbtacks, a tube of dried-up glue, and who knows all what else lives and breeds? I have a drawer in my desk that is my 'junque' drawer. Odd scribbled thoughts, potential lines, lists of unusual words, possible story ideas, unused (as yet) ideas for newsletters, or a new vlog series I'm involved with: these all live and breathe in that drawer. It isn't organized. It isn't neat. Thoughts are tossed in to emerge at some future date as one thing or another. There are notes scribbled with pens, colored pencils, crayons, and markers - ie; whatever was handy. There is (pun intended) no rhyme or reason to it at all.
Occasionally, my muse likes to dive in and go for a verbal swim.
This newsletter is a smattering of some ideas that have come from that drawer. No deep thinking, just some springboards. Jump in - the water's fine!
1. Layers. We layer clothing or blankets on the bed on a chilly evening. While there is nothing wrong with writing poetry that is all there, right on the surface, there is much to be said for poetry that requires multiple readings and serious thought to glean all there is to be taken from it. Playing with words that have multiple meanings is one way to do this, or using scenarios that can be drastically different depending upon the perspective of the reader. It can add depth to the poem and is perhaps something new to play around with.
2. Words. Just a list of some of my favorite words that I enjoy the sounds of or the esoteric meanings of. Grab the dictionary -- you do have one handy, right?
adynaton
cinnamon
estival
myriad
plethora
quiescent
wamble
3. In one of Bertrice Small's books, there are a species of characters called 'the munin.' They are the keepers of memory. Recently, in another book, I came across a character named after one of the two ravens that would sit on Odin's shoulders. Muninn were the keepers of memory. Yes, I looked it up; I figured the word came from somewhere and, indeed, it did. Such fun to work things like this into our word works!
4. Homonyms, homophones, and homographs. Oh, and heteronyms.
When words are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings, then they are called homonyms. Some examples.
Bat - to hit, the object in baseball, a small rodent with wings, to theoretically impact.
Fair - as in nice or the place with the Ferris wheel.
Cleave - to bring together (cleave only unto the other from the marriage ceremony) or to cut apart (using, perchance a cleaver.)
Mine - as in not yours or where gold and diamonds come from.
Homographs are spelled the same but pronounced differently. Heteronyms are specific types of homographs in which the different pronunciations are associated with different meanings.Some examples.
Minute - an amount of time or something very, very small.
Wind - The breeze wafting or as in when you wind kite string on a stick.
Desert - a dry, arid sandy area or to leave someone behind.
Refuse - to abstain from doing something or what goes in the trashcan.
Alternate - a secondary choice or picking every other one of something.
Homophones are words that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, derivation, or spelling.
Dessert - meal finisher or desert to leave (see above)
Earn as in money, urn as in a holder for ashes.
Maize - corn and maze - which may well be constructed of maize or hedges.
Miner - he who works in a mine, minor- one who is not yet of age.
Grate (as in cheese - unless you are grateful (wanting to say thanks.) and great as in fabulous.
Faze (as in affected) and phase as in the next order of operations.
Affect (the action) and effect (the result.)
Through (passing) and threw (the ball)
Bow (as from the waist, bough as in tree. bow (as in arrow) and beau (as in a suitor)
The STICKY ones so many mix up - there, their, they're. (not here, belonging to or contraction. They're grabbing their coats over there.
The other sticky ones. Your, you're and its and it's.
5. A spoken word poet, Brandon Leak just won America's Got Talent. How awesome for a poet to win!!!
6. Some great group names of animals.
Conspiracy of ravens
Murder of crows
Parliament of owls
Exultation of larks
Shrewdness of apes
Memory of elephants
Tower of giraffes
Convocation of eagles - seems like this should be of cardinals!
Charm of hummingbirds
Just some thoughts that may prove informative or useful.
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