Rhyming title

Ms Lagrange is strange

Today I talked to a kid about a book she was reading. She didnt know what its about. 

Salt and pepper shaker

Chyron

Stephen Lloyd Webber

Eddie says breathe backwards to taste the wine.

Eddie Osterland

Greeting card

A Hallmark greeting card with 3D daffodil and stem wound in green.

A letter says
what you would
otherwise
say in person
when you meet

Writers in debt

 Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok

In Pilgrimage, the poet says
" I put birds
in mos poems and rivers, put rivers
in most birds and thinking, put the dead
in many sentences..."

Yesterday lunch time, I saw a not so humpty dumpty egg fallen on the tar, broken a bit. There was something inside. I went in to get a paper to lift it onto. My husband looked at it and concluded that the little  bird inside was dead.

In 'Soundscape', the poet asks
".. wondered why we call it
playing catch and not playing throw"
I think I know the answer for this one. I was teaching my kid to play ball. In the rhythm of throwing and catching it was hard to tell whose action I was shouting out, mine or hers. my throw is for her to catch. It is easier for kids to catch, than throw at first. From the kids point of view, its always a catch game. And if they miss, like one kid put it, you missed (you missed throwing the ball in such a way that it could be caught).

In 'One of those things we say', the poet says
"breathe and throw a party for the house when the mortgage
has lost its teeth."
What a time to look forward to.

In The Missing,
" a different girl with her own
missing eyes, her own beetle
in her mouth. ..."
With 'her own', spilling from the previous line, the poem gets surreal, presents a world to each person, living and dead, a world just and unjust.

In 'Elegy to unnamed sources'
"I've tasted your ashes twice, once today,
once tomorrow"
Visceral.

The abundance of baskin robbins scoop incites austerity.
In 'Very small bible' Jesus with amnesia walks around the dead.
The order of things is a nice swap poem.

Hyacinth cookie in Speaking American

Exercise: In Sunny, infinte chance of rain, the poet uses the happy dancing couple on wedding cake as the stage for the  real life events. Poignant. Look if any of your situations can use metaphors to better reflect the happening.

Cards fixed to spokes in Moving day. Enhanced bicycle. The only decorations that I can think of bicycles in India - beads on spokes, pom poms. Watch the sound made by clipped cards on bicycles on youtube.

I thought Making it in poetry would be like How to succeed in Po Biz.

Writing

Reading to write

Seize the moment

Bright Glass

I saw the sun
in the building
at
the neighbor's
stopped for tea break
at sunset
the shine through their
kitchen
window


While getting into the car, I noticed the neighbors window was aflame.
At Chandler Library, there was a board for National poetry month. Just the opportunity to  put the moment into words. Only while writing it down did I anthopomorphize the sun.
And windows are so different. Here its glassed. In India its wooden.

Crossing designs

The math of a sunshade folding down.





What happens when you cross a sunshade with a goal net. You get goalee.
You might have seen how the sun shades fold into a small circle. Thats nothing compared to how the goalee folds up. Its portable, light, easy to setup. It comes with its bag that can be worn on the side. Easy to transport. And when its not in use, it stashed away carefully.

Turnabout night

A colleague told me of the Night at the zoo that his child's school had. I was thinking of the animals in their habitat and if it had to be a turnabout night to make it fun for the animals too.

Animal pyramid

Lizards could reduce Lyme disease. Recently a friend told me about an observation she made after 5 years of how her cat kept the scorpions at bay. When I brought this up with another scorpion infested house owner, he said that lizards helped in reducing scorpions.
Cats and Scorpions
Lizards and scorpions

Inspiring workspaces of the famously creative

Thats Font Creatica

When the book  Sark's new Creative Companion said that you could read lying down as it was written that way. Close to sleeping, I was doing just that.

Retaining the creativity you are born with

As part of Tina Seelig's Crash course to creativity, I read few articles on ecorner. In the lecture, Tom kelley says that the youngest grade students called themselves artists. 

Torrance test of creative thinking

According to the book, ask your kid of what all things remind them of red, for unusual answers to pick up on their creativity.

The author suggests making a mural on a blackboard around a subject which can then be used as background for roleplay.

Some of the things the author suggests:
Making baby obstacle course for a story
Making finger puppets - crafts
Baby bag with surprises

opposites cards
body chart
Touch and guess game - Once at SanTan Mountain center, a mom encouraged her kid to feel something in a cardboard box. It was fur.
Weather wheel

A crash course to Creativity

Stanford has an online course A crash course on creativity taught by the author Tina Seelig, author of the book A crash course on creativity. Interesting ecorner.

In the book, the author asks us to come up with as many uses for a paper clip or piece of paper.

Bespokeinnovations
Reading like a historian
Powers of 10

While searching for , I found

and started reading of Chindogu on the net. Which is what the next para of the book is about.

Hobby horse
TRIZ

Make space

Reading early

Read this 'Goodnight, Goodnight Construction site' book at a friend's house. The book has lots of details but in endearing sketches. The author Sherri Duskey Rinker on  How to raise a reader.

If battered books were a sign of reading, my daughter is a scholar.

Enter into the world of Dragons

Why I left Goldman Sachs by Greg Smith

The book has an imersion journalism feel to it like letting you into a reputed culinary school for the first time and show you what goes on inside.

Capital gains tax exemption related to government service

And now deep thoughts about deep thoughts
Kinds of poetry criticism
why write sestinas
Stupid writer tricks

With a stiletto

Caravaggio tore up

His painting of Lazarus

Raised

Modeled by a corpse

Life size, receding

We are all

Raised

after birth

Lazarus in the book Kore caught my eye. Lazarus also happens to be the theme for TH 23

In the movie 'New York' a grille on the pathway reminded me of how a woman's stiletto was stuck in it on the ground. After scale, I have been thinking about what is life size? Other than the magnitude, whatever brings a thing to life, its ness.

This pieced together shard makes you wonder if 'wholeness' of a thing is imaginary like the line. 

What essays do?

Make the reader realise
1. That we gather corners of pages Next page clicker.
2. merry-go-round is cousin of horse ride.
3. Buttery helium balloons cling to roof for about a week.
4. sobs feed uncontrollably on sobs
5. Vending aura is to be blamed for the unintended shopping.
6. Why mom 365 makes cold calls
7. Desiderata Vs Deteriorata

In the 'Portrait Inside my Head' I skipped the landscapes section which seems to have a backstory mentioned in

Reflection and retrospection a pedagogic mystery story

On the necessity of turning oneself into a character

On going a journey
Fight
First Acquaintance Poets
On the pleasure of Hating
The Indian Jugglers
Death of a moth
Essay resources
Prompts
syllabi

On contrariety -
Against nature
Against Interpertration
Against poets
Against love
Against Joie de Vivre

Experiment

The consistent style of the poems in the first section mixing prose and poetry balances the reality and fantasy tones of the medium.

Meme

A helpful review

Propertius

men and gun

All you words

In From A to ZYXt essay, Nicholson Baker writes of an interesting project of reading the words of a dictionary aloud.
Kabul express happens to be the movie where I related journalist to journal. And thence onto difference between journalist and reporter.

I watched Kabul Express last night. First thought, with such beautiful mountains around, why fight instead of hike. When the father meets his daughter after a long time, no words, he places some money on a rock an a paper weight on it. I was thinking how would this seen be rendered in words. would a book do as well as a film in the portrayal of this scene. Extending this in I said to myself essay, Nicholson Baker, shows the power of Indirect thought offered in books.

In Narrow ruled, the author talks of how writing down the lines that grab you in you reading offer a climate to interact with the writing. And there's a caveat to not overdo it. 

When the author says the earplugs keep the world at bay, its reminiscent of the apps that get highlighted on the computer or smart phone screen. 

One Summer. There are many paragraphs in this essay. 

Scale

Miniatures
A tiny lamp with a pull down
in the palm of a lady with her
other fist controlling

The cynosure object

magnifies the fist in foreground
to the back of a person
with the hair in foreground
the erstwhile finger
a hand now

A lamp is always a lamp

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Darlene olivia mcelroy
Sandra duran wilson

Still in 20th century

Period poetry
Where poetry meets reality for the current generation readers, having read of or being able to relate to the events in this century.

Moon makes anybody poetic. yesterday, a friend told me about the moon -lunatic link.
Another prose writer goes poetic with vultures. Natural history
'The old Moscow woman' by Ralph Gustafson
Tar by C.K.Williams - solid form
Cumberland station - rich form
The Water Diviner -(dwr is Welsh for water)
Space opera in Consider Phlebas in Waste land limericks
Cabinet paintings -Hillard in In Modern dress - lengthy inquisition of a worm
History. the book adds a footnote that graham's rhetorical question 'who/will tell the children/fairytales?' indirectly restates Theodor W. Adorno's dictum that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
While reading 'the Quick an the dead' by David Constantine, pitting the Pompeii against Hiroshima-Nagasaki, it is a wonder that poetry existed in those times or in the Anne Frank time or the one about Rutherford.
test-tube baby pioneer a Meliorist? from Cousin coat.
Down by the station, early in the morning - form , also a song
Zoom can be a primer to look from the outside.
Parenthood and other funny poems
When I grow up - also a song
Timur the lame - poets poem
A fable





Exercise:
The curiosity shop gets as surreal as it can. Take the tangent to any oridnary occurence in your poem.
Cinnamon peeler. stories of Profession's ramifications.

To read

orion article

How to critique a memoir

Light poem with synonyms from rogets thesaurus

Personality poets: Yeti poet and  poet crab

Dear Superman

Ten oxhearding pictures
sonku
God poem

definition

Grandma we are poets

She died in peas

She found the doors of heaven by the smell of honey. After having her customary tea, her day and life felt unmoored to time. The only time when she ever considered giving up tea was post visit to the dentist, imagining tea-stained cup.
She is survived by her pantry and pots. Cake decorating kit that she never used. Assortment of passed down gadgets.
She never liked frying. Her husband found it ironical that she should love murukulu. It wasnt about fried vs not fried. It was savoury vs sweet. She watched what she ate when it came to sweets.

What would your food obit say?

Watching the world

Jim Rogers - Author of Street Smarts and Adventure Capitalist

Short selling
If only 25 investments...
He bought Lockheed when it was a $
concentrate on what you know
Cincinnatus
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