Haiku (and cartoon) to you Thursday: “New Year”
Another year lapses /
Burdened with what might have beens: /
Tomorrow whispers.
Filed under 2019, Haiku to You Thursday, poetry by author
Writing tip Wednesday: “Flush with success”
A simple writing tip to start the New Year. /
I will say it once, so gather round here. /
Whatever you may do about beginnings and ends /
When sitting on the throne do not hours spend. /
Your poem you will not complete before other deeds are done. /
And your legs and your feet will be the slumbering ones. /
Your audience, too, may have abandoned you. /
They may find what you have done not the best you can doo-doo.
Simple tip to start out the New Year. Do not write a completed poem while sitting on the commode. Before you’re finished, your legs — if not your audience — will be numb and asleep.
Filed under 2019, Writing Tip Wednesday, writing tips
cARtOONSdAY: “eXIT rIGHT”
How you end a scene or chapter is as important as how you begin one.
Staged exit
Staged exit right.
Left in a flight.
Rung drama from the night
Exited before day bright.
We cried, “No more!”
Our eyes cast to the floor
We showed him the door.
He cried, “You bore.”
He left with a sting
Like a long hard fling
When the door it swings
Into the ding-a-king.
Filed under 2019, CarToonsday, poetry by author
Monday morning writing joke: “A writer from Saskatchewan”
There once was a writer from Saskatchewan /
Who wasn’t sure he could still catch one /
He gave a good chase /
In a world of bodice and lace /
But his writing, like his love life, had come undone.
Filed under 2018, Monday morning writing joke, poetry by author
New words to live by: “Clusterphobia”
Time, once again (though it has been a while), for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, tantrumony, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is created by taking two nouns and creating a new word. In this instance, the new word does not borrow from the names of the old words, but from their definitions.Without further waiting here is the new word: clusterphobia.
OLD WORDS
Claustrophobia, n. An abnormal fear of being in
enclosed or narrow places.
Cluster, n. A group of persons or thing close together.
NEW WORD
Clusterphobia, n. Too many people or things gathered in too close or small a space eliciting a fear bordering on abnormal.
Adjective version: clusterphobic.
Used in a sentence: Donnie was afflicted by clusterphobia. He had too many people too close by who knew too much more than he did and he couldn’t stand it, so he fired them.
Most recent new word: tantrumony.
Filed under 2018, new word, New words to live by
Sunday writing prompt: “Happy Holidays”
Filed under 2018, Sunday silliness
Haiku to you Thursday (and photo): “Dreams”
Old, abandoned trunk /
Life is not always as it seems /
Damaged, distant dreams.
Monday morning writing joke: “Wolf packed”
There once was a woman from Tangier /
Who had a wolf on her head, it appears. /
It would not go away /
Not even on Thanksgiving Day. /
He said, “By Christmas, I’ll have eaten you, my dear.”
Filed under 2018, Monday morning writing joke, poetry by author
