January 31, 2012

Aacchoo!

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Aacchoo!

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(Courtesy photo)
Aacchoo!

Excuse me. I usually sneeze in three’s.
No, it’s not an allergy, except for the
Joke I’m allergic to hard work.
My throat started getting sore last
Wednesday, and this past weekend
The crazy winter cold caught up
With me, so for Monday morning
I’m as good as good can be.
When you asked how I was,
I wasn’t lying when I replied ,“Fine.”
At least I don’t like I was dying,
And I can easily breathe now.
I got up, got all clean and shaved,
Hair washed and teeth brushed.
My suit matches and is to code.
Some, my wife, think I should stay home,
But if I don’t work, I don’t get paid,
And there’s always something else
That needed to be finished yesterday.
Armed with more medicine and tissues.
I will make it through the day.

Who is Elias Tobias? Go to his biography that is also in Spanish.

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January 20, 2012

Poetry DRILL

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Poetry DRILL

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Poetry DRILL
Most occupations and vocations have drills or exercises to help those new to job or to renew lost interest, and so there is, appropriately in an anagram, a poetry DRILL.

D- Dare to dream and look at everything from a different point of view or several points at the same time without losing a central focus.  Basically, just don’t take time to smell the roses- be the rose. Write how you bloom, the irony of the thorns to reach beauty.  I once wrote a poem about a fire plug on a street near a school.  What has it seen and the changes in the children over the year, and how did it feel when it saw dog come near?  How many times was it used by firemen, or how many times has it been painted?  Here’s where the imagination plays, and creativity has the space to explore the not so obvious.

R- Realize that your audience is not roses or fire plugs: its people who want to expand their thoughts or horizons, and poets or other kinds of writers can help them.  Also writer need an audience for their work, so it’s a good relationship that exists under the right conditions.  Know your audience and written work has to be real enough for the audience to accept the surrealism of it all- Did Alice really go through that looking glass and meet a bunch of strange characters at a tea party? Did George Lucas take us a time far into the future with even more strange aliens?

I – Investigate the possibilities of your subject of the poem and use the creative processes to accomplish this.  One draft is not a masterpiece. Inspire other with work you do, and you can be inspired to be more of a writer or poet at the same time. Illuminate light on subjects that are considered to be plain or ordinary since they are really the things and experiences we deal with every day.  The fantasy is winning the lottery and never having to work again, but the reality is what we have to do to earn the money to buy that lottery ticket.

L - Love what you do. This thought inspired Steve Jobs to change the world with his electronic machines. As writer’s, be willing to take a risk and learn about new things and places since writers write about what they know.  Experience is always the best teacher, but we can learn from other people’s experiences and make them our own as a base for developing a style of writing that you call your own the more you write.  There is a say that inspiration is 90 percent perspiration, or effort.

L - Use language to your advantage.  As an English teacher for multi-grades including college, words are powerful, and there are many historical examples where people have risen to fame or lost their power use to the information in words.  Also use language beyond the basics of sentence structure, capitalization, spelling and punctuation.  Like a musician who struggles to learn the notes for an instrument, there comes a time when the basics are mastered and like breathing the instrument becomes a part of the person playing it, taking the creativity to new levels of professionalism.  Know the basics intuitively before you start breaking the rules.  Writers can break the rules, but there has to be a reason for it other than ignorance.  Writers make up new words or apply new meanings to old words, and that is what keeping language as a living thing.  Who would have known what Internet meant in the 1930’s?  Also here’s a note about the use of profanity in writing. I believe there are enough words in the English language to where use of profanity is the exception, not the rule.  Its use depends on the audience being served, and the intended effect .  e.e.cummings knew the basics of writing, but he broke the rules for distinct reasons.  I’m sure if he had to write a regular essay, he would use more periods.

This is the writer’s DRILL.

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January 15, 2012

View from My Backyard

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View from My Back Yard

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(Photos by Mike Hall)

With the thermometer at 23 degrees F., snow fell for a second day in Indianapolis on January14.  My backyard, which is a vegetated drainage area for the apartment complex, becomes a trip to the woods as the ground is covered by the snow.  The melted water keeps the little creek trickling through the area.

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January 9, 2012

It’s time to cash in all of my chips

Filed under: New Poems, Freeze Frame photography gallery, A Cupful of Words — admin @ 10:44 pm

It’s time to cash in all of my chips 

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(Illustration by Mike Hall)
It’s time to cash in all of my chips 

It’s time to cash in all of my chips,
And bet the rest of my life on your bliss.
I always want to be able to touch your
Lips and treasure every kiss.
I want to see your jeans hug your hips,
And watch you walk with a cute twist.
I know I’m taking a big risk, but you’re
The kind of woman on my list
Of someone I’d want to spend
The rest of my life with.

It’s time to cash in all of my chips,
Even though I could play longer
And I could strike it rich, but
There’s a good chance I could
Make a wrong move and lose it all,
And I would be all alone when
I’d take the fall.
Then it would have been just a game,
And my life would stay the same.
It’s time to cash in all of my chips,
And there’s a reason for the change.
It was a special day when I first
Saw you come my way, and if
You hadn’t been there,
I’d continue to play and have nothing
Now to say.

Who is Elias Tobias? Go to his biography that is also in Spanish.

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