hi pam, before i forget i love, love love the picture of flaubert, his expression is priceless... i like how you used the wordles..it is like a kite flying
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. Harold Bloom
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Pamela, This is so simple, yet says so much. I love it! and brrrr......
ReplyDeleteWow. I can feel the glacial winds. So icy!
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Hi Pamela, I really like the tone of the narrator. I think the final couplet worked obliquely. Also made me think of the Gulf oil spill.-Irene
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Thanks Julie!
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Thanks Irene great prompt!
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Pamela, you can crystallize so much in so few words. Glacial winds INDEED blow on birthdays!
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Sometimes are good for it Stan!
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Thanks Mary!
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That's as economical a use of the wordle as I've seen. I love the mix of emotions.
ReplyDeleteThanks Francis I have been trying to write these wordles brief!
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brief. yes.
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hi pam, before i forget i love, love love the picture of flaubert, his expression is priceless... i like how you used the wordles..it is like a kite flying
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Agreed -- an economical use of the words, and your placement of them casts a tincture of blue over the whole poem. Nicely done.
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Thanks Nicole
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