© 2021 selmamartin.com (exclusively) Show me proper courtesy if you wish to reblog this, and ask for written permission to repost. Thank you. Do you have a Halloween poem that you wrote and failed to publish? Then I guess that poem is bullying your shadow. Let's do something about that.
© 2021 selmamartin.com (exclusively) Show me proper courtesy if you wish to reblog this, and ask for written permission to repost. Thank you. This is what I learned today: "a Conceit is a comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness” and that “a comparison becomes a conceit when we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness." Wow. I wonder how I did...
I love the theme prompt of kindness this week. And I cannot help noticing that like the 'ever-ready' and 'intel-lect inside' (puns), we come with 'kindness inside!' Please enjoy the write up and short syllabic poetry I wrote for you today.
I love to get the exposure, but I know from a stint as an editor of an online pub once that there's a right way and a wrong way of reblogging someone else's words. Please, let's not be tolerant of wrong practices. Words matter.
Fear and Celebrating, both healthy traditions observed at Samhain. Happy Halloween, my friends.
Words are all we have. Speak uplifting words.
Started out trying to write a Shakespearean sonnet, but ended up with a string of Clerihews that sounded like Sonnets. Oh my! Read to see what happened next. Hint: good life lesson.
...because once you stop rushing you'll have time to figure out a lot more. So onward ever, but hurry never.
Life: There are techniques for everything. It pays to learn the ones that matter.
An inspirational poem for you today: Ebb & Flow no matter how much we try to prolong the day...
Taking a fantastical wild ride with the wind like I ‘used to’ in yester-years. Come ride with me, why don’t you, as together we explore this new Zéjel form that’s a Spanish form with lovely history: Arabic influence related to the Qasida and adopted by the Spanish troubadours of 15th century. Enjoy.
“Could it be that this idea of letting go is a seed planted within us?”