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My latest missives & musings
Old Lingard’s tune
I like today’s test, it being to write a poem that involves alliteration, consonance, and assonance. Alliteration is the repetition of a particular consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words. Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds elsewhere in multiple words, and assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. Traci Brimhall’s poem “A Group…
Employment Opportunity
Our optional prompt for today is to write a poem based on the “Proust Questionnaire,” a set of questions drawn from Victorian-era parlour games, and adapted by modern interviewers. We could choose to answer the whole questionnaire, and then write a poem based on our answers, answer just a few, or just write a poem…
Away wi ye!
Challenged to write a poem that begins with a line from another poem (not necessarily the first one), and then goes elsewhere with it, I chose to use a line from the suggested resource of the day. I’d not read much Robert Burns prior, so it was an ironic pleasure to be reading his nationalist…
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