Painting with a,b,c, …

By Rhiannonw

Fri, 10 May 2013
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Arranging letters, weaving sound
– to form words which my thought expounds,
encapsulates, communicates
when rightly linked to many more
in front, behind, next and before …

Placing words with care to share –
a picture, sculpture to prepare:
some truth, an incident, idea –
concise, checked out and crystal clear,
unambiguous, and snatching
wandering thoughts to listen, catching –
(padding waffle cut to keep
attention, mustn’t send to sleep);

not too long, but full, complete,
saying what intended, neat.

Well that’s the aim,
we can but try,
and hope that what's within the frame
be understood, pleasure supply.

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Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

Another uncommented on thus far piece of work.

I like the fact that you are raising the status of us who play with words to the level of the artists - and certainly a lot of writers' work is of equal or greater value that that of the greatest artist. But even on the very mundane level of playing scrabble, there is a lot of beauty and pleasure to be had in finding combinations of letters to make words that fit a criterion. And learning always learning more about our beautiful language. Yesterday I learned that the two letter word, ZA, which has recently been allowed, is a shortened form of pizza.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jean. Yes, I often think that working on poem ideas is a bit like sculpture, as I chip away on 'awkward corners' and are thankful for an idea to express it better or more clearly, and the end product be it prose or poetry is somehow 'placed in a frame'.

When we do our 'scrabble puzzle for the day' on the calendar, we rather groan when we guess it is involving those 2 letter words, and have to get the list out – some of them are very odd! Yesterday's puzzle though involved probably adding a letter to 'outran' and we had a 'k' and it was double letter for the 2 words. My husband thought of 'gecko' which seemed really good, but didn't score enough there. I had just thought of 'fake' which didn't seem so good though I think scored more than 'gecko'. In the end it was 'gecko' but it was the 'g' that was to be added to the 'outran' to make 'outrang'?!
Rhiannon