[stylist] Poem - "Talking Dogs" - Secondish Draft

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

Yes, in my writing classes, we were pushed to not use clichés and find new
ways to describe things. It was always a great lessen. That's why I love
using a lyrical or poetical voice in my prose because I can find unique ways
in which to express myself.

Bridgit

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HI Brigit,

Thank you for your kind remarks!  I think that what's happening for me is
that I've spent my whole life struggling to express myself without falling
into cliche.  And after forty some odd years of doing this, my efforts are
finally showing fruits of that intention.  I think it's been true of me for
a long time now, actually, but nowadays it's true, and also paired with a
subtler sense of style and diction.  Anyway, enough of blatting my me-horn.
My best regards go to you, Brigit, as always.


=--Bill








On 5/22/2015 10:26 AM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist wrote:
> Bill,
>
> You always have such a unique way in which to describe the world. As 
> always, I love your use of diction and metaphor. That brain of yours 
> is mighty creative, smile.
>
> Bridgit
>
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> L Houts via stylist
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> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Talking Dogs" - Secondish Draft
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> Good Morning, Fellow Blinkie Artists,
>
> Just finished the following poem a little while ago.  I don't think 
> it's of much account, compared to some other poems of mine, but maybe 
> it's not without its charms, if I can say so without seeming a bit of a
> stinky cheese.   Comments welcome, as always.
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
> ---
>
> A blind man's enchanted gear these times,
>
> my wristwatch speaks the hour and day,
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> like some elf or fairy sage, correct and to the moment.
>
> The world is advancing, or turning backward:
>
> same result either way, it seems, with spirit voices
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> giving hints and tireless guidance
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> to the dim of eye or scattered mind.
>
> Almost, almost the sighted envy us. Just last month,
>
> a lady, startled by my time-ghost voice, remarked
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> that it might be fun, this blindness thing, or don't you agree?
>
> I could have told her that eyehs have never
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> been surpassed for coolness; gear as finely crafted
>
> as an emperor's robot hawk from fairy tales.
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> Braille is great, but reading English, for those
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> whose eyes have dimmed in later life,
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> accept all keenly crafted tech, but reflect
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> on foundered joys from time to time. And yet, I say,
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> that if you plan to lose your eyes,then do it now,
>
> when voices kind in sleek metallic togs
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> speak the way like gold angelic talking dogs.
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-- 


"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"


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