Neighbor Boys II
Pre-warning: I take nothing seriously, so laugh along with me at any over-dramatic tone, and remember what it felt like, too, to be a child-warrior.
Wintry night
The world looked wild
This late at night
Trees darkly bleak
Against all that white
Frigid air stops
As though God hit pause
No sound comes through
This bitter Oz
No animal
Civilized or wild
Stirs the night
Opaquely bright
All in all, how strange!
What creatures could exist?
In this field so light
In this dead of night
Both life and death
Must wait for dawn
To break the song
I step back in
To the warmth of home
Cozy orange, a beacon
This late at night
Trees darkly bleak
Against all that white
Frigid air stops
As though God hit pause
No sound comes through
This bitter Oz
No animal
Civilized or wild
Stirs the night
Opaquely bright
All in all, how strange!
What creatures could exist?
In this field so light
In this dead of night
Both life and death
Must wait for dawn
To break the song
I step back in
To the warmth of home
Cozy orange, a beacon
I Feel Too Young to Write a Novel
"And it hurries to live and it hastens to feel." - Prince Vyazemsky, "The Snow"
Clef-Cat
The treble clef sits like a cat Watching the sharps and flats— Like little dancing mice— Point out the steps For the notes The song skips along Mocking the lazy clef-cat Who dangles her tail Below the staff She sniffs—nose in the air Scenting the mincing music
The Tale of Ander Collins--Chapter Twenty-Eight
Character Sketch ~ Linwood Godfrey~ My own character
The main villian of a 1920s, historical fiction novel. Enjoy!!
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Can one man so easily become a persistent terror to whoever come across him?
A Vocabulary Assignment
This is an assignment that I did using all the new vocab words I learned…..
The pacifist held the commanders’ attention. His words swept the room in thoughts of a lucrative outcome, a banishing of larceny; this duplicity was soon broken.
Den Vakre En/The Beautiful One
Den Vakre En
The Beautiful One
Warded against
Weapons of foes
All swore the oath
Save mistletoe
Loki, disguised,
Learned of the plant
The bane fateful
To cause Balder’s death
Loki, the sly,
Laughing guided
Blind Hœnir’s dart
Heedlessly thrown
“Where did it fall?”
“Where did it land?”
Asgard fell silent
Aghast by fate
Mistletoe’s kiss
Murdered the god
Odin’s fair son
Asgard’s most loved
Balder the fair
The Beautiful One
Warded against
Weapons of foes
All swore the oath
Save mistletoe
Loki, disguised,
Learned of the plant
The bane fateful
To cause Balder’s death
Loki, the sly,
Laughing guided
Blind Hœnir’s dart
Heedlessly thrown
“Where did it fall?”
“Where did it land?”
Asgard fell silent
Aghast by fate
Mistletoe’s kiss
Murdered the god
Odin’s fair son
Asgard’s most loved
Balder the fair
!Friendship!
!Friendship!
A secret contact that will never be told
different but so alike
a beautiful loving hold
jump to the top of the highest key
Fabulous is the voice of thee
oh isn't the batter so Delicious!
the recipe for friendship is also nutritious
good for the body's, good for the souls
!!!and the best part is it never MOLDS!!!
Wygate's Used Books, 2
Straight off the door next morning, I said: "Noah Webster published his first dictionary in 1828." (I had done a bit of research.)
Wygate was, again, writing at his desk. Without looking up, he said, "That would have been more impressive had it come yesterday."
"Mr. Webster might have put off publishing to suit you—indeed, who wouldn’t try to suit you?—but could standardized spelling have withstood the delay?"