Last week I missed my Sunday visual poetry due to a very fun and special family birthday party, so today I’ll be exploring two homographs: Content and Contest. Content & Contest Let’s start with a quick overview of the meanings of our homographs from dictionary.com. Each of these has two pronunciations as well. Content (kon-tent):Continue reading “No Contest for Content”
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#SoCS: Clearly Relieved
Relief I’m excited for a little relief today. I’ve had stomach pain the last couple days, so alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc. is greatly appreciated. A rain-free day with some sun is also something affording a pleasing change, as from monotony: release. While thinking about visually creating relief,Continue reading “#SoCS: Clearly Relieved”
Every Limitation an Opportunity
Opportunity When searching out a new opportunity, we open ourselves to “an appropriate or favorable time or occasion: a situation or condition favorable for attainment of a goal: a good position, chance, or prospect, as for advancement or success.” What is favorable? Affording advantage, opportunity, or convenience; advantageous. And advantageous? Furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable;Continue reading “Every Limitation an Opportunity”
The Mixed Mercies of Sleep
Mercy I’m finding this study of abstract nouns fascinating. We think we know what these words mean, but the more I study them, the less clear they become. When I dive into their definitions, I always find something surprising. Mercy has a very interesting definition: compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy,Continue reading “The Mixed Mercies of Sleep”
Oh, What Two Little Letters Can Do
Happiness This morning I was wondering, how is happiness different from other abstract nouns I’ve explored: comfort, joy, or delight? Then I looked up the definition and there they all were: good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy: delighted, pleased, or glad. So luck was in there too. Though one can be happy about a singular result–aContinue reading “Oh, What Two Little Letters Can Do”
An Impromptu Combination of Combines
Continuing my Sunday visual poetry, I’m abandoning my magnets for a new overlay idea that goes well with today’s homograph “combine.” Combine As you have probably noticed, I like to unite prompts for a common purpose; many prompts join forces to create one poem. I join many ideas into a close union, creating a newContinue reading “An Impromptu Combination of Combines”
#SoCS: Sticks and Stones and Words
Fragility The quality or state of being easily broken, shattered, damaged, or destroyed: delicate; brittle; frail: vulnerably delicate, as in appearance: lacking in substance or force; flimsy: in a weakened physical state; slight; tenuous: fragility comes to everything and everyone at one point or another. I think of thin, brittle, sheer tissue; skeletal frames; looseContinue reading “#SoCS: Sticks and Stones and Words”
Closing Out All the April Challenges
This Sunday is the first of the month, and all the challenges are over, but I thought I would close with a visual poem guided by a homograph. Close I really enjoy homographs that have different pronunciations. Close can be an adjective or adverb; a noun or verb.Pronounced klohsadjective – near in space or time:Continue reading “Closing Out All the April Challenges”
#SoCS & Day Thirty: Moving On with Zealousness
Zealousness Ardent activity, devotion, or diligence. What is ardent? With great conviction or zeal. I have no idea why I follow circular definitions with such intense emotion; passionately and fervently; such zealousness; I guess that’s something more for me to explore. Here we are at the last day of April: the last day of NationalContinue reading “#SoCS & Day Thirty: Moving On with Zealousness”
Day Twenty-Nine: The Birth of Yearning
Yearning Yearning is a deep longing: a strong, persistent craving or desire accompanied by tenderness or sadness for something unattainable or distant. Thinking about how to represent yearning, I thought about how the other abstract nouns I’ve explored this month are entangled with yearning: Ambition, Goals, Ideas, Needs and Hopes can induce yearning; people yearnContinue reading “Day Twenty-Nine: The Birth of Yearning”
Experience Writing 