Today’s new word: perfidy n. 1. deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery. 2. an act or instance of faithlessness or treachery. National Poetry Writing Month prompt: Write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail. This prompt is quite timely.Continue reading “P is for perfidy- Poem: Little Bee”
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O is for ostracon – Poem: I Am a Piece
Today’s new word: ostracon n. a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. In an archaeological or epigraphical context, ostraca refer to sherds or even small pieces of stone that have writing scratched into them. Usually these are considered to have been broken off before the writing was added;Continue reading “O is for ostracon – Poem: I Am a Piece”
Experience Writing 