Words – Another Fearless Year

January 14, 2019

The Art of Revision

“Pick a different word,” she wrote “This word appears 44 times in this manuscript. Use your thesaurus.” So I change pain to anguish or misery Substitute torment for suffering Replace anger with outrage Switch adore for love Editing is about changing yet saying the same...

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July 5, 2016

Seeking Truth

Words matter. Our choice of words, whether speaking or writing, makes a difference. And words have meaning. That’s what dictionaries are for—to tell us what words mean. When we try to use words to mean something other than what they really mean, it causes confusion....

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April 9, 2015

Out of Words

Why, oh why, did I decide to do NaPoWriMo? I knew I had too much to do this month to take on something else, but once I say I’m going to do something I have a hard time letting it go. So after finishing two...

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March 19, 2015

Words Lurk

Another dVerse challenge I couldn’t resist. Victoria has called us to action, to use verbs to improve our poetry. She suggested taking an older poem and rewriting it to replace any tired “to be” verbs with action verbs. I took an extremely old one of...

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June 6, 2014

Words from Above – A Poem

The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub yesterday (and still there today) is to write a poem about our thoughts on the failure of language to capture our thoughts and feelings. I immediately thought about the challenge of writing a poem to a specific form, though...

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March 5, 2014

Fewer Words – A Poem

The prompt over at dVerse Poets Pub yesterday was to write poem about a time or times that influenced our evolution to the poet we are today. I had to really think about this one to come up with something, and here’s what I came...

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November 8, 2012

The Power of Words – A Poem

As a general rule, I love words. I love arranging them to express a thought or idea. But strung together in the wrong way, words can hurt another person far worse than any physical harm. Words are powerful. Let’s use their power for good, and...

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November 17, 2010

Let My Words Be Few

I was led to a new poetry blog today and was amazed again at how poets can say so much with so few words. My friend Deb does it every day. It reminded me of this verse from Matthew and I was inspired to write...

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Another Fearless Year

Tag: Words

The Art of Revision

Seeking Truth

Out of Words

Words Lurk

Words from Above – A Poem

Fewer Words – A Poem

The Power of Words – A Poem

Let My Words Be Few

Tag: Words

The Art of Revision

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Seeking Truth

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Words Lurk

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Words from Above – A Poem

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