Catching Up
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By celticman
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Writing
was not necessary
No
cause or even is
Just
something you did
Made
mistakes
Learned
to sneak away
And
play
Games
with different rules
Grateful
for string lines
Allowing
some words to grow
Cultivating
my curiosity
A
child’s waywordness
A
gentle belief in storks
Crayons
and sticky craft
Seeds
and no weeds
Just
small and tall flowers
Listened
to no adult voice
Dug
stonking deep holes
Fired
early drafts
But
never blamed my craft
I
wish you all kinds of well
On
our synonymous path
Let’s
compost composition
Grow
compassion
Learn
how to spell
In
the same way a dog smells
Rekindle
our love of letters
And
all things daft
All
will be well in all kinds of ways.
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Comments
A creative composition with
A creative composition with underlying meaning. I imagine "waywordness" is intentionally spelt like that here? Enjoyed, CM
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Really nice to see a poem
Really nice to see a poem from you, and it's a beautiful one too. Love this:
All
will be well in all kinds of ways.
A message of reassurance and much needed hope. Congratulations on the cherries!
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LOVED THIS :0) You've gone
LOVED THIS :0) You've gone straight into the heart of discovering about writing in primary school, drawing words out of your mind to make something no one else could know about otherwise - exciting or comforting or daft to make them laugh. All equally wonderful. The idea of a spelling being like a smelling out, I had never thought of, the image of snuffing across a forgetful field after the correct way to spell a word, and suddenly it rises, up out of tall grass and flies into your memory settling comfortably :0)
Really, really wonderful poem!!!
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I enjoyed this arrangement of
I enjoyed this arrangement of words. It's very different and got me thinking about how writing becomes so natural but only after years of learning to spell, punctuate and the rest. To be both creative and articulate, you have to dig stonking deep holes and only when conditions allow.
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Fwaw... a style I'm not used
Fwaw... a style I'm not used to seeing from you Celticman!
This reminds me of all the things that went through my head when I'd been at school a couple of years. Learning's necessary in life but we can learn so much in our own way.
Brilliant stuff! Good on you!
Turlough
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