Couldn't resist, KS/Stan...a sensorium
(thinking of B words is much harder than S words)
Bo ~ be-boppin-, breezing, blooping, bangling, bally-hooing, baffling, basket-weaving and bona fide batty,
Hee-hee!
Bo
a cornucopia of C words
chameleon ~ constantly conflicted, compromising, condemned creative, clakkity-clack.
Make a Wish . . . Make it Happen!
Hi friends -
In the spirit of letters and alphabets, here's one for love. We could do these for anything - how about a collage alphabet? a poem alphabet? a digital alteration alphabet? Or even a favorite food/taste alphabet? I may try that one next.
KateSinging, lover of letters
A Valentine’s Alphabet
Alluring
Blossoming
Charming
Delightful
Elegant
Frisky
Gallant
Handsome
I-catching
Joyous
Kaleidoscopic
Loving
Mallard-flashy
Necessary
Open-hearted
Passionate
Quirky
Romance-able
Steamy
Tousled
Ululation!
Vivacious
Wide-eyed
X-marks-the-spot
Zing, zing, zing!
Kate
22 February 2008
A Poem About Letters
Those marks printed in black capitalsstared at me as I stared at themthey held a secret I could not entanglelines and circles, squiggleswhat was I to do with them
Sent to her starnge room when I was only fourwhen no one could understand my twisted wordsperhaps the speech therapist could train my tongueand line my words into comprehensible speech.
And so Miss Mack used her phonics' boardsnot realizing I did not know those signs.Each week she taught me soundsand matched them to each letter.
Autumn passed and on a December eveningI sat upon my granny's lap and cuddledready to listen to a bedtime storygranny cleared her throat and read the title.
Those words, I knew those words!I knew all the words she read!Thrilled with discovery, each word slipped off my tongueand I read on, read every word my eyes devoured.
How many times since thenalone and caressing a fragile, frightened soulhave I entertained myself with words flowing from pagesand found my world filled to the brimdreaming in technicolor and enunciated sounds.
bfahrenbac:Couldn't resist, KS/Stan...a sensorium(Bo
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Bo, my friend! I just read this again and got it (long delay for KS sometimes!). I love it as a title for a sensual alphabet, or also perhaps as the name for a chamber of delights. "Please, follow me, " dramatic pause...
"into the sensorium." Fabulous word!
I love this poem, Bo. It helps remind us how odd these "marks" can seem to people who don't understand them - so random and even frightening. You paint such a vivid picture of that bafflement and separation caused by not knowing - and then the epiphany that comes in a moment of warmth and safety (which is some of the best learning there is). That is so dear.
My true love's mother tells me that one night when he was very little and just beginning to learn to read, he cried out in a panic. She ran in and found him sitting up, looking a bit dazzled. He told her that the "big letters" had been twirling and prancing around in the air over his little bed. He was, to put it bluntly, freaked out by letters! Apparently he learned to read soon after this wild moment. Thanks for sharing this bit of your own "technicolor" vision.
your fellow letter-fan -
KateSinging/Stan
M is a good letter for m-e, then, I will play with m for a while, a few words, I love you all:
mothers
matriarchs
moments of inti-mate
mystery
mothers,
many things
mothers:
e-man-cipators
freedo-m to be my-self
From GOYA
I love this letter, this is a GREAT POEM, speak to the contrary
of what a letter should be?Wonderful narrative poem.GOYA
Hi letter-lovers! Here's my Expressabits Alphabet. You might recognize some of these everyday expressions! I know that I definitely have NOT heard "queer as a three-dollar bill" but I'm kind of glad I found it 'cuz there's not many 'Q' expressions!
Chameleon, that is FABULOUS! You rock!
KateSinging
Chameleon, this is so creative! Great job, it made me smile. Love the colors, too.
Isabella
Wonderful, so out of the box, pie in the sky. And the colors were the cat's meow.
What a smart poem, Chamaleon !!!!!
I want to do one in Spanish ; a friend of mine,
wrote a similar poem, but she used only the beginning of the proverb, then change it...
congratulaciones,
GOYA
Thanks so much everyone for encouraging me with my writing ~~ it was lots of fun putting it together!
- chameleon