'from'?
Interesting term. If anything it is 'from' a book by Sally Brownjohn, 'To
rhyme or not to rhyme'.
SB borrowed the idea from Edwin Morgan's 'A view of things' and used it to
create an exercise (amongst many others) designed to inspire children to
write poetry.
As SB's is a book I shamelessly plagiarise, I am happy to promote it. Sadly
she only refers to Edwin Morgan and does not reproduce the poem. Not so
sadly, for me, I suspect, as it might have been too hard to measure up to.
Terri )O(
-----Original Message-----
From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Sally Evans
Sent: 22 February 2003 21:54
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Subject: Re: New: Exercise #1
You know this is from Edwin Morgan's poem don't you?
Just making sure
what I hate about Pam is her pinkie
etc
(pinkie is Scots for the little finger)
bw
SallyE
on 22/2/03 9:45 pm, alderoak at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Exercise #1
>
> What I love about books
> is running my fingers up and down their smoothly printed spines.
> What I hate about spines
> is the slippery soft-centredness of intervertebral discs.
> What I love about discs
> is snapping the cellophane on a pristine jewel-case.
> What I hate about jewel-cases
> is that elusive fingernail of grey fluff in each velvet corner.
> What I love about corners
> is pebble-dash, cannoned by random shopping trolleys exposing the bricks.
> What I hate about bricks
> is the hackneyed toppling of wobbly rainbow alphabets.
> What I love about alphabets
> is the infinite creativity of the human voice distilled to a spatter of
> codes in a book.
> What I hate about books…
>
>
> Terri )O(
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