Hello Arthur,
Yes, regular exercise. In idle moments ( of which I have many) I sometimes like to play with Shakespeare´s sonnets. This is one you might like to try if you run out of other ideaas ( which doesn´t seem likely, actually). I take a sonnet, any sonnet, by Shakespeare. I remove everything except the final word of each line. I then attempt to write my own sonnet using those final words. The subject, of course, can be anything, it doesn´t have to be the same as Shakespeare´s original. I´ve done several of these and it can be interesting, though frustrating also. I think I may have posted one on The Works, Courtly Love. Does that ring a bell? If you, or anyone else, fancies trying this we could perhaps compare results.
Best wishes, Mike
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Not sure Mike. It would be nice to think so.
The reason is that just now not much moves me to write but I like the act
itself so I set myself tasks. Much like Wordsworth did his sonnet press-ups
on a daily basis and plundered Dorothy's journal for material, that's where
'Daffodils' came from by the way.
Exercise is good for the craft side of our chosen means of expression.
The proper name for this particular form would be an acrostic but I pulled
it horizontally as well, for fun, so renamed it acriscrostic. Regards
Arthur.
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From: "Mike Horwood" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Acriscrostic
Arthur, you just get inventiver and inventiver. Does this happen to everyone
when they reach their 70th birthday?
Best wishes, Mike
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Castle: an aciscrostic or an acrostictactoe
(Check the initials of each of the six words in each of the six lines across
and down )
Can anything stand? Time levels everything.
Although strongest towers last eleven centuries
Stilll he last elements crumble away.
The loftiest edifice collapses and subsides.
Love eases, care ameliorates, still time
Eviscerates conceit, annihilates such tawdry lots.
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