Hi Robin--thanks for the skinny on garden gnomes. What
they mean to me is a distraught Geraldine Monk, whose
beloved gnome was broken several years ago, sadly.
The term also suggests the gnomic, of course.
Candice
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. frog poem for kids (11)
> 2. Ampersand listing
> 3. Bob Grumman
> 4. the Poets' Corner
> 5. Serious SNOW in Italy (2)
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> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:51:47 +0300
> From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: frog poem for kids
>
> I like the gnome turn of phrase a lot, Ted Hughes
> might very well have
> called a frog a gnome
>
> KS
>
> On 13/09/2007, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > I also wrote my frog snap as a poem for my
> grandkids, just for fun:
> >
> > WANALIRRI FROGGI
> >
> > froggy froggy
> > you look so funny
> > swimming in our dunny!
> >
> > won't you leave now?
> > I have a full tummy -
> > go home to Mummy!
> >
> > green as a leaf
> > with long yellow feet
> > and eyes so big and sweet
> >
> > froggy froggy
> > you look so funny
> > swimming in our dunny!
> >
> > why don't you swim
> > to home sweet home?
> > you're green as a gnome!
> >
> > I'll take you to the well:
> > that will suit you swell
> > (besides, there's no smell!).
> >
> > froggy froggy
> > you look funny funny funny
> > swimming in our dunny!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:57:06 +0300
> From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Ampersand listing
>
> as an advocate of this particular symbol, this is
> fun to me but also
> just for the stunning background that theimage seems
> to conjure. this
> is less abstract than your usual work. questions
> jump up like, how
> large is this ampersand? is it made of metal (looks
> rusty)? who left
> it there? where is it? beautiful
>
> KS
>
> On 13/09/2007, Peter Ciccariello
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Ampersand listing
> <http://cgi7.com/peterimages/ampersand-listing2.jpg>
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Peter Ciccariello
> > http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:00:58 +0300
> From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Bob Grumman
>
> I'm all for the distinction Grumman seems to be
> making. I have a haiku
> essay of my own, it's been in the works for almost
> two years but my
> interest in haiku waned slightly so it's been
> neglected for a long
> while. but I've long had a distaste for modern
> haiku, and the fashion
> in which 'haiku' are masqueraded around in junior
> highschool textbooks
> & such. the pop culture understanding of the word
> haiku is what it is,
> and it's a fine linguistic entity in itself; but it
> almost always
> fails to be separated from the artform, & that kills
> me. a bit.
>
> KS
>
> On 13/09/2007, Anny Ballardini
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Bob Grumman's great effort:
> > http://bobgrumman.com/FromHaikuToLyriku/index.html
> >
> > go for it!
> >
> > Anny Ballardini
> > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> >
> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to
> give birth to a dancing
> > star!
> > Friedrich Nietzsche
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:51:31 +0100
> From: Robin Hamilton
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: frog poem for kids
>
> >I like the gnome turn of phrase a lot, Ted Hughes
> might very well have
> > called a frog a gnome
> >
> > KS
>
> I presume that everyone here is aware that the
> modern garden gnome is a
> direct result of a strike by eighteenth century
> professional hermits?
>
> True -- read it in the papers.
>
> One Who Was There
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:05:32 +0100
> From: Peter Cudmore
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: frog poem for kids
>
> Boy, those Professional Association of Hermits
> annual conferences were
> always a riot.
>
> P
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Robin Hamilton
> > Sent: 14 September 2007 02:52
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: frog poem for kids
> >
> > >I like the gnome turn of phrase a lot, Ted Hughes
> might very well have
> > > called a frog a gnome
> > >
> > > KS
> >
> > I presume that everyone here is aware that the
> modern garden gnome is a
> > direct result of a strike by eighteenth century
> professional hermits?
> >
> > True -- read it in the papers.
> >
> > One Who Was There
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:21:39 +0100
>
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