I like 'angrily / numb' best. 'comfortably' would also work ;)
KS
On 26/10/2007, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And yet we've only to observe a small child beginning to talk, to realise
> that nouns come first, and presumably always did. My observation of my own
> three led me to suppose that adverbs, and slightly later certain basic
> adjectives, come well before verbs.
>
> Incidentally, observing a small child with a limited vocabulary trying to
> express a thought more complex than it has words for, one realises how soon
> metaphor comes into the picture.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janet Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:26 AM
> Subject: nounless poem (Re: New at Sharp Sand )
>
>
> >> Getting rid of nouns and writing a whole poem that depends on adverbs as
> >> much as most poems depend on nouns would be an interesting exercise,
> >
> > ok, here goes... no nouns or verbs allowed...
> >
> >
> > awkwardly
> > tentative
> >
> > confidently
> > passionate
> >
> > vigorously
> > brazen
> >
> > somehow
> > stinky
> >
> > angrily
> > numb
> >
> > succinctly
> > alone
> >
> >
> > Is this sentimental? yeah, I think it is. Sneeringly sentimental,
> > and trying to be clever for the sake of it. (I can say that, I wrote it.)
> > Originally I used only adverbs but decided adjectives were necessary
> > to make it a poem at all. I had no desire to add nouns, but verbs
> > kept trying to creep in masquerading as adjectives (eg 'broken'
> > 'swallowed').
> > It is extremely abstract. I don't like it at all.
> > Nouns may be optional, but perhaps we can't write well without verbs.
> >
> > Janet
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> > Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
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> >
> > The songbird in its cage
> > Sings not for joy, but rage!
> > --Italian proverb
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
>
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