Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you —Stevie Nicks 17 You can think wha...
In a basic acrostic, the first letters of each line might together spell out a word or a phrase. Acrostics that are more complicated might make the hidden message difficult to find by putting the essential letters elsewhere. Other ways poems can make use of visual elements are by using ...
To quote Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers.” Indeed. Here’s the last bird! Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Posted in Chicago Portage Woods, photography, spring migration, Vireos, Warblers | Tagged Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, Blue-Headed Vireo, Nashville Warbler, Orange-Crowned Warbler | 6...
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. — C. S. Lewis 52 A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundat...
“Life is a spell so exquisite,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “that everything conspires to break it.” Wonder holds us spellbound. It does so in part by calling everything we think we know into question. For a moment, we cease to know. What we deem real is a dream. What we dream is...
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because this relates the boys to the tree in the way that they come from a seed in the ground. This creates more of a bond between the boys and the tree because it makes it feel like they are more of equals. Finally, I used alliteration when I wrote, “late loving lifelong…” and...
As in stop reading this and start spell-checking. I can tell that all of this begging is not flying with some of you. “But Anne,” the recalcitrant protest (blogging gives one very sensitive ears, capable of discerning the dimmest of cries out there in the ether), “what if I’ve...
"You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you" —Lil Wayne 66 Bring me the sunset in a cup. —Emily Dickinson 118 Short Summoned Quotes The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. —Jacques Necker ...