Being the smartest person among your friends is surely a great boost for your ego. It can help you gain their approval, receive compliments, and maybe even get a date or two while hanging out at the bar with your friends. But the other side of the coin is that using overly sophisticated...
One of the many words that doesn’t correlate with the spelling rhyme you got taught at school: “I before E except after C”. Dreich is the term to describe something that’s dreary or bleak. Usually the weather. “A cal, dreich day” = “a cold, bleak day”. Funnily enough if ...
A SCRABBLE word finder and Words with Friends word finder where you enter letters that get instantly unscrambled to display all dictionary words you can play on the board. The order of the letters does not matter. Shows you the point value of every word.
Book 3 of The Tide Child, do not start here you oaf. Nautical fantasy that often teeters on the edge of too grimdark for me, but pulls it back. I was a bit alarmed starting this last part, but courage: it’s full of hope, defiance against all odds, courage, and solidarity, and ...
Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in a poem, I know I’m being lied to. Go ahead, Laugh! Its true---rhyme’s a completely bankrupt device. It’s just wishful thinking. Nostalgia” (Wolff 44). At the beginning of the ...
A poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and that often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure. In her poem, “Variations of the Word ‘“love”’,” Margaret Atwoo...
A universal redux version of my Meteor attempt at Words with Friends (online scrabble). - words-with-strangers-redux/input_words.txt at master · joshwcomeau/words-with-strangers-redux
Go With It! Soul enraptured Moment captured Eros tosses a dart Straight to your hearts Sing together Go with it! Let the love flow through rhyme and time The music will soothe as you lose yourself in each other Just two hearts Beating as one ...
“A tweet, a tweet, my kingdom for a tweet!” “Alas, poor Twitter, almost afraid to know itself!” “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite tweets.” “All that twitters is not gold.” “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely tweete...
Consider one form that crosses over between poetry and music, the ballad. Ballads are clearly written for the ear, using rhyme and in some cases, repetition as part of the form. A good example of this is the American folk song, “John Henry” about a legendary African-American steel drive...