WORDS OF WISDOM

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

~A. B. Yehoshua

OBSCURE POET- CAROLYN (C. D.) WRIGHT (1949-2016)

Born in Mountain Home, Arkansas

Poet, professor

First collection of poems named ' Room Rented By A Single Woman.'

Also: One Big Self 

          One With Others

          Deepstep Come Shining

Lake Echo, Dear

BY C. D. WRIGHT

Is the woman in the pool of light

really reading or just staring

at what is written

Is the man walking in the soft rain

naked or is it the rain

that makes his shirt transparent

The boy in the iron cot

is he asleep or still

fingering the springs underneath

Did you honestly believe

three lives could be complete

The bottle of green liquid

on the sill is it real

The bottle on the peeling sill

is it filled with green

Or is the liquid an illusion

of fullness

How summer’s children turn

into fish and rain softens men

How the elements of summer

nights bid us to get down with each other

on the unplaned floor

And this feels painfully beautiful

whether or not

it will change the world one drop

LOVE TO PLAIN FOLK

If I was a screenwriter, I would write about people who aren't matinee idols or sirens. My subjects are plain and non descript. With Hollywood's accent on good looking performers, I want to give some love to folks who defy Hollywood's stereotypes.

SAME SOUND, DIFFERENT MEANING

Bail, bale

Base, bass

Pair, pare, pear

Peer, pier

Raise, raze

Waive, wave

Way, weigh

WORD OF WISDOM

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

~Henry Petroski

OBSCURE POET-ONO NO KOMACHI

 

tanka aka waka

Wrote in the most traditional format of Japanese literature

Classical (early Heian) period in Japanese literature  (794 AD-1185 AD)

Nothing much is known about her life.

Renowned for her unusual beauty

Among 36 Poetry Immortals

Poems are pensive, melancholy, and erotic. Most of her poems are melancholy.

A life in vain

My looks, talents faded

like these cherry blossoms

paling in the endless rains

that I gaze upon, alone.   

SAME SOUND, DIFFERENT MEANING

beat, beet

cent, scent, sent

coarse, course

clothes, close

loan, lone

oar, ore

root, route

scene, seen

sign, sine

whine, wine

WORDS OF WISDOM

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

~Mason Cooley, Writer (1927-2002)

DREDGING UP DEEP-SEATED FEELINGS

A friend of mine is writing her memoirs about her life transition. Writing a memoir, one will dredge up some bitter memories of the past. To leave those moments out could take away from the story. 

Writers can also bring out repressed or long-neglected feeling in themselves. I see this as crossing the divide. This has personally happened to me. I'm neither shocked nor surprised because I believe that writing should evoke these feelings. It's up to me how I choose to deal with them.  

SAME SOUND, DIFFERENT MEANING

Council, counsel

Currant, current

Dear, deer

Sear, seer

Soar, sore

Their, there

WORDS OF WISDOM

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

~ Tony Gilroy

HAPPY 4TH

 

SAME SOUND, DIFFERENT MEANING

Cream, creme

Feat, feet, fete

Meat, meet, mete

Which, witch

Width, with

FAMOUS WRITERS BORN IN JULY

Hart Crane

Alexandre Dumas

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Hesse

Ernest Hemingway

Aldous Huxley

Franz Kafka

Alice Munro

Pablo Neruda

Marcel Proust

J. K. Rowling

Wole Soyinka

Wislawa Szmborska

Henry David Thoreau

Margaret Walker

E. B. White

TO MY CANADIAN FRIENDS