Tag: rhyme
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Week 11: 9-22 September
There’s no stopping them now. The momentum has built with each communal poem – they have sprouted an air of confidence. I rather like the tangents this week’s communal poem takes, albeit surprising (and still a little bumpy rhythmically). Again there’s a morbid fascination, and dark humour – possibly from the same coffee hound who…
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Week 10: 2-8 September
They did it again! The caffeine fiends at The Bean Barn didn’t just follow the line I left on the residency whiteboard, they led it down some seedy lane ways and back alleys. Nine different sets of handwriting appeared on the board over the week, with some truly alarming word selection and a bit of…
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Week 9: 26 Aug-1 Sept
The poem that magically appeared on the residency whiteboard this week resembled a communal effort! I had started it off with two lines instead of one, and chose the Ditty Approach: a silly rhyme with a little alliteration. People got into it and responded with two lines each, following the sentiment. Perhaps the coffee-soaked environment…
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Week 8: 19-25 August
You may recall I started a ‘communal poem’ on the whiteboard at the Bean Barn in a bid to get the visiting coffee fiends engaged in a round of poetry badminton of sorts. Then I waited. And saw. Interesting result. Rather more on the scary end of the Interesting Spectrum than I’d have hoped, however.…
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Week 4: 22-28 July
How’s this: you wouldn’t think when it’s so easy to ‘just google it’ that I would mistake Roald Dahl for an Australian. Clearly this is an example of that phenomenon where, if you like them enough, well, they must be Australian. Just like the Queen is. I never said I was an expert on poetry.…
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