Sunday, August 15, 2010

Beads on a string...


I love language, the way words taste on my tongue. The way words can be strung together like beads on a string. This is a beautiful way to think about writing stories and, I must admit, this is how my mom described it to me once. She talked about her love for language and how with thousands of words to choose from, it's how you string them together that makes a sentence, a paragraph, a story. It's how words come together in a wonderful way. My writing mentor, Anita Riggio, described it in the same fashion. Or did she say pearls on a necklace? I love this thought and I love the image it portrays.

When I teach poetry, I call it bumping words together. Colliding words together in a new or unusual pattern. For example, honey rouge, strawberry bark, apple moon, ocean tangerine, lavender parsnips.
Now you try it...


2 comments:

  1. Ocean tangerine... I like the sound of that. :)

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  2. I like this--a lot! I love your description of poetry--bumping words together! Maybe there's hope for my poetry career, after all! ;-)

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