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[color=#0000FF]Gold eh? Congratulations!
Ah, the last line – I would have another syllable.
How about
Judith Taylor’s gone a Googling again.Makes eleven, see? Just like the previous verse.
Now it’s perfect – wish I’d written it.
Sue[/color] 😡 (Green with envy)SueJones wrote:
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Ah, the last line – I would have another syllable.
How about Judith Taylor’s gone a Googling again.
[/color]No sooner said than…….. How dim am I not to have seen it for myself!
I guess from your three-part message that, like me, you could do with a link which would put your message on hold, like ‘minimize’ or save in ‘drafts’, while you go to other parts of the site to check on something. These days, if I have the slightest suspicion I may need to do that, I compose my message in Word, and when it’s complete, copy and paste it into this message box. I don’t think any of Gordon’s websites have had that facility – wish they did.
KeithD wrote:
Chambers says that the “a” in these constructions is “a reduced form of the Old English preposition an or on, meaning on, in or at….
There is no support or justification whatsoever for an apostrophe in the a-roving type of construction.I thought there was some justification for an apostrophe in that it is a shortened form, in which one letter has been dropped.
[color=#0000FF]Good idea.
I’m afraid I’m not very organised and a bit too spontaneous!Are you composing any juicy Valentines rhymes?
Sue[/color] B)
SueJones wrote:
Are you composing any juicy Valentines rhymes?
Well, no, I generally need to be in the grip of some emotion to come up with the urge to versify – and I haven’t got my eye on anyone at the moment! 😉
As an example, (and since you did ask), here is another feverish composition I wrote 10 years ago, after doing my first ever (and last) professional writing workshop. See what I mean?
STARTING TO WRITE
The fever’s still raging inside my poor head :
acrostics and haikus, a new A to Z ;
some rhymes that are concrete, internal ones too ;
and here a whole renga is strung out to view.How can I go back to my usual job,
with eyes that look inward and temples that throb?
There’s so much excitement still churning around,
a brand-new direction will have to be found.Is poetry the answer, to fill up my time ;
or stories or articles, romance or crime?
Perhaps if I work at a journal each day,
I’ll get in the habit Рand then make it pay!And all the bewitchment of starting to write
will not fade away like a dream of the night ;
and I shall say ‘thankyou’ to Wes(ley?) Magee,
who knew how to bring out the writer in me.But as for a night’s rest, I rather misdoubt
that ever again I shall sleep the night out!© Judith Taylor 1994
– and I haven’t got my eye on anyone at the moment!
Many a man has become broken hearted in the ether, tonight!
Judith wrote
– and I haven’t got my eye on anyone at the moment!
Phil wrote:
Many a man has become broken hearted in the ether, tonight!
So I had a look at your website, Phil, to see who you really are. After all it is Leap Year, and you never know where a gal’s roving eye may come to rest. Happy Valentine’s!
😉 :laugh:Judith wrote:
[So I had a look at your website, Phil, to see who you really are. After all it is Leap Year, and you never know where a gal’s roving eye may come to rest. Happy Valentine’s!
😉 :laugh:[/quote][color=#0000FF]I was going to congratulate you on the pome but as you and Phil appear to be having a romantic interlude I won’t intrude!! 😉 :laugh:
Sue[/color]SueJones wrote:
I was going to congratulate you on the pome but as you and Phil appear to be having a romantic interlude I won’t intrude!! 😉 :laugh:
Oh, that was just an idle threat, Sue. To be honest, there are so many decent blokes in this Project that a gal is hard put to it to make up her mind! :unsure:
Judith wrote:
Oh, that was just an idle threat, Sue. To be honest, there are so many decent blokes in this Project that a gal is hard put to it to make up her mind! :unsure:[/quote][color=#0000FF]So true!
There’s one in particular I have my eye on- what d’ya think toSorry, got to go.
Sue Purr [/color] 😉 B)
SueJones wrote:
So true! There’s one in particular I have my eye on- what d’ya think to…
Sorry, got to go.
I’m enjoying this game – do you think we’re making ’em nervous?
Any chance of your being at Wallasey for the Minifest – we could look ’em over together and compare ….. err ….. notes.I might end up scratching your eyes out though. :angry:
Judith wrote:
SueJones wrote:
[quote]So true! There’s one in particular I have my eye on- what d’ya think to…Sorry, got to go.
I’m enjoying this game – do you think we’re making ’em nervous?
Any chance of your being at Wallasey for the Minifest – we could look ’em over together and compare ….. err ….. notes.
I might end up scratching your eyes out though. :angry:[/quote][color=#0000FF][b]Mmmm, very tempting.
Sue Purr [/b][/color] 😉
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