Monthly Archives: June 2012

A new page for you

Posted on June 30, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

I’ve started a new page for fiction (see header) and put in the first chapter of my novella “Anne’s Fortune” – more to come tomorrow when I’ve tidied up Chapter 2.  I hope you enjoy it.

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A triumphant wordle

Posted on June 30, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Not that I managed to use all of this week’s wordle words*  – I used only 6 and one of those was cut on editing – but that I managed to reduce to 33 words the emotion of the wonderful week … Continue reading →

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6-word-Saturday: where have all my friends gone?

Posted on June 30, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Having pretty well blogged my week as it happened, I have little left to say.  Preparations for Carneval are hotting up, and yesterday I looked round the hangar at the  collection of half-finished floats and groaned!  We’ll never be ready in time for NEXT … Continue reading →

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Byinvenuns sus la Viqùipédie en normaund

Posted on June 29, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Mischievous Manchois talk to tourists in patois, pretend it is French. There are more Normaund words in English than you think. Joseph Harker’s latest Reverie concentrates on endangered languages. I live in the presqu’ île of the Cotentin peninsula.  In this … Continue reading →

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THANKFUL TANKA

Posted on June 29, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

No synonym for my state of mind, encouraged by teacher-poet that less is frequently more. The word I want is grateful.  Hannah’s prompt  at We Write Poems was to write a Tanka.  Tankas are often about nature and the nature … Continue reading →

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Sunday Opening

Posted on June 29, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Sunday Opening They arrive in clean cars for the townsman’s Sunday rite. Soothing musak sets the mood for orderly progress up the aisles. Colourful treasures beckon towards the high priest of meat via harvest fruits and biblical fishes, odour of … Continue reading →

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What a Day

Posted on June 28, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Following two days during which we were lulled into a false sense of security, with directed and sometimes lively discussions about poetry, and delightful evening readings. Today the thumbscrews were produced:  concentrated timed exercises in silence (painful for most of … Continue reading →

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To be going on with

Posted on June 27, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  A glint of sunlight fights a losing battle with a bank of cloud A raw swirling wind clears its throat for fiercer blow. Is this flaming June?

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Summer

Posted on June 26, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

 for Margo – not yet a poem, a freewrite based on the first of her sumer Tuesday Tryouts.  I’ve been too busy to do much with it, but felt I should show willing! Bring out summer clothes too soon and put them back … Continue reading →

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More morning pages

Posted on June 26, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Poets are strange creatures.   Some who are slightly deranged, make poems that none can understand. Others, like me, are pragmatists, who make everything window clear. And then there are those poetic souls who weave magic with words. Never mind … Continue reading →

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words written= 0, fun had = gallons

Posted on June 25, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

I have just returned home after a day when I did not write a word (other than the odd note), but full of joy and sizzling from a morning spent talking about poetry with delightful poets, an afternoon one-to-one with Rosie Bailey … Continue reading →

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A sucker for punishment

Posted on June 25, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

After my last demoralising participation in a poetry workshop recently I am putting my head back on the block this week.  I love RV Bailey’s poetry, and am hoping to put back the zest in my own after a week … Continue reading →

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Pragmatism = Beauty

Posted on June 24, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

    Image © Margaret Bednar ~  i & I ~  2012 Pragmatism = Beauty Rusty rustic inventiveness or maybe sheer necessity makes a convenient gate from obsolete machinery, a new perspective on the scene and a charming picture. for http://withrealtoads.blogspot.fr/?zx=b5584de227c1b80e

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Support

Posted on June 24, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

This week’s prompt made me giggle, and my first two attempts are rather irreverent, so I thought I’d better dig a little deeper for the final two!  My mother swore by the support of Spirella – famous for corsets. * … Continue reading →

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wordle 62

Posted on June 24, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

    Trapped  in the domain of the evil one, flawed demons scrap with granite will. The nightmare ends when the  ample montage morphs into a more tranquil scene. I watch from a window the story unfold like winter jasmine … Continue reading →

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