April 21, 2014 #NaPoWriMo14
#Twitterversary.
Five years twittering.
Post Baghdad-funk –
not even a week in Hawai’i
180 degrees away
could shake the sleepless nights -
and so I twittered;
pre-Damascus-buzz,
duty phoned – don’t answer calls
from that office the next time –
definitely needed-to-tweet period.
This is a poem.
April 20, 2014 #NaPoWriMo
It matters that Frost wrote “Stopping
By the Woods” in rubaiyat form,
a Persian, Farsi quartrain style,
imported to the Christian west.
And it matters that the same
person who invented TED talks
coined the term information
architecture. An architect.
I roll the dice: a rising star;
an old man’s thoughts; and energy
radiating out from the center –
The message is in the grammar –
the structure that houses the space –
content – - is just the vehicle.
April 19, 2014 #NaPoWriMo
Today’s project task is the writing of
a compelling introduction for the
project report. It is the final step.
Strange practice, one might think, saving for last
the introduction, like ending a website
construction process with the homepage.
Maybe a better analogy is icing
on a cake, a cherry in the middle.
Dare I deliver them poetry? A sonnet,
perhaps, or rubaiyat? Some terza rima
or octava? Of course it will be prose,
of course: conventional, traditional,
paragraphical but purposeful prose,
with maybe an occasional hidden rhyme.
a compelling introduction for the
project report. It is the final step.
Strange practice, one might think, saving for last
the introduction, like ending a website
construction process with the homepage.
Maybe a better analogy is icing
on a cake, a cherry in the middle.
Dare I deliver them poetry? A sonnet,
perhaps, or rubaiyat? Some terza rima
or octava? Of course it will be prose,
of course: conventional, traditional,
paragraphical but purposeful prose,
with maybe an occasional hidden rhyme.
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