This morning’s piece…

…is, once again, a new work, written, albeit more directly this time, and not from memory, from two much, much older works. Both of these were two quatrains of Octameter. This was approximately the correct number of words and syllables to make a sonnet. 8 * 8 * 2 gives us 128 syllables. I kept the rhymes, although I moved them so they would ring with each other in a manner more true. Also Added a few more; so that, in all lines, there are three rhyming words, but sometimes there are four. Continue reading

My sweetheart gave me…

…a wonderful idea!  She mentioned that people hadn’t been looking very far back in time on the site.  She thought that was a shame.  That made me think along these lines:

“Well…” I thought to myself, “The site really is like a long book of verse isn’t it?”

“So,” I continued to think to myself, “Why not make it easier for someone to move through the work from the beginning?” Continue reading