Tag: Playing with Words
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A Seahorse? Nonsense!

When is a horse not a horse? When it’s a horse of the sea, of course. Of course it isn’t a horse of sorts, it’s a sort of fish or so we’re taught. A fish horse thought it ought be called something wrought with water’s thought, so thought the sea a fitting thought, thus the…
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Passage

Blocks ahead But There’s a way through This here’s a (very bad) piku. It’s a bit like a haiku, but shorter. It’s based on the first three numbers of pi, 314. So it has eight syllables, three in line one, one in line two and four in line three. So this is My First piku…
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Battle Cries

JUN GUL DRUMS BEAT A RITH UM CHAN TING VOY SES LOUD AND CLEAR HUFFS AND GRUNTS AND FEAR SOME STAN SES WAR TRIBE MAR CHEZ EVER NEAR RARRR RARRR ROAR RING FROM THE LIVE LEA CROWD THUN DRUSS ECK OH ALL A ROUND JUN GUL DRUMS BEAT A RITH UM CHAN TING VOY SES…
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Letters To The Universe… The It’s All Natural Edition

Dear The Weather, Hello! What are you up to? Last week, you were cracking the flags with your rather extreme (if I may say so!) early heatwave, yet this week you are letting frost cover the ground. I had to wait for my car to de-ice before driving the other morning, which wasn’t a problem…
