Moved to eLekhni

I finally moved to my own space.  Some would say I should have done this a long time ago, but given that I invented procrastination…and besides, every time I decided to move, WordPress.com would come out with something new just to tempt me.
So the new place is called http://eLekhni.com.  This is cue for me to [...]

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Writing poems from prose

I was going to post on something else today.  I probably will, later today.  But after reading all the comments on my previous post on how poetry is nothing but broken prose (and there’s a lot of truth in that),  I thought it would be fun to see if we can convert any of our [...]

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What is a poem, exactly?

It all started when Amitava Kumar posted a poem on his blog. Called “Man Writes Poem” by Jay Leeming, from Dynamite on a China Plate. © The Backwaters Press.
Reading the poem made me start thinking, what exactly is a poem?
I started answering the question in Space Bar’s comment section. So the first paragraph of this [...]

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All about me. In six words.

Vijay tagged me to do a six word memoir, with an optional photo illustration and tag six others.  His own was “Aiming for accuracy in grayscale images” which is quite a good description of his work as a radiologist.
Isn’t this a great tag?  You don’t have to answer long surveys. You don’t even have to [...]

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Mysterious lawn circles

We had the first sunny weekend of the year. Gloriously sunny, with temperature in the 50s and 60s, even going briefly to the high 60s. All right, I am not converting any of this into Celsius, as it is all below 20 deg Celsius, and you are all going to laugh at me. [...]

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