Poem from Scratch
Punch it like a time clock
Time it like boiled eggs
Mix yesterday’s dream
with a sleight of hand
Cross your T’s
and say abracadabra
Pull a rabbit
out of a stranger’s hat
_______Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman
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July 7th, 2023 9:27 am
I do hope you are compiling a book of ars poetica! (I’m serious.)
July 7th, 2023 9:31 am
Oh, good idea! I had to look up what it meant. I do have a lot of those. I called them ditties, as opposed to what I think of as poems, and they keep my oils greased while I’m waiting for those.
July 7th, 2023 3:30 pm
You captured both the mechanical and mercurial aspects very well. Something to ponder when the rabbit refuses to come out of a hat.
July 7th, 2023 6:44 pm
Abracadabra ~~ I hereby proclaim you quite brilliant. A ditty specialist.
July 7th, 2023 10:11 pm
It does seem sometimes I am pulling rabbits out of strangers’ hats…perhaps even strangers’ dreams! Well said!!!
July 7th, 2023 11:22 pm
I call them ditties also. I think the ditty can be an ‘ars poetica’ but few are. ‘Ars poetica’ definitely doesn’t have to be a ditty for what I say.
I don’t boil eggs anymore, I cook them in the microwave quickly. 76 seconds at 60% power. If you like runny egg yolks don’t break and stir it of course and adjust the cooking parameters a bit.
Always cover them with a piece of paper towel because before a minute is up they will POP once or more, not badly though.
I’m into square eggs now for making egg sandwiches, or egg plus, ham, cheese, etc. Use a square little piece of pottery or ceramic that is microwaveable. Really good for sandwiches. Spray the bottom and up the side a bit with vegetable oil.
Mrs. Jim didn’t eat any of my concoction. She doesn’t like cottage cheese or beans very much, and the crab salad was heavily Cajun hot flavored.
I cook more than Mrs. Jim now, I cook simple and easy on dirty cooking dishes. Like I did in my bachelor, freedom, days before we married.
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July 9th, 2023 10:06 am
I would like to add this poem to my series of “poetry lesson #_” but I would ne copying. 🙂
July 11th, 2023 9:19 am
Wish I could do all that
July 11th, 2023 3:26 pm
Voila! You did it!
July 12th, 2023 7:57 am
Wow …. and I must say it happens to me too sometimes pulling rabbits out of asyranger’s hat
July 15th, 2023 8:08 pm
I love mixing yesterday’s dream with a sleight of hand.