Battlestar Eclectic
Sarah Torribio and her right brain. Music. Musings. Writing. Style.
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*Music, “Mais Oui,” Electronic composition by Sarah Torribio <<last post >>next post Read more cool quotes HERE
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This is the first definition poem in what I think will be a series of definition poems. This latest series was inspired by learning yesterday about a writer named Ambrose Bierce who is famous for his witty or incisive definitions of words. He spent decades sending them to be printed in newspapers and magazines. Can…
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People say never to use a cliche while you’re writing, but when I’m writing dialogue, I ignore this edict. This is the reason. People talk all kinds of ways. They use idioms, slang, axioms, proverbs. They use terms and phrases and metaphors we’ve culled from the Bible and Shakespeare and rap songs. How people use…
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I’ve been super busy and not using wordpress, let alone the reader. But the first person I looked up was a poet friend, Elancharan Gunasekaran. Take a stroll down his site. He has a gift for saying a lot in a few words. –Sarah Torribio >>last post <<next post
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>last post<<next post The American sentence is a poetic form invented by beat poet Allen Ginsberg. It’s 17 syllables, one sentence, no line breaks. He felt it fit the cadences and colloquialisms of American English, and the country’s unique flavor better than traditional haiku.