I make no claims to being "a poet", but I have fun trying the genre sometimes, anyway! Here's one of my short ones that I like:
The Alternative
The snow rests patiently on the fencepost,Waiting either to blow away or to melt.
Then up comes the thirsty horse with rough tongue.
Other Writing of Mine: See my essay, "Depression Personalized: an Attempt to Explain Depression to the Non-depressed" and my fantasy-adventure segment, "The Lesson".
Copyright © Jeanie Ramsey 1998
Resources
A really good textbook (used in the past at the University of Washington, I believe) for developing more effective writing skills (including a very painless study of grammar and punctuation): Combining & Creating; Sentence Combining and Generative Rhetoric. By William L. Stull, from Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, copyright 1983. (paperback)
Links
Writer's Resources:
- Writer's Toolbox-Internet Resources for Writers: A MUST SEE info site for writers of ALL types.
- Crash course on writing documents for the Web: Good info on HTML, etc.
- An interesting collection of writing-related and other links.
- The U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
- The Copyright Website
- Web Guard
- The HTML Writers Guild
- The Georgian Blue Poetry Society: a poetry forum. They run a contest that publishes previously unpublished poets for a $12 submission fee--which includes a sample copy of their anthology. Site posts a Poem of the Day feature.
- Virtual Sample Copy: Online info/sample copy links to a large alphabetized list of sci-fi/fantasy/horror mags for writers interested in these genres.
- Critters Workshop: An online writing critique group for sci-fi/fantasy/horror writers.
- The Writers' Room:A very caring writers support and critique group for all genres.
Writing-Related:
- An interesting essay on Edward Lear's life and his Owl and the Pussycat poem.
- Link to Robert Marcum's homesite: an online writer-friend with some beautiful graphics and examples of his writing.
- Peggy Hu's homesite with samples of her poetry, her thoughts on writing, and more. (Found the copyright links noted above here.)
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Comments? Questions? Email Jeanie "Calico Cat" Ramsey, or contact me with ICQ! My UIN is 948220.
Created July 9, 1997. Last modified February 19, 1998.
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