A friend of mine who lost her husband a few years ago was stunned when a cousin asked her how she found on line dating.Anyone less likely to do that would be hard to find.Anyway how do we describe ourselves? Too intelligent…no thanks.Bad eyesight… can be an advantage.Crippled with arthriitis… enjoy a creative adventurer/ in your bed…
Frightened of dentists.. date a doctor.. and vice versa or just vice.Actually one really important thing is smell.My husband smielled like honey.. that was nice.Scientists believe it may be the most important sense and I can understand why… tough sleeping next to a bad smelling man.An ugly man..ok shut your eyes.. you get my point?Too large………………buy a bigger bed…But kindness and a nice smell will take a man a long way though maybe with somebody else , not you or me and in some ways it’s nice to be in joyful solitude just a cat and a few novels and a bottle full of old buttons.
A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention. The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto (from Old Provençal sonet a little poem, from son song, from Latin sonus a sound).Wikipedia
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When you are writing you will be using whatever you have stocked your mind with.So reading poetry and fiction and other writing is crucial.and of course your life and what has happened to you or your society will be present in your writing..I find keeping a l journal of things which make an emotional impact on me is helpful.Read what you like but not rubbish.Please.
Starting with the sonnet form
The first line of Gray’s Elegy has the right meter.for a sonnet.
“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.”
So you must write a line to that music:
The clouds rise up and race across the sky
for example; then you need a second line.I find these two lines must be interesting.emotional ,deep or symbolic .After that the structure determines to some extent how you can develop your poem…Fourteen lines according to the pattern below.
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Sonnets are usually serious but it is possible to write a humorous one.Historically it was the metaphysical poets who wrote this way about love and death…John Donne is one of them..He wrote the famous poem
The second article is a fascinating interview with Strawson in which he compares Hitler to an earthquake]
“If we take the term ‘morally worse’ as purely descriptive, denoting people whose characters generally appear to be morally worse than average, and if we restrict our attention to those who have had some non-negligible degree of education, we find that people who have religious convictions are on the whole morally worse than people who lack the
Galen Strawson …his life and work with some radio discussions
‘We find that people who have religious convictions are on the whole morally worse than people who lack them,’ Galen Strawson writes in the LRB of 2 June. I thought this was fairly startling and looked forward to seeing letters in the next issue challenging Strawson and asking for some evidence. But no: for readers of the LRB, Professor Strawson’s view must be fairly uncontroversial, because there were no letters on the subject in the following issue. By a happy coincidence, I have been sent a complimentary copy of the New Statesman in which Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi, quotes some American research which seems to show that religious people – defined as those who regularly attend a place of worship – are more likely to behave in virtuous ways than non-religious people. What, I wonder, would constitute evidence one way or the other? Some parts of Galen Strawson’s review seem to suggest that religious belief on the part of educated people is in itself evidence of moral deficiency. That looks suspiciously like rigging the scales.
Mass lightning bolts light up night skies by the Daggett airport from monsoon storms passing over the high deserts early Wednesday, north of Barstow, California July 1, 2015. Picture taken using long exposure. REUTERS/Gene Blevins – RTX1ILBY
Sometimes we get struck by lightning and sometimes we are attacked by a human being.But beware.I have a good friend, a woman,who looks quite slight.A man attempted to assault her some years back.What did she do?She nearly strangled him… and he begged for mercy.Sp beware of slight frail women.. with adrenalin high they might kill you should you attack them.It’s a natural phenomenon,like a storm
Lightning strikes near the town of Searchlight, Nevada as the first storm of the season passes through the western deserts of the United States in the early hours of June 8, 2006. (REUTERS/Gene Blevins)
How my heart sings 