About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #756895 added July 18, 2012 at 10:21pm Restrictions: None
Typos as Prompts
Do your typos act as prompts? Mine might do, although I never follow up on them.
I tend to rush my typing sometimes, and on flows my typos. I don’t know why my fingers don’t obey my brain, but I guess they, too, have their own way of thinking. Surely, I go back and fix them, but with each typo, a light bulb flashes inside my brain, making me laugh.
If I had the time, I’d come up with at least a small narrative for each booboo. Sometimes I unite the meaning of the word with the typo and a totally different idea emerges. Like the first one on the following list: public pub lice
Here are a few of my typos (I can’t believe I made) that may have been prompts.
* I separated them for meaning. Usually they are without the space in between their parts.
Pub lice public
thing king thinking
prod duction production
Ache ever achiever
sop oiled spoiled
surly surely
hum man human
come mented commented
rec check recheck
rot ration rotation
rock king chair rocking chair
imp lament implement
in flue nice influence
poll it tics politics
If you’re into prompts, I guess anything serves.
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