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Ditty
Posted in Blabla, Dadaism, Humor, Literature, Poetry, Words, tagged creative, creativity, meme, One Single Impression on November 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On the road
Posted in Blabla, Dadaism, Humor, Life, Literature, Poetry, tagged fork, knife, spoon on March 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today I found a fork in the road. Three-pronged. Now I’m at a loss which prong to take.
Latter-day variant of an older story
Posted in Bible, Blabla, Dadaism, History, Humor, Life, Literature, Nature, Paradise, Surrealism, tagged Eden, Eve on September 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Can I tempt you with an apple?” Eve said to Eve in the devastated forest, in which neither Adam nor the snake had survived.
This was their last apple, and neither knew what tomorrow would bring.
– Niebla ( © 2008 )
Written in response to Café Writings’ Anniversary Project / Option Two: Can you picture that?
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Hermetic relationships
Posted in Dadaism, Hermeticism, Humor, Imagination, Language, Surrealism, Words, World, tagged 3WW, hermetic, relationships, universe on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
delayed <=> dandelion
edge <=> hedge
focus <=> crocus
3WW LXXXVII words on the left, their relatives in the abstract/plant universe on the right.
– Niebla
Closed
Posted in Blabla, Dadaism, Imagination, Language, Words, tagged concrete poetry on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… aisle, aisha
… bleat
… circuit, connection, communication, convention, convenience,
… door, distance
… enmity, effigy, evil, Easter
… foolishness, foolhardiness, fysh
… ghoul, ghastliness
… home, heaval, hope
… isle,
… jail, June
…
… lemur
… madness, mind, maturity
… neem
… opal
… preety
… quaint, quantum, query, queer
… rust, reunion
… store, stain, static
… weevil
This association thread was instigated by a call for contributions on the word [...]
999
Posted in Blabla, Dadaism, Death, Despair, Eden, Humor, Imagination, Language, Paradise, Poetry, Scardanelli, Words, tagged celebration, dada, Dickinson, Donne, nonsense, Vogelweide on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you, unknown visitors, for 999 visits!
In celebration of which a dada poem derived from reflected and unreflected sources and eclectic syntactic influences:
Tandaraday
Death – do not despair*
Eden ith nair –
Tandaraday –
Where we lay
In days long past
Memory – thou hast
Tandaraday
– Scardanelli
* Having shed pride
Vaguely familiar
Posted in Dadaism, Language, Literature, Poetry, Words, tagged alliteration, Indoeuropean, Indogermanic, Language, Poetry, Sanskrit, Words on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ne
ma
stria,
aún no ma:
stitia hu, bahut
melancholy, ne ma stria.
– Niebla
Note
A fibonacci in what language? Several? None?
The dadaists did this kind of sound stuff; mostly it was meant to sound funny, an effect achieved by an extended sort of alliteration (words sounding similar to something known).
This one plays around with various Indogermanic language minimals and even some [...]
