Archives for September 2011

Some people never find love, others don’t want it but for most it is a thing to be sought after and worked on. A friend posted this quote on Facebook;

“So don’t fall in love, there’s just too much to lose. If you’re given the choice then I’m begging you please to walk away, walk away”.

It made me sit up. Maybe they like the source of the quote but I found the sentiment so wrong that I felt compelled to respond.

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For my writing tutorial this week we have been asked to write a ‘found poem’ from a one page recipe we were given last week. The rules were:

• You must use only words from the recipe page, except,
• you can add small words like; the, and, when, a to make sense of the poem and
• you can change the tense or the form of words, e.g. make singular plural, and
• you can reuse words as often as you like.

Here’s what I came up with from my recipe for Peach Pocket Dumplings.

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