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Australian Birds: CORRECTION (not a Straw-necked Ibis; an Australian White Ibis: Threskiornis molucca)

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It's amazing what comes wandering up to the back fence. These guys were quite happily foraging for insects until I started taking photographs, and then they became rapidly shy.

The Cinquain Challenge: Form 5—The Butterfly Cinquain

This week, we’re looking at a fifth type of cinquain—the Butterfly Cinquain. Again, it uses either a Crapsey Form 1 or a Crapsey Form 2 as a base. For those of you who are new to this series, Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet who was inspired by the rules of Japanese poetry to create her own poetical form, the cinquain. A cinquain is a five-line poem that has a set number of syllables (or word types) per line. Sometimes the title of a cinquain acts as a sixth line. The fifth type of cinquain we’ll look at is called a Butterfly Cinquain. The Butterfly Cinquain is a nine-line verse with two syllables in the first line, four in the second, six in the third, eight in the fourth, two in the fifth, eight in the sixth, six in the seventh, four in the eighth and two in the ninth line . If you look at this verse’s shape on the page, you will see why it’s called a butterfly cinquain. Here’s an example, inspired by the evil nature of trolls: Troll man Beneath th

Progress Report: Week 2, April 2014

I spent the week sick in bed, bar the little bit of writing done last Sunday, and a very brief hour on Wednesday. This week, I hope to do better, but with study and an assignment to catch up on, things aren’t looking too hopeful. Fingers crossed, hey? Overview New words produced: 3,060 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 7 (for inclusion into a longer work) Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 1 Tasks Annual 13: Added 181 words Annual 14: Added 1,713 words Publishing Tasks Created 1 blog post for this blog New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: Poem340—Troll Man: about a troll Poem341—Fairy Lights: about fairies; ShortStory255—The Shenzi’s Stain: a piece of flash science fiction about a space wreck ShortStory256—To Rescue a King: a piece of flash fantasy fiction about rescuing a king ShortStory257—The Dead do not Live: a piece of flash horror f