Some fun with English vocabulary . . .

Photograph courtesy of Brett Jordan, Unsplash

“The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”  Milan Kundera, Ignorance



Courtesy of Inklings Bookstore, Facebook Page; I think it might have originated with Icegate Magazine; and thanks to Anjum Wasim Dar (Poetic Oceans) for bringing this to my attention.

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Animated poem by Maurice Kilwein Guevara. Part of the Poetry Everywhere series produced by the Poetry Foundation in association with docUWM at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Animation by Kristin Vogel.

Sábado feliz a ustedes.

Sonrisa … y poema encendido …

Chaucer Redux . . . or, Middle English at the local pub …


That’s England’s multitalented Bill Bailey

And al was conscience and tendre herte…”

Happy Saturday, Everyone.

Smile . . . and poem on . . .

Early Modern English: Say What?


That’s stand-up comedian, John Branyan …

1186328_637739792911681_1437806561_nBy Jeff Breshlin, this was a winner of the Washington Post Style Invitational.

. . . and wishing no plagues upon your house, just a  . . .

Happy Saturday, Everyone.

Smile . . . and poem on . . .

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