Showing posts with label instrument. Show all posts
Showing posts with label instrument. Show all posts

10.02.2020

notes and chords

If language is our instrument, the words and phrases are our notes and chords.

[This cannot be a new thought.]

5.17.2018

finer points

The members of the workshop were much too comfortable using power tools, when precision instruments were called for.

12.14.2010

poet's song

Folk singers: poets who can play the guitar.

6.23.2010

vuvuzelas

People may have a differing opinions about these simple instruments that turn a football stadium into a hive of sound, but there is hardly a word more fun to say than ‘vuvuzelas’, and hardly a better one-word poem during this time of the FIFA World Cup.

8.28.2008

intrument of intimacy

After the advent of email, only the poem was left to replace the letter as an instrument of intimate communication.