Well I struggled on with the work I was trying to do - but the more often I checked - I found I was going nowhere with earning some cents for all the work done. I was beginning to feel that the whole experience was turning into a dismal failure.
Then the most surprising occurrence ...........!!!
A techie friend dropped in for a visit to see how things were going. I admitted that I was failing in reaching anything like all those people earning scads of money on their efforts.
He was thumbing through my doodles - when he exclaimed "This where you belong" I uttered something -"Er, Why?' Then he enlightened me to his full time occupation. He is editor of books at a publishing company. He then went on to say - "I have never felt this warm glow in reading submitted material " "Get going to set this work up and make a book out of it." He then challenged me to do just that.
WHAT ARE MY DOODLES? I had taken common words and using each letter as the letter to begin a line. The written lines overall, explained the word taken, and as he said - "given the word true sense of feeling." This is called ACROSTIC poetry. So now began the journey in another direction - to turn my feeling of failure into a worthwhile project.
He had challenged - so I furthered the challenge by thinking I could find words for the whole alphabet - and so the task was set. The end result : - A book entitled
MAGIC
IN THE
WORD
To date have had some comments from those that have seen some of the pages including a couple of book editors - so I give a few here -- Ingenious - clever - thought provoking - philosophical. Comments also included "a book for teachers and preachers" and " a book for every office reception area" because its a short enjoyable read while waiting . Although a few Name Poems included - there is also some of what friends call my "Brain Dribble" - this where I play with various words in a humorous way - to have some fun and hopefully raise a chuckle from the reader.
So, Dear Reader, there is a bit of the background and I hope you enjoy as much as my critics to date have. They 're looking forward to it being a useful book in many ways as the scope of the words is wide enough that all can enjoy the pleasure and warmth of the words. The challenge was to bring out the true sense and feeling of each word and many said that has been achieved.
A sampling of the words favoured by the critics : -
GRIEF
ANGEL
TEACH
BRAVE
CHOICE
A wee sample: KISS
Kindling inside us is the memory of the
Instantaneous moment our lips met, .........
S...............
S............... (get the idea?)
It has already been said that this book of Acrostic Poetry is a
"rarity" as a search by one critic revealed that only seven (7) books have been
published in this genre since 1951.
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