ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

....should that be 'multiculturplication'...? What were you saying about language evolving...I think Darwin musta been my Grandpappy....hoo hee haw!

It’s getting rough when you realise your wheelie bin goes out more than you do.

TTFN

where's ya bin?

...I bin in gaol, but I tell everyone I bin on 'oliday......yeah yeah I know...

Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it.

William Zinsser

The smell in my wheelie bin improves in direct ratio to the number of things I keep out of it

Exactly Marty. He's advising us not to stack the writing with dead stuff.

When a man's mind is stretched by a new idea, there's no chance it will shrink back to it's previous dimensions.

Walt Whitman.

Neville Briggs wrote:Exactly Marty. He's advising us not to stack the writing with dead stuff.

I know I have written a silly poem about a dead bird in the past - I try not to write about dead things too often though, it can deaden the mood a little.

Here's some dead things in poetry :

Waffle
Stale language
Clichés
Vagueness
Abstractions and generalisations
Obvious spelling out rather than suggesting
Pomposity
Archaisms
Derivitive/imitative writing
Syntactical clumsiness
Obscurity
Rhythmical bumpiness
Clanging rhyme.

( Matthew Sweeney,John Hartley Williams. )