ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Are you looing for a house painter H ?





Bobbo

1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never use a long word when a short one will do.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.


George Orwell.

I paint over paintings too I once painted a house and have painted over it twice since then,
but you need to live a long time to do much of that sort of thing.

TTFN

I paint my own house Bob. I'm clever like that I've even been known to use a hammer, putty, hang a door, patch a water tank, seal slate floors, and last week I even split some wood. I'll never walk again but I did it!

I once bought some second hand paint. It was in the shape of a house.

Steven Wright

ok ok ok but tell me what you used all that stuff for.


I once built a dividing wall by the instructions in a readers digest and when I got the builder to come to do the cupboards he was amazed that I had al the corners so precise. He said we do not worry about things like that the cornice will cover them up anyway ???


Glad I only got him to do the cupboards.


Bob

Weeell, I used paint to paint, a hammer to hammer, putty for puttying, hung a door in a door frame and split wood with a wood splitter.

WOW Five out of five ! well done.


you are as sharp as a tack today ( oh a tack is a tiny little nail )

Since poetry is, by comparison to prose, a quintessentially lyric enterprise, how much more will it turn on indirection.
It is what it suggests and doesn't ever quite say that makes a poem any good.
Poetry is the art of saying it in other words.

Mark Tredinnick