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Saturday, December 21, 2013

"What"

What is a bad word
does not tell you why or how
nor who when or where

An English language assignment

Alliterations and (made-up) collective nouns. Please help!

A  - anthems of apathy

B  - bastions of bastardy, babble of bitches

C  -coils of confusion

D  - dregs of drudgery

E  - excess of emotion

F  - flights of fancy

G  - gaggle of geese

H  - hints of happiness

I  -

J  - jumps of joy

K  -

L  - lots of love

M  - minutiae of mundanity, mediocrity of the mundane

N  -

O  -

P  -

Q  -

R  -

S  -sacks of sorrow

T  - tales of torture, tales of torment

U  -

V  -

W  -

X  -

Y  -

Z  -

How do I not love thee

how do I not love thee?
let's not bother counting the ways
my mind can't think of sense or rhyme
to show the depth and breadth and height
of how I don't love thee

But if truth be told and heart unlocked
I love thee
I love thee
I love thee

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*Inspired by
XLIII. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..."
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
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