Smells like Poetry!

I found this poem just now @ http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-452.html as I was pondering how to insert some smells into my poem about the Murray River.

I think it is quite clever!

My Nostril Smells Awesome

My nostril smells awesome inside of my nose,
a bit like the bloom of a newly-picked rose.
It started this morning--I couldn't say why--
and all day it's smelled like banana cream pie.

It has the aroma of freshly-baked bread
with hot melted butter and blackberry spread,
and maybe the breeze of a warm afternoon,
that follows a thunderstorm early in June.

It smells like a pine forest, right by a lake,
and chocolate chip cookies my mom likes to bake,
like kettle corn pop-popping over a fire,
and laundry, the moment it's out of the dryer.

My nostril smells awesome, so I have a plan
to sit and enjoy it as long as I can.
Don't ask how it happened; I really can't say.
Perhaps it's my finger that's smelling this way.

--Kenn Nesbitt

Copyright © 2009 Kenn Nesbitt
All Rights Reserved

Positive poetry

I've been looking for some positive poetry today from which to source some inspiration for my poetry assignment.

I found the following link which has lots of different poems, haven't read them all as I was just having a quick browse before I go to work.

http://asandboxgreeting.com/sbmisc.html

However I did find one in particular that I like about hands. The music on the site is a bit strange though. :S

http://asandboxgreeting.com/thesehandspm.html

Jennifer Byrne Presents...

Hi there,

I received a link last night from one of my writing lecturers at TAFE who suggested to watch a certain program on the ABC last night. It was called "Jennifer Byrne Presents" and on last night's episode Jennifer talked about "The future of Books."

There were 3 guests on the show and Jennifer interviewed each person on their opinions about whether less paper books are being read due to e-books, Kindles and iPads being used more often lately. They were also asked whether they thought e-books were a good way to get people reading or not.

Here is a link to some of the notes of the show, many other interesting topics were brought up.

http://blogs.abc.net.au/abc_tv/2011/05/future-of-books.html

If you would like to watch last night's episode (Tues 17th May 2011) for yourself, here is the link to watch it on Iview: http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/recent

The show is usually broadcast on ABC1 on the first Tuesday of the month at 10pm.

P.S. Sorry that I haven't posted anything for so long. I didn't even have time to post the rest of my assignments up here from last year (Write Articles for Publication 2)! Although it did get very tiresome as I had to type everything out because I am unable to copy and paste text onto Blogger for some reason! I have now moved from Waikerie to Adelaide so that is one of my reasons for being busy but not the only one.