Getting Up With the Chickens

This morning, when I got up, my husband Eddie said he was going to start calling me Chicky since I always get up with the chickens.  Of course, his idea of getting up with the chickens is getting up any time before 9:30 a.m.  I told him it was fine if he wanted to call me Chicky.  It so happens that I'm reading a really good book right now by Maeve Binchy titled A Week in Winter and the main character in the book is named Chicky.  She is a very strong woman in the book and I would like to be nick-named after a strong woman.

I keep thinking that I will get down to writing some poems, but I haven't done it yet.  For one thing, I've been trying to finish up making Christmas presents.  I just don't seem to have the time to get started, but I need to carve out a little time every day to do some writing.  I don't know where my inspiration has gone, but I'm going to start writing some found poems in the way that I talked about in my last post.  One of the links I posted yesterday has something cool called Word Mover.  This looks like a great tool to use when constructing a found poem, or any poem really.  It's almost like using the magnetic poetry except you are limiting by the writings that are in the tool.  You could get your magazine or newspaper article, or whatever you are using for your found poem, in front of you, highlight the words or phrases you want to use and then type them into the word mover.  You can move them around in any way  you want to make your poem.  I think I'm going to try that with an article I found that I've already underlined the words I want to use.  I'll report back on how it went.

Update on Word Mover:

I just tried to use Word Mover to construct a found poem and I'm not really excited about it.  For one thing, you have word blocks and once you type in your word and go to the next word block, I couldn't figure out a way to go back and edit it the original word block in any way.  Also, there is not enough room to write a long poem, just a very short one.  So, for me, I think I will just use my word processing program to put in my words and phrases from articles and then move them around.  It's much easier.