Sometimes my poems are cluttered with adverbs and adjectives,
subjunctive clauses, desultory detours like this front yard is overgrown
with weeds. When my poems gets like this. when you can’t see the structure,
it is time to bring out the whipper snipper. Time for a trim.
John Malone 
Beautiful analogy, John!
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thank you, Shaily; the house is just down the next street; I went for a desultory walk and there it was, in all its overgrownness š
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mow it down and start over!)
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yes, I like that; not a gentle trim but a thorough mow —
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LOL. Yes, it can turn into a wordy jungle. Chopping away is the only thing to do. Very clever, John. š
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hahaha; love ‘wordy jungle’ ; thanks Terveen; I walked past that place and saw the analogy immediately š
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I though I was Jack Kerouac when I started writing, and would never touch a word. Now it’s edit, edit, edit.
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your poems are all the stronger — and stranger — for it š
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Thanks John!!
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This is when you need a word cutter š
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haha; so true, Ulle: I wonder if Bunnings [ Aussie hardware store] has any on special š
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Pare it down and then pare it again.
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your skimpy narratives certainly don’t require it; thanks tnkerr
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Please post a picture of a “Whipper Snipper”. HA
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better to Google the name and see the different varieties that pop up š
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I like gardens and poetry lush!
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Hahah, we call it a weed whacker here, but it amounts to the same thing. Once it does its job, what remains is much more pleasing.
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true; but this particular yard looks beyond redemption —
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It needs a bulldozer then!
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hahahah
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