After hours of wandering, hopelessly lost in the forest’s early morning, he thought it best to rest. For the marked time, he built up a fire—small, but a great reprieve in the vast cold. Thereby he sat, holding the hands well nigh in the flames. After [...]
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In winter
Posted in life, spirituality, winter, wordcraft, writing, yule, yuletide, tagged life winter yule yuletide wordcraft writing thoughts sp on 25 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s winter now, but all of my thoughts are on the coming spring.
After stones and stones have fallen, the snow will rise up to the earth shadowing clouds—whence it came. Thereafter will life too rise up from its seasonal slumber. There will be new mothers and children. There will be deep greens and pink squinting [...]
The Grogglemeds
Posted in humor, math, maths, poetry, riddle, riddles, wordcraft, tagged grogglemed grogglemeds math maths riddle riddles on 20 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another riddle. What are the grogglemeds?
into greens and reds
tumbled two small grogglemeds
they groggled and groogled
and did what grogglemeds usually do
then there were three more
that came after the two
and soon five and seven, eleven and thirteen,
from every hill in the land were grogglemeds seen
a great din arose, for the grogglemed is a noisy thing
as each and [...]
Frog Soup
Posted in deutsch, german, math, poetry, riddle, riddles, rätsel, svenska, swedish, såll, wordcraft, tagged riddle math maths riddles poetry swedish german english on 20 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a riddle. Can you figure it out? (Hint: find the pattern referenced).
(WordPress has some frustrating formatting.. the indentations that i originally had were lost and i can’t seem to make them show up here. All well)
Einmal gab es keinen Frosch
then hopped the frog into life.
Next Elin—the daughter of spring,
—med körsbär och en gyllene ring,
gathered [...]
