Minutes from meeting on 27 th JAN 2010

Present: Cathy, Mary, Wendy, David, Terry, Helene, Mandy, Jo, Melissa, Vala, Robyn.

Brags:
Thin on the ground. Cathy's grandson offered a place at Wgong Uni. Good on 'im. Helene says there was an email from David C. He had his knees operated on. No one envies him.

Word of the Day:
Melissa offered 'succulent', cacti or similar.
Helene - 'abacus', counting frame. Also 'rusticate', to go to the country, or to live in such.
David R: Read out a poem called 'The Ether' re David G's knees. Hoping David will do amazing things with his new knees. Mmm? The mind boggles. Mine does, anyway. David R's word - 'dichotomy', a sharply defined division into two parts.
Mandy: 'heirophant'- one who shows or reveals sacred things - usually a minister.
Wendy: 'frangible' - capable of being broken or brittle.
Robyn: 'debauchery' - seduction from duty etc, habitual intemperence.
Terry: 'deleterious' - harmful to the mind or body.
Mary: 'beatific' - possessing or imparting a blissful state.
Jo: offered information on clubs, or contests, no word today.

Homework read out Work to do with numbers:

Melissa: 'How Three Becomes One' - a treatise on the desirability of having more than one sexual experience. Most enlightening. Looking for the perfect sexual partner. Mmm. Left this writer wondering what I've missed, or did I? I was intrigued about the glowing blond man we others have never met. (Melissa did so say that!)
Helene: 'No. 7' poem. Obsession with the number. Life ends with obsession. i.e. it never goes away.
Cathy: 'Numbers': a poem. A lot of 'things' having to do with numbers. How we can't do without them. Cathy has been very busy in her life all because of numbers. For some reason at this juncture, Robyn said that 'zero' has a place in rhyming poetry. ROBYN!
According to my notes on to:
David: Had a bit of decision-making in his entry, of course a poem. He's 'as clean as a virgin' he writes. Good poem, how could it be anything else. Wishful thinking about the virgin bit, David. Or, 'in your dreams'.
Vala: Poem 'Numbers of our Soul'. From childhood to ? Education, work, marriage, etc. connected with numbers, how you don't necessarily remember your own important numbers, i.e.mobile, home phone etc. good.
Mandy: 'Numbers that Rule Us' - poem. Counting small things, sees the activity as confronting but does suggest she is a bit peculiar (she does, not me). Mmm
Robyn: Again. Told about the cost of an upcoming book printing - ROBYN! - then read 'Numbers'. Robyn looked at numbers as if they were really alive and were members of an army. Read genealogy - importance of that pesky number 9. When Robyn's right, she's right, and believe me, it reads like she was all wrong today but her poem was unusual and clever. How she fit that in with 'zero' I don't know.
Terry: 'Numbers' - Do numbers rule your life? Poem. Mmm. He makes up his mind - they might, but he isn't going to worry about it anyway. Thanks Terry, what about the rest of us staring at you waiting for reality to kick in?
Mary: 'Blowing My Own Trumpet' - A sea full of boats. Watchers - she had a cruise of views of million-dollar houses. How rude people spoil a lovely day. Just ignore them Mary, they're everwhere.
Jo: Read '2B or not 2B'Surprised that the rest got it. Performance poem only. Reads otherwise like fooey.

Exercise: Terry took it, Poetry study - deep and meaningfuls. Metre and all those tactics that are employed in figuring poetic works. Accent was a key word. We discussed at much length if we could discern differences within the same poem, one we had never thought of seeing differences in. We were given a list of words where we had to rhyme as many as we could, paying attention to accent. An ably-presented and well-studied work by Terry, not a surprise at that. Thank you.

Melissa set next week's homework by passing around a box of fortune cookies and now we have to write about the message on our cookie and it's got something to do with 'between the sheets'. More sex from Melissa. Since she came back from America. What's there Melissa? Let us into the secret.
Until next Wednesday, see you all between the sheets (of paper, rudies)
Jo

Next week's roster. Facilitator is Cath, Exercise by Wendy Homework by Vala