Record of meeting 11 May 2016

 More May poetry

The writers

 Juan, Marg, Helene, Terry, Cath, Roslyn, Cath, Di with a quick visit from David C

The words of the day

Garrulous – talkative

Magnitude – importance

Disintegrate – fall apart

Faux pas – a social blunder

Specious – plausible

Nexus – a tie, connection, link

Contrariwise – on the other hand

Pontificate – express opinion in a pompous and dogmatic way

Writing from words of the day

The writers did not disintegrate with the magnitude of the task and created a range of stories as follows; Roslyn – The meeting, Marg – Heard everywhere, Cath – It had begun, Di – People in power, Helene – Political characters, Terry – an argument and Juan – Love and hope.

Reading of homework

Using the bush theme the writers read out the following homework poems and stories - Marg - The kangaroo and billy tea, Roslyn – Blue mountains 5 short poems, Juan – A dry country, Terry – A trip away, Helene – Bush life and Di – A wobbly walk way.

Readings

Terry read out Clancy @the overflow based on the poem Clancy of the Overflow by A B Patterson.

Roslyn read out “The noble old tree” written by Juan

Haiku poetry

We explored Haiku poetry a traditional form of Japanese poetry consisting of 3 lines. The first and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme. This exercise kept us quiet working hard and counting.

Homework

A poem about a Faux pas