I learned early in life that a thick edition of
Webster's Dictionary offered a new source
of usable words and deeper meanings.
When reading of new words, I feel warmth,
elation, reward and appreciation to those
whose talent keep us up-to-date with a
logical and satisfying means of saying what
our brains want to express within poetry.
Sharing with you a source that gives more
than definition, I offer the often used, but
seldom understood, word, "Pollyanna."
Webster's poetry warms our hearts with
these words, "One having a disposition or
nature characterized by irrepressible
optimism and a tendency to find good in
everything; an overly and often blindly
optimistic person."
The images of the Walt Disney version of Pollyanna is one memory that has lingered throughout my life and yes the dictionary captured it well as you did with this write.
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
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