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    Other F Words: Experiments in Floetry
    Other F Words: Experiments in Floetry
    Other F Words: Experiments in Floetry
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    Other F Words: Experiments in Floetry

    By Denn Thome

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    In Other F Words: Experiments in Floetry, Denn Thome considers why just one F word has become the standard of what the family of F words means. Latin and other ancient languages did not die out because of misuse. They faltered when they could no longer explain the world emerging about them. Yet they laid a language foundation as their legacy. This collection is the redemption of the family of F words. New words, a new meaning, until the F word family emerges from the fray and is acclaimed for its fervent goal to explain what is to come.

    Time changes all and the written word is no exception to that rule. Other F Words: Experiments in Floetry introduces a new F word to the family, Floetry. Floetry bends the norm, as the lines of rhyme flow freely, and then looks to the future as the language vibrantly explains what is to come of the myths of tomorrow.

    In Other F Words, discover that there is great power in other F words as well, as they explore friendship, love, and the world happening around us!

    FELL Some say trees never dance Do not bear fidelity To earthly melodies. Just wait till the blaring winds feast strong With finality awe Test the fainthearteds Faith with fear Then the trees Who cannot dance the winds Fall.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 13, 2014
    ISBN9781491741801
    Other F Words: Experiments in Floetry
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    Denn Thome

    Denn Thome lives in the Monashee Mountains where he writes of things come and gone, of friends and love.

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      Other F Words - Denn Thome

      Copyright © 2014 Denn Thome.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-4179-5 (sc)

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      CONTENTS

      A Path To Floetry

      Friendship

      Faith

      Forests

      Flash

      Forgiveness

      Freaking

      Fervor

      Future

      Fondness

      Flatulence

      Finally

      Far

      Fairness

      Flee

      Fog

      Folky

      Fate

      Farmer

      Failure

      Fairytale

      Acknowledgements

      …THERE ARE RELATIONS IN TIME

      …JUST WHEN YOU THINK IT IS FOREVER

      THERE IT GOES

      LIKE A STRONG WESTERLY

      BLOWING RIGHT THROUGH YOUR SOUL

      WHAT IS, NEVER, EVERMORE…

      Denn Thome

      A PATH TO FLOETRY

      The poor words of the letter F, so many lost to that most well known F word. Before all other words in the letter F family that one F word rules, slides into the most innocent of thoughts, is shortened to respectability, strongly spoken, appears loudly when cried in anger. It has strength no other F word commands; even has it own hand sign, the mystical middle finger, with its sliding scale of intensity.

      Sadly, so many other good F words do not have the power of this one universal F word, as if all other F words have been caught in a minor key of obscurity.

      It was the rules that got the other F words civilized, while that one F word became the forbidden, the most unsociable of powers, a curse, a question, a bold statement when only one word would do and there was no other.

      Songs covertly sing the F words praise, while other F words, perhaps just as powerful, fade in its wake. You must think such a social renegade could be topped, unseated from its throne. Yet when cornered, attacked, it just enters a metamorphosis into other forms, adding more letters or words like What The F, WTF, or a mash up of letters and symbols. That F word is so elastic that social media scream with joy at its new attire until all the other F words shudder in the shock of being again undone.

      We all know how it happened that the F word grew from mating and copulating. In its most dramatic move it co-opted the very spelling of the letter F, so that now ‘eff’ itself has become

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