When I received THIS wordy postcard, I checked, as I usually do, to find out how many other examples were for sale on eBay. Hoo boy, as they say in Paris. There were at that moment 1183 postcards featuring the Legend of Spanish Moss, at prices ranging from low to exorbitant. There was aContinue reading “Spanish Moss: Legendary Legends”
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About This Wall of Yours
Okay, M. Bergeret, you’ve got me. Explain the joke. Not long ago, I added to my inventory a collection described as an assortment of postcards roughly 120 years old, based primarily on French silent movies: mainly comedies. Among these, among scenes from a Dutch documentary of the 1950s and a German drinking songContinue reading “About This Wall of Yours”
Posted Poetry
It has been a little while since we considered the art of postcard poetry. New examples come to hand all the time at Blogsy’s Postcard Bin, and I want to be sure you don’t miss any of the amazing discoveries which…I’ve told you about making faces like that. The art of verse forContinue reading “Posted Poetry”
No Crime to Rhyme
I thought we might conclude our consideration of postcard poetry with the ever-popular miscellaneous section. There are always a few postcards which don’t fit in other categories (at least not in my inventory) but which are too good to allow to slide by. The item at the top of this column is, ofContinue reading “No Crime to Rhyme”
Just Thinking of You
I am not here to mock those who have never gotten into the habit of writing verse. I am here merely to enlighten those who are unaware of the mental processes of versifiers. See, to the person who does not write poetry, the art is something rarefied and elite, an outlet for people whoContinue reading “Just Thinking of You”
Even Verse
I had not intended to spend a week considering postcard verse. As far as I know, no poets who got their start ever won a Nobel prize for Literature, and there’s a reason for that. Still, it served its purpose: many the postcard was sent where we would now send a greeting card,Continue reading “Even Verse”
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