Kennings for Blog, Poetry

Words of the outside world. Allusionist 188. Lipread, January 28, 2024. “Visemes can often be humorous, as in the phrase ‘elephant juice’, which when lip-read appears identical to ‘I love you’.” Wiki: Viseme

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Kenning. “A metaphorical compound word or phrase (such as swan-road for ocean) used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry” Miriam-Webster: Kenning

Blog. “A website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, videos, and photographs provided by the writer.” Miriam-Webster: Blog

Kennings to describe a blog:

Public Ponderings

Digital Diary

Passé Platform

Online Ontogenisis

Afterword

Once again, I expected to be able to generate more. I keep thinking of kennings as word usage and forgetting about the metaphorical poetry aspect.

Kennings do not have to alliterate. That was a tangent I went off on my own.

Speaking of poetry, I use labels to warn folks when a post wanders off-topic, e.g. photography, fiction, graphic design. For Saturdays, I usually have fiction or non-fiction. I couldn’t decide which this should be. Hence the poetry label. [State of the Subtitles]

[Honorable Mention! Kennings Contest by Artifact Puzzles, Non-Fiction] Where I heard about kennings and description of what they are.

Onwards!
Katherine

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