Comic Verse 1 - Poetry Smurf
for Harley ©Jeff Guess 2017
viii. Signs and Wonders - Bricks
Bricks early 15c and from Old French briche probably from a Germanic source akin to Middle Dutch bricke ‘a tile,’ ’a broken piece’. Brick...
vii. Signs and Wonders - Breakfast
Breakfast Mid-15c., from break (v.) + fast (n.). The verb is recorded from 1670s. The Spanish almuerzo ‘lunch,’ but formerly and still...
3.The Town I Loved So Well: Images of Gawler SA. 'Country Show'
III COUNTRY SHOW Wind flings the microphone man's voice to the fields and the river's edge where it seeds in green nettles half sunk a...
vi. Signs and Wonders - Marmalade & Mindfulness
Mindfulness Mid-14c from mind + -ful. From Old English gemynd meaning ‘memory or thought’, of ancient Germanic origin. Tonight it is...
v. Signs and Wonders - Rubbish Day
Rubbish c.1400, from Anglo-French rubouses related to rubble. The verb sense to criticize first attested 1953 in Australian slang. NAWMA*...
