Comments on: Planting sang

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:44:25 +0000

“Eat your mondegreens, Tonym, or you won’t get any dessert!”

“Aw, Mom, do I have to?”

The hagiographers would not list mondegreens among the temptations of St. Antonym.

By: St. Antonym

St. Antonym — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:51:45 +0000

“Someone with more time on their hands than either you or me should start a Creative Misreadings blog.”

That person’s not me, but it’s a religion I’m very sympathetic too.

As you know.

By: robin andrea

robin andrea — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:26:58 +0000

Creative misreadings sounds like such a great idea. It reminds me of mondegreens, which are creative mis-hearings.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:53:42 +0000

Thanks. Yeah, this poem ain’t the best I’ve ever written by a long shot, but I think it has its moments, and the title may be one of them.

Someone with more time on their hands than either you or me should start a Creative Misreadings blog. It would be fun to collect stuff like that.

By: Lorianne

Lorianne — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:54:06 +0000

I love the pun of “planting sang”: so, what sort of song does planting sing?

(For years, I mis-read the title of May Sarton’s Plant Dreaming Deep, picturing a plant that dreamt deeply. I still prefer that visual to the “correct” one of planting one’s dreams in a deep place.)