Abecedarian Notes:
I’m impressed by the new abecedarians on the OpenLab site. In these eleven posts, there are discussions of dreams, of cities, of frustration with world politics, …… Your work with the challenging letters has also proved productive.
If you have not posted, please remember that participation on this board will count as attendance for Thursday, March 3. The discussion board link is at the bottom of this post.
Here are some notes from those who have participated so far:
Ester bravely writes first and gives the reader a keyhole view of a sunny day in New York. Waiting for a subway becomes  wonderfully “xanthic” or yellowish. Dominic explores a bleak society writing, “no more are the times of reason, is such times have ever been present in this world.” Notice how his ideas break through the lines and how he incorporates the words xenocide and zealot. Jeanpierre writes about a character who dreams of being an actor and the frustration of seeking success until the actor receives a mysterious call from Xander (good way to use that X!) Muztahid writes philosophically about maintaining childhood dreams in a world shaped by pain. Notice how he returns to childhood with its imagined “xilinous” beasts but ends with a stoic look at the present. Ashiley gives us a love poem, using those tricky letters in words that often come up in relationships: vexation and yearning, feelings zapped away from the heart. Cesar writes about the challenge of the monotony of unfulfilling jobs and dreaming of vacation time with “xanthic” sunshine.
Alice’s abecedarian creates a world of animals, using the letters in some places to create names including a fish named Joseph, a very big fish, who makes a snack of Henry the Penguin, but they are all endangered by the “xenophobic” poacher. Xiang writes about gaming, using some of the letters to name characters including  a hero named Jinx and on the team Kayle, Morgana, Nunu, and Pantheon. (By the way, the header of our OpenLab class site is taken from below the oculus of the Roman pantheon.) Janet writes of an intense circus of young people who experience joy that is “quixotic” but wicked dialogues sometimes turn sadly xenophobic.
Xinhong writes about one of those rare good days when life serves too much cake but leaves enough time to play the xylophone! Mary writes about friendship, using the challenging letters to talk about quitting, individual uniqueness and values, and howling at the moon.
Here is the link to the Discussion Board-Abecedarian Poems. Post before the end of the day today, March 7:
