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Original posting 20 April 2009

Writer's Digest, August 2008, page 76 has a poetry exercise. Let's see.

Choose a subject: Trees in winter, your mother's hands, a pair of old shoes. Work with the idea of twos. Popsicles, airplane tires, your daughter's eyes, or oppositionals: left/right, night/day. Write a simple eight-line poem in couplets using one and two syllable words. Choose a three- or four-syllable "hinge" word to break the pattern, one that will call attention to itself and the subject of your poem.

So the focus is on twos -- pairs, a brace, duet, duo, twins, all those double your trouble, double your fun combinations. And for poetry, they suggest four couplets, eight lines, with some careful choice of syllables. Of course, the story writers might also want to do something with twos.

The key of course is to write, right?

Gemini? That's the Twins up there in the stars, right?