Adar Aleph vs. Adar Bet Writing Assignment

Write the following words across the top of a page:
Dark Winter Rain Snow
Free–write for two minutes.

Write the following words across the top of a(nother) page:
Light Spring Budding Sun
Free–write for two minutes.

Here were my results:
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Sestina slush in a two–minute puddle
Impossible with a sun–impoverished imagination

Glaciation increased this season
Recreations seized

We retreated to our heated sheets
Sailed vacations on flannel oceans.

Released

Seed pod bursts its
Fur flurry, heavy dandelion
Freed to weed its place
Across our path
halving the distance to Summer.

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We then looked at the Rabbis reasons
for placing Purim where they did.
Beautiful shiur.

Posted March 13, 2003 08:57 PM