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Dove, I think This is for you.

And metallumai pointed me here -- go click daily and help feed the wee critters!

I've put that second link on my "check daily" list -- I should post that sometime. It's ridiculously organised -- I have a folder for each day of the week in my bookmarks, with various websites and webcomics according to what's likely to be updated on any given day.

By the by, I'm not chatting or answering much email today, because a storm of writing (The Sherlock Holmes Fic, LC, an original short story) and a crick in my neck are conspiring to kill my head. But I owe lots of you emails and a couple of you chatses, and I will pay up soon, I promise. :)

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And, because several people have asked...

Grook, as far as I know, is a term coined by Piet Hein, a Danish poet/artist/architect. I assume it's a Danish word, though for all I know it could be made-up. Danes, feel free to advise. :D

As far as I have discerned, they are short, pithy poems, often humorous, with varied meter and foot-and-line structure, concerning human nature and abstract concepts such as art and spirituality. In this sense mine are not purely grooks, because they are often more focused on matters such as children or bananas, but I'm only learning about them; hopefully I'll polish my technique more as time passes. Aun aprendo*, discipulus aeturnus sum**, etc.

Not to say that Piet Hein invented the concept of the grook, as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker are two well-known artists of the short sharp verse, but grook is a good term to use.

* "I am yet learning", which is how Goya signed some of his paintings.
** "An eternal student am I", which was said by some smart Roman bugger.