Category: Poetry

Official Announcement: I’m as Odd as Franz Kafka

I’ve just completed an online MBTI test. This personality test is based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which you can read about here

My test results classed me as INFP (I=Introverted, N=Intuition, F=Feeling, P=Perception). Being introverted isn’t always easy, but I’m immensely cheered to know with which writers, poets, and playwright I share this personality type.

Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka

George Orwell
J R R Tolkien
C S Lewis
Virginia Woolf
A A Milne
J K Rowling
Franz Kafka
Edward Allan Poe
Neil Gaiman
Ray Bradbury
H P Lovecraft
Sylvia Plath
John Milton
William Blake
Hans Christian Anderson
Homer
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
William Shakespeare

All I can say is, now I have an excuse for writing strange stuff. It’s in my personality!

Many thanks to the ENFJ (E=Extroverted, N=Abstract, F=Feeling, J=Judging) Christy Birmingham for drawing my attention to this test in her post http://poeticparfait.com/2013/11/21/personality-types-are-you-like-nelson-mandela-too/

Tanka #23

bottlenose dolphins
communing underwater
~~~sonic disturbance~~~
oceanic symphony
interrupted by drilling

http://www.aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk/item/1229-dana-petroleum-starts-drilling-exploration-well-in-moray-firth

http://www.dana-petroleum.com/Media-centre/Press-releases/2013/Dana-Petroleum-makes-oil-discovery-in-Moray-Firth/

Tanka #22

magpie

One lonesome magpie
taunting the superstitious
with promised sorrow.
Those who trust old wives’ tales
see our world in black and white.

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Many cultures consider the magpie an omen of bad luck. For those of you unfamiliar with the English traditional nursery rhyme about certain numbers of magpies meaning good or bad luck, you might like to read some full versions of the rhyme here.