Salt Cellar
Knee socks and folded paper
a playground at recess
a circle, a caucus, a coven
magic fingers and bated breath
favorite numbers whispered, counted
secret messages released in the air
fly off to the future, wait for us
a circle, a caucus, a coven
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Prompt via The Wombwell Rainbow
Art by Kerfe Roig – Kerfe’s image reminded me of the paper game, called Salt Cellar, we used to play in middle school.
So, it’s finally happened to me – I’ve lost the option to write in Classic Editor. I suppose I’ll have to hunt down a Block Editor tutorial since it appears I can no longer write in html mode to format my poems the way I want them. Grrrr. If anyone can point me to a tutorial or give tips please leave a comment. Have a great weekend!
Charlotte Hamrick 
Love the spell of “a circle, a caucus, a coven”! As to your Classic Editor issue, I had to learn how to reformat my poems so that when I copied and pasted them in, they’d look exactly like I wanted. WordPress made me a short video to show me how to do this. I can send it to you if it helps (let me know). If you’re composing right on the site, that’s a different matter. I’ve found the WordPress staff very helpful and the chat function a useful and quick way to get reoriented. Good luck!
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Thanks, Lynne! I do copy & paste my poems into WordPress. I always pasted in the hymn mode so I could manipulate the text like I wanted. Otherwise the text would be double-spaced, like this one. Anyway, I would like the tutorial. Please email to charlotteham504 at gmail whenever it’s convenient for you. Thanks!
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HTML not hymn. Sheesh, autocorrect!
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Just emailed it, hope it helps 🤞
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It did. So I have discovered that the posting options on my laptop are not on my iPad app. That’s my problem. I always write on my pad. This morning I logged on the laptop and it was a totally different posting experience. It’s crazy. I guess I’ll have to write on the laptop from now on and that aggravates me. I’m going to contact support. Thanks, Lynne!
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Yaay! And not Yaay – I’m guessing this wasn’t an issue before (the old version)? Sometimes newer isn’t better, the old dog was enjoying his nap Lol! Good luck
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Right. Well, I have my new poem in draft that I posted on the laptop. Now I’m going back to the pad to finish. Lol!! Crazy!
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Lovely again.
As for the line spacing, hold down CTRL and SHIFT and hit ENTER to go to the next line. Good luck.
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Thanks, Selma. I remember that move from my laptop days. I write on my iPad and I have discovered the app does not have all the options of the web version. So, that’s my problem.
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Yes. On iPad it’s different. Can’t help you there, then. Be well. Keep going as best you can. We are here. xoxo
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Reblogged this on The Wombwell Rainbow.
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A lovely memory transfer.
For my poems I use the block called Verse. You may need to search for it a little but it should be there. It posts everything how I prepare it in Word.
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I thought I already answered you but looks like not. I tried using verse but it still double-spaced and added in italic font. Boo!
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Sorry about that. 😦 Every blog theme acts as it pleases. I remember having big problems with my poems on a previous blog too.
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I love this magical chant.
I still don’t understand block editor at all. I copy and paste my poems in “paragraph” and copy and paste images in paragraph, or download them in “image”. It works for what I need to do. I dislike the poetry blocks because it cuts off part of the poems when I look at things in my reader. You have to go to the site itself to see it properly. So I don’t always go and read the poem because of the extra work it takes. Also, aesthetically, I dislike that grey block. I’m sure that posts are skipped because of this feature. I complained to WordPress about it, but they don’t care. (K)
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Ugh, it’s all so convoluted now. I can’t even remember all the things I’ve tried. It seems like I’ll have to start writing on the laptop to have any kind of control. It’s pretty short-sided of WP not to make it more user friendly for pad users.
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Short-sighted…..
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As I said to them, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But I guess they have to change things so they can justify their jobs.
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As to spacing, I type the original with shift enter for single spacing and it seems to work for copy and paste.
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