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Leading Toward Significance In Free Verse
Poem A Day #12 is to be written in Free Verse. The word prompt is ‘echo’. Free Verse is: From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/free-verse and https://literarydevices.net/free-verse/: “Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Animal, Baby, Chimp, Civil, Closet, Cognitive Revolution, Culture, Early History, East Africa, Free Verse, Games, Great, Handprint, Hominid, Homo Sapiens, Human, Lead, Mankind, Memory, Milkwood, Mother, Mystery, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Science, Secret, Separated, Signature, Significance, Skeleton, Thread, Time, Uncivil, Vers Libre
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First Principles: National Defense Is A Cardinal Duty of All Statesmen
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815) How has the Left Wing of the Democratic Party missed this essential facet of running a government? For a nation to be viable, it must … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardinal, Duty, First Principles, John Adams, National Defense, Statesman
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Kyrielle of Empowerment
The Milkwood Poem A Day #10 is the Kyrielle. The word prompt for day 10 is ‘element’. “Kyrielle is a French form inspired by a Christian devotional tradition, the Kyrie.” “Like that call-and-response liturgical form, the kyrielle poem has a … Continue reading
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Tagged Calamity, Coup, Desparation, Effort, Element, Empower, Famine, Finest Hour, Four Horsemen, France, God's Plan, God's Will, Grumble, Humanity, Hunger, Kyrie, Kyrielle, Liturgical, Malnourishment, New Life, Overcome, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Quatrain, Rebuild, Rubble, Starve, Trouble, War
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Curtain-Fall Triversen
Poem of the Day #9 is the Triversen form. From https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/triversen/: “The Triversen, (triple verse sentence), is a sentence broken into three lines. It has also been referred to as a “verset”, a surge of language in one breath.” “The … Continue reading
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Tagged Alarm, Call, Curtain-Fall, Dance, Dancer, Dancing, Day, Dream, He, Imposition, Love, Memory, Milkwood, Poeetry, Poem, Pushed Away, Recall, She, Shoes, Show, Think, Times, Together, Triversen, Unfair, Walked Away, Wash Away, Whim, William Carlos Williams
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First Principles: American Colonies Had Long Been Stopped From Abolishing Slavery Or Even Limiting It By Great Britain
“…. (A) disposition to abolish slavery prevails in North America, that many of Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and that even the Virginia Assembly have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolish, Benjamin Franklin, Disposition, First Principles, King, Law, Liberty, North America, Pennsylvania, Petition, Repeal, Slavery, Slaves, Virginia
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Thought For the Day: Laughter and Sleep Are the Best Cures For Everything
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” – Irish Proverb
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Tagged Anything, Best, Cure, Good, Irish Proverb, Laugh, Long, Sleep, Thought For the Day
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Valentine’s Way Tanka
It’s Valentine’s Day.. so.. Happy Valentine’s Day to anyone out there reading these attempts at poetry formats. The next format is said to be the short song origin of the Haiku. The Tanka is Poem of the Day #8 format … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreams, Face, Milkwood, Morn, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Tanka, Valentine's Day, Way
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Valentine’s Day Villanelle
Milkwood’s Poem A Day #7 is at best very difficult. The form is the Villanelle. The word prompt is ‘tide’. The villanelle consists of: “19 lines. Two rhymes. Two lines that repeat. Six stanzas – five are three lines each … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Best Friend, Cruel, Defend, Dinner, End, God, Knows, Light, Man, Milkwood, Movie, Peace, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Spoof, Television, Think, Tide, Told, Valentine's Day, Villanelle
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Thought For the Day: We Have A Moral Responsibility To Protect God’s Creation For Generations To come
“We have a moral responsibility to protect God’s creation for generations to come.“ – Nancy Pelosi Precisely, Ms. Pelosi.. stop right at that juncture and you couldn’t be more right. Which is why Nicki Haley responded what immediately came to … Continue reading
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Tagged Generations, God's Creation, Humanity, Moral, Nancy Pelosi, Nicki Haley, Protect, Reponsibility, Thought For the Day, Touche, We
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