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Tag Archives: Poetry
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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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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Hunting Himmler – A Found Poem
Milkwood’s Poem A Day #6 is the Found Poem form and has as its word prompt “gravity”. A found poem is quite literally that. Scanning through the written material of others a little snatch of verbiage here and there catch’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allies, Chaos, Checkpoint, Collaborate, Conspiracy, Cruel, Cyanide, Defeat, Destruction, Devil, Disguise, Dr. Wells, Due, Elbe, Escape, Found Poem, German, Henrich Himmler, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Humanity, Identity, Industrial, Justice, Legacy, Mercedes Benz, Mistake, Nazi Germany, Newsreel, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prisoner of War, Prussic Acid, Refugees, Reich, Served, Sinister, Society, Villans
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Parallel Parking Haibun
Poem A Day #5 has the Haibun as it’s form. The word prompt is ‘parallel’. That led to some creative thinking on my part. What does one write about with parallel.. geography or basic driving…. “A Haibun = a prose … Continue reading
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Tagged Blank Spot, Blind Faith, Experience, Faith, Gratitude, Haibun, Haiku, Islands, Journey, Judgment, Lessons, Life, Mainland, Nail, Parallel, Parallel Park, Poem A Day #5, Poetry, Prose Poem, Seams, Strain, Surf, Teen
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Dream Big Ghazal
Poem A Day #4 is to be of the Ghazal poetry form. Ghazals were originally popularized and written by such notables as Rumi and Hafiz of Persia. Through the influence of Goethe (1749–1832), the ghazal became very popular in Germany … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe Ruth, Courage, Daughters, Discourage, Distance, Dream Big, Dreams, Edison, Encourage, Father, Focus, Ghazal, Goethe, Home Run King, Little Girls, Locus, Love, Music, Nighttime, North Star, Nurture, Poem A Day, Poetry, Promise, Right Thing, Rumi, Science, Sing, Sleep, Star
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Couple of Couplets To Get It Right
Poem A Day #3 is the rhyming couplet form. From Wikipedia: “A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet … Continue reading
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Tagged Boy Meets Girl, Caught, Cleave, Close, Couplet, Dance, Danger, Day, Found, Good, Happiness, Joy, Leap, Life, Light, Lost Time, Lovers, Meter, Moon, Night, Oblivioius, One, Page, Photograph, Poem, Poem A Day #3, Poetry, Ran, Regret, Rhyme, Right, Romeo and Juliet, Smile, Stage, Stranger, Swirl, Tight, Time, Together, Two, Whirl, World
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Memory of Fireworks Haiku
I keep stumbling around trying to catch up with this whole Milkwood Poem of a Day event. Mainly, it seems that when bits and pieces are done out of sequence, it confuses me to where to go from there. With … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Behind, Cherish, Chill, Close, Color, End, Eyes, Fade, Fireworks, Gone, Gratitude, Haiku, Heart, Hurt, Japanese, Laughter, Left, Linger, Lost, Love, Memory, Milkwood, One, Other, Past, Path, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Safe, See, Smile, Summertime, Sweet Dream, Understand, Us, Will, Wish
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We Who Would Be Gods
Some folks believe that we stand on the verge of a merger between man, machine and artificial intelligence. They espouse this prerogative as a next step in the evolution of mankind. Intriguing isn’t it? Some easily evident pluses. A … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bequest, Certain, Children, Defeat, Destiny, Discipline, Evolution, Force of Nature, Gods, History, Humanity, Inferior, Integrity, Kill, Lame, Legacy, Machine, Man, Merge, Name, Natural Cause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Remnant, Revolution, Sin, Superior, Third Millenium, Unseat, We
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Fei Chun Acrostic
A group that I am involved in called Fox Rocks meets at a place in Second Life called Milkwood to write poetry together. Currently, we are undergoing a mental exercise of sorts of writing a poem a day of varying … Continue reading
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