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Short Form Poetry Workshop: Zejel Duel of Recitation
As is known, from time to time, I attend a long running short form poetry workshop. I went back there tonight and learned of a poetic form called the Zejel. What is a Zejel? • Spanish poetic form likely an … Continue reading
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Tagged ACcompany, Beauty, Belong, Doubt, Drunkard, Duel, Flow, JoinIn, Lebanese, Lout, Magic, Means, Metric, Midsong, Poetic Duel, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Proper Poetry, Quatrain, Recitation, Rendition, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Sing, Song, Stanza, Tambourine, Tercet, The People, Troubadour, Two Poets, Zejel
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Of Love and Fear
No slackers here for Day 5 of Na/GloPoWriMo. Here are the goals: “(1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Anxious, Calmness, Choice, Confidence, Devoice, Explore, Fear, Find, Give, Hobson's Choice, Life, Limit, Love, Method of Choice, Na/GloPoWriMo, Patois, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Quatrain, Refine, Refrain, Rejoice, Stanza, Step, Stillness, Strip, Tercet, Villanelle, Voice
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Late Night Nachos Pantoum
Milkwood’s Poem A Day #15 is the Pantoum. The word prompt for this form is ‘swan song’. The Pantoum form is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantoum “The pantoum is a form of poetry similar to a villanelle in that there are repeating lines throughout … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacon, Bake, Cheese, Clock, Health, Late Night, Meat, Microwave, Milkwood, Nacho, Photograph, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Quatrain, Simmer, Sublime, Swan Song, Three Cheses, Will Power
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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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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – FitzGerald
Born on May 18, 1048 in Nishapur, Iran, the Persian mathematician, astronomer and sometime poet, Omar Khayyam, passed away on December 4, 1131. But not before his work with cubic equations and the composition of a calendar more accurate than … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward FitzGerald, Harvard Classics, Iran, Omar Khayyam, Persia, Poetry, Pre-Raphaelitte, Quatrain, Rubaiyat, Skepticism, Suffism, Whitley Stokes
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Shadow Poetry
As a second Rispetto, I used a different form common to this type of poetry. From it came a brief look at the poetry itself: Shadow Poetry by Michael Romani The shadow poetry of old Tuscany Delights in the night … Continue reading
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Tagged Italy, Photograph, Quatrain, Rhymes, Rispetto, Second Life, Short Form Poetry, Tuscany
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