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Short Form Poetry Work Shop – Magic 9
The story is told that a poet was scribbling fast and wrote the word Abracadabra accidentally forgetting the Rs. I don’t know that I’ve seen any proof of this. But, it’s a nice enough story and I’m sticking to it. … Continue reading
Short Form Poetry Workshop: Pleaides – Conserve
The Short Form Poetry Workshop this evening pertained to a New Zealand form of poetry called a Pleiades. What is a Pleiades? • Invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. • a single seven-line stanza. • Only … Continue reading
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Tagged Balanced, Common Sense, Conserve, Pleaides, Poem, Reason, Short Form Poetry, Stewardship
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Short Form Poetry Workshop: Pleiades – Stewardship
The Short Form Poetry Workshop this evening pertained to a New Zealand form of poetry called a Pleiades. What is a Pleiades? • Invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. • a single seven-line stanza. • Only … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooperation, New Zealand, Pleiades, Poem, Short Form Poetry, Stewardship
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Take Five, #3: Recognizing the Enemy
The third poem from tonigh’s short-form poetry workshop relied on the following words: Take Five, Part 2: 1 – defenestration the action of throwing someone or something out of a window. the action of dismissing someone from a position of … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Colaphize, Defenestration, Emetic, Hapax, Lucifer, Marx, Poetry, Republican, Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky, Short Form Poetry, Take Five, Tax, Vicissitude
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Take Five, #2: I Come Seeking Wisdom
The second poem from tonight’s short form poetry workshop relied on the following words: Take Five, Part 2: 1- Pedagogy The discipline that deals with the theory and practice of education 2 – senescence the condition or process of deterioration … Continue reading
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Tagged Bajulate, Gregorian Chant, Mendicant, Pedagogy, Repent, Senescence, Short Form Poetry, Take Five, Theology, Truculent, Wisdom
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Take Five, #1: The Serpent
At tonight’s short form poetry workshop, we engaged in a sort of game of poetic wordplay. The goal of the game is to take five selected lesser used words and quickly form a dash of poetry from these words. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Ebullience, Garden of Eden, Ineluctable, Lethean, Naked Simian, Perfidy, Short Form Poetry, Sibilant, Take Five
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Anaphora Form: My Forever Love
Tonight at the Short Form Poetry workshop we got acquainted with a poetic device called the anaphora. To paraphrase, we learned that “anaphora” comes from Greek for “a carrying up or back’. It refers to a type of parallelism created … Continue reading
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Tagged Ally, Anaphora, Forever, Greek, Love, Psalms, Short Form Poetry
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Epistrophe – Stormy Moments
Tonight’s weekly short form poetry workshop featured a form based on a literary device commonly known as an epistrophe. This is, also, sometimes called epiphora or anistrophe. An epistrophe “is the repetition of words or a phrase at … Continue reading
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Tagged Epistrophe, Ghazal, Lightning, Short Form Poetry, Stormy, Thunder
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 