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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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Short Form Poetry Workshop – Rispetto – Making America Great Again Rispetto
How remiss of me, I forgot to post that I attended the Short Form Poetry Workshop this past Tuesday. The form studied this week is the Rispetto: How do you write a Rispetto • 8 lines broken into 2 stanza … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Faith, Healing, Ideals, Poem, Prayers, Rispetto, Short Form Poetry, Stanza, United
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Short Poetry Form Workshop – Tritina #1
How to write a Tritina. • three stanzas of tercets (3 lines) • one envoy of one line • Lines may be of any length. • The first line of each tercet after the first ends with the same word … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Heaven, Poetry, Short Form, Stanza, Tercet, Tritina, Workshop
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Short Form Poetry Workshop – Flamed Zen
What is a Mirror Oddquain • One of the types of Oddquain • Short poetry style very similar to the Cinquain • Name comes from the odd syllable count per line • Five lines per stanza • two stanzas • … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Flame, Mirror Oddquain, Oddquain, Short Form Poetry, Stanza, Workshop, Zen
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The Waltz Wave: The Waltz Wave
Tonight at the short form poetry workshop, we learned about a form called The Wave Waltz. After a life time of surfing, of course wave dancing came to mind. So, what are the rules? Accepting the format as presented in … Continue reading
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Tagged Malts, Margaret Carlisle, Slow Dance, Sol Waltz, Stanza, The Wave Waltz
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