Flickr Photos
If you appreciate my work, please buy me a coffee
$3.00
Tag Archives: Workshop
Forgotten Presents
Let’s call this one for the missed one on December 22nd and Happy Chanukah to all who celebrate this! Forgotten Presents by Michael Romani To all the kids who learned How not to believe All of those who have been … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Anger, Begun, Belief, Believe, Better, Carol, Celebrate, Christmas, Church, Core, Cross, Cure, Dark, Deceive, December 22 2019, Desire, Dream, Drift, Elves, Endure, Eyes, Faith, Fall, Family, Feelings, Float, Forgotten, Found, Full Drill, Full Stop, Ground, Hall, Happy Chanukah, History, Hold, Holy Night, Hope, Hug Out, Humanity, Hurt, Kid, Learn, Lessons, Letters, Life, Loss, Love, Memory, Miracle, Photograph, Plight, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Prescience, Present, Relief, Santa, Snow, Stranger, Stream, Sum, Together, True Believer, Truth, Turn, Words, Workshop, World
Leave a comment
Short Form Poetry: In Your Name
From the short form poetry workshop last night. It is a form called anaphora. These are the notes from the first notecard explaining the concept: “Anaphora is a poetic technique. From the Free Dictionary The first definition for anaphora is … Continue reading
Short Form Poetry Workshop: Arkquain String -Sunshine Arkquain
Tonight’s Short Form Poetry Workshop exposed us to the Arkquain String form. So, what exactly is that and how does it work, right? It was invented by Madison Shaw, aka Arkbear on Allpoetry. 12 lines with ( 1 ) break … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arkquain String, Blues, Blues Scale, Calling, Cream, Disreali Gears, Guitar, Jack Bruce, Key of D, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progression, Retrogression, Rock, Short Form, Soul, Star, Sunshine of Your Love, Wail, Waiting, Workshop
Leave a comment
Ekphrastic Workshop – Sparkle Dim
The Tuesday night short poetry workshop tonight has to do with the Ekphrastic form of deriving a poem based on a work of art including digital art/photographs. From this I came up with the following: Sparkle Dim Ekprhastic by Michael Romani … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Beauty, Blessed, Dance, Dim, Ekprhastic, Free, Glowing, Gratitude, Growing, Karma, Love, Photograph, Platitide, Poem, Poetry, Share, Shatter, Smile, Sparkle, Understand, Workshop
Leave a comment
Short Poetry Workshop – Crystalline – Crystalline Hope (Small Town Life)
Indiana is filled with small towns and with these people of the earth who remind us of what it means to be neighbors and community. Crystalline Hope (Small Town Life) by Michael Romani Down the way on a country highway … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Brick, Byway, Carousel, Community, Corn, Country, Crystalline, Family, God, Honest, Hope, Life, Photograph, Short Poetry, Silos, Small Town, Town Square, Workshop
Leave a comment
Short Form Poetry Workshop – Symetrelle – The Snow Leopard Symetrelle
What is a Symetrelle • 10 line form • First line and last line has a single subject line that is 7 syllables. • Followed by a 9 syllable mono-rhyme couplet (2 lines) • Followed by an 11 syllable mono-rhyme … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Cat, Himalayas, Photographs, Short Form Poetry, Snow Leopard, Symetrelle, Workshop, Yeti
Leave a comment
Short Form Poetry Workshop – Fibonacci- Saying More By Saying Less
How do you write a fib? • There are no official rules for a Fibonacci poem – like a season word or rhyme requirement – but there are guidelines. o For one – the poem needs to be in Fibonacci … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Cuddle, Daughters, Dreams, Family, Fibonacci, Love, Poem, Poetry, Short Form, Sweet Thoughts, Workshop
Leave a comment


