This year’s Writer’s Games are over. I’m happy to say that one of my stories placed third in its event, so it will be published in the anthology. My first publication this year. Woohoo! This is the first Saturday I’m not working on a story, and am excited to have a Stream of Consciousness Saturday.Continue reading “A Lucky Stream of Consciousness”
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Fun With Mirrors
The Dverse Poets Pub’s challenge today is to try the Mirrored Refrain form created by Stephanie Repnyek. It looks like a fun challenge of rhyme and repetition. Here goes: A Needed Rest Fireflies’ sparks among the murmur,relief within the monotonous slop,illuminate the eighth-note rest,thrust of syncopation, surprise stop. A small puncture to the drone,the pointContinue reading “Fun With Mirrors”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Eight: Revise, Get Feedback, Revise Again
Revise After looking at all my redrafts, I made a few more changes to my poem and was about to upload it to Scribophile, when I saw that in this version the poem read in couplets. Here is the version I uploaded to Scribophile for critique: Cleaning All the Dirty Dishes An impression arrests fruitContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Eight: Revise, Get Feedback, Revise Again”
Playing with Anapests in Monotetra
Today’s Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is to use a movie quote in a poem. Mish provided a list to choose from. When I saw “It’s alive! It’s alive!” from Frankenstein (1931), the repetition reminded me of a poetry form. I looked back through my poems from last OctPoWriMo and found it in myContinue reading “Playing with Anapests in Monotetra”
Dactyls Dactyls Everywhere: not a ptero in sight.
Conviviality dance to the, dance to themusic of Chopin andwaltz with me, waltz with meround a nice fantasykeep up appearancessentimentalitiesbackhanded complimentsblacking out promises dance with me, dance with meturning me endlesslywaltz to the, waltz to themockingbird murmuringvisitors’ vanitiesblushing with jealousyechoing, echoingover the wonderful fantasy Today’s Meet the bar prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is toContinue reading “Dactyls Dactyls Everywhere: not a ptero in sight.”
Pleasure of Poetry
My previous post, the last in my redrafting demonstration, was about emulating a poem or poet. Today, the Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub takes that to a whole new level. Laura challenges us to write a poem either about one of our favorite poets, or addressing a poet in direct voice. I think I’llContinue reading “Pleasure of Poetry”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Seven: Emulate another poem or poet
Emulate another poem or poet I picked up a copy of The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics by Diane Lockward. In the Craft Tip #3 Poem and Prompt section, she talks about “Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop” by John Murillo. This poem is based on “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop. Take aContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Seven: Emulate another poem or poet”
Great Balls of Fire! A getaway pegacorn happens!
Last week I found two Sunday writing prompts. Let’s see what they have for me today: Poetic Bloomings‘ PROMPT #334 is “It Happens” and Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie‘s Sunday Writing Prompt is “Great Balls of Fire” I thought I would combine the prompts and was mid-freewrite with the ideas, but then something happened. 🙂 Flying Free onContinue reading “Great Balls of Fire! A getaway pegacorn happens!”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Six: Redrafting for rhythm and rhyme
Looking over my favorite lines from my two upside-down poems in the last post, I started noticing some interesting, slightly altered repetition. But before we jump into the next round of drafts which will get us looking at rhythm and rhyme, I want to share something fun I found. Poemage Poemage is a visual close-readingContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Six: Redrafting for rhythm and rhyme”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Five: New Redrafting Ideas
The dVerse Poets Pub prompt for Poetics is Blue Tuesday. Sarah challenges us to write Blue poems which gave me an idea for another redraft, “Put a color on it.” This a great way to think about revising to emotion as well. When you’ve identified the mood and emotion you want your poem to convey,Continue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Five: New Redrafting Ideas”
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