Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on August 16, 2016 by Colleen M. Chesebro
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Category: Tanka Tuesday Poetry ChallengesTags: haiku, Haiku in English, hate, love, poetry, relationships
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“What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you’re a poet.”
—Erica Jong
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Colleen M. Chesebro is a Michigan Poet who loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, shadorma, Badger’s hexastich, Abhanga, and diatelle poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems,” and in various other online publications. She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly 99-word flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com, an online writing community. Recently, she created the Double Ennead, a 99-syllable poetry form for Carrot Ranch. Colleen has published a collection of poetry, flash fiction, and short stories called, “Fairies, Myths & Magic: A Summer Celebration,” dedicated to the Summer Solstice. She contributed a short story called “The Changeling,” in the “Ghostly Rites Anthology 2020” published by Plaisted Publishing House. Colleen Chesebro’s poetry blog is called Word Craft – Prose & Poetry at https://wordcraftpoetry.com/ Her author blog is found at https://colleenchesebro.com where you will find her poetry and short stories.
WOW… words and picture!
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An old one I wrote long ago. The picture was really cool and emphasized the words. 😱😉❤️
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Yes, a stunning image and fantastic words!
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Striking words and picture Colleen.
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Thanks, Marje. 💖
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Ooooh! Intense, Colleen!!!
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Thanks, Ritu. 😊
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Where did all this vitriolic passion arise from? It had to erupt from somewhere.
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Oh, this is an old haiku. I have an interesting past! LOL. You are a true artist after you have experienced pain. 😊💖
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How can the subtle colors of pain emerge in writing if it has never been felt before? It would be like asking someone who only sees black and white to describe the colors green, blue, yellow and red.
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What beautiful and true words you speak. By the time we are middle aged we have all loved and felt pain. ❤
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Truly and simply awesome!
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Burning HOT Colleen! ❤
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LOL! You can feel the words. 😱😳
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