Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on October 17, 2018 by Colleen M. Chesebro
I had a spooky time at Teri Polen’s blog today featuring in her #BadMoonRising October Spooktacular. Stop by and say hello! ❤
Today’s author is a familiar face to many of you – maybe it’s from her poems and weekly poetry challenges, her author interviews, or her Carrot Ranch writing challenges. If you own a rocking horse, many of you may be pushing them to the curb after reading this interview. Welcome Colleen M. Chesebro!
Vampires, ghosts, werewolves, or zombies – which would you least want to meet in a dark alley?
I would have to say that I would be terrified to meet a zombie in a dark alley. There’s just something about the zombies that makes my skin crawl!
Think about it… zombies are reawakened corpses who become human eating machines. And once you’re a zombie all you want to do is bite someone else, so you can infect another person with the same virus that made you a zombie. It’s a terrifying proposition. A chance meeting with a zombie…
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“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
—Dylan Thomas
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Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative 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, and shadorma poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.” Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.
I read every word, Colleen. Your rocking horse story has to be in your future book, it was scary and chilling. ❤
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LOL! It will be Miriam. It was a strange experience for sure. I’m so happy you stopped by. Hope you’re feeling better. ❤
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I have more energy for a couple days. My flu slowed me down quite a bit, but I;m glad to be sitting up again. Thank you, Colleen.<3
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O.K. You take care and get well. ❤
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Thank you, Colleen. ❤
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Hugs for sharing, Traci! 🎃🧡
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Loved your interview Sis. I left comment at Teri’s ❤
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Thanks, Sis. Great fun! 🎃🎃🎃
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Always!!!! ❤ xx
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