WEEKLY POETRY CHALLENGE STARS | CHALLENGE: No. 198, #PoetsChoice

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What an amazing week of poetry! What a thrill to see all your syllabic poetry choices.

Here’s everyone who joined in:

1.Jude12.Marsha Ingrao23.Dolores
2.Jude13.anita dawes24.Pat
3.Gwen Plano14.Padre25.Goutam Dutta
4.Gwen Plano15.Myforever. blog26.Vashti Quiroz- Vega
5.Elizabeth16.Dave Madden27.Joe Inabinette
6.Trent McDonald17.s. s.28.kittysverses
7.theindieshe18.Cheryl29.Linda Lee Lyberg
8.willowdot2119.Jules30.Ruth Scribbles
9.Tina Stewart Brakebill20.Frank J. Tassone31.H. R.R. Gorman
10.Dora21.Kerfe Roig32.Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr
11.D. L. Finn22.Dolores  

Please note: Some of these sites are not accessible. I’ve even tried searching your blogs one post at a time, trying to find your post, but that didn’t work either. Besides, that is way too time-consuming for me.

Please add the URL of your blog post after it has posted and gone live on your blog. The URL is the https:// address of your post. Copy and paste your post’s URL into Mr. Linky. If there is another address left in Mr. Linky, delete the old address first, then copy and paste in the new address.

If you link to my challenge post (do this by copying the URL of my challenge post into your own blog post. I receive a “ping-back” letting me know you linked to my post. These ping-backs show up as links in the comments section of my challenge post. I search these links only as a last resort. Please make it easy for us to find your post. ❤

DON’T FORGET! This week, Tuesday’s poetry challenge will feature the Carrot Ranch Rodeo poetry challenge! Carrot Ranch is famous for 99-word flash fiction, and I created a form called the Double Ennead, a 99 syllable form to challenge your word skills! There are a few surprises with this form and the chance to win $25 for the top prize from Carrot Ranch.com. Be ready to write!

Congratulations everyone! I’m sharing a few of my favorite poems from this week.

Jude did some spectacular tweaking to the tanka form this week by using three variations of the tanka form, which resulted in some spectacular Gogyohka (s/l/s/l/l).

My Forever Blog introduced the Alouette syllabic form. This has an interesting rhyming scheme as well.

D. L. Finn wrote a spectacular haiga. The image is where I want to go and relax. 😀

All right, Word Metrists… get some sleep! Tomorrow’s challenge is going to be something special!

Published by Colleen M. Chesebro

An avid reader, Colleen M. Chesebro rekindled her love of writing poetry after years spent working in the accounting industry. These days, she loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. In addition to poetry books, Chesebro’s publishing career includes participation in various anthologies featuring short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. She’s an avid supporter of her writing community on Word Craft Poetry.com by organizing and sponsoring a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called #TankaTuesday, where participants experiment with traditional and current forms of Japanese and American syllabic poetry. Chesebro is an assistant editor of The Congress of the Rough Writers Flash Fiction Anthology & Gitty Up Press, a micro-press founded by Charli Mills and Carrot Ranch. In January 2022, Colleen founded Unicorn Cats Publishing Services to assist poets and authors in creating eBooks and print books for publication. In addition, she creates affordable book covers for Kindle and print books. Chesebro lives in the house of her dreams in mid-Michigan surrounded by the Great Lakes with her husband and two (unicorn) cats, Chloe & Sophie.

12 thoughts on “WEEKLY POETRY CHALLENGE STARS | CHALLENGE: No. 198, #PoetsChoice”

  4. Hey Colleen, loved this week’s entries and thank you so much for the mention 💕🤗🧡
    Lemme go check out the carrot ranch challenge now

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