Word Craft: Prose & Poetry
Welcome to a new feature on wordcraftpoetry.com, which highlights the poets in our writing community. Get to know the people behind the poetry and the books. It’s a great way to share our love for writing poetry with others. Today’s guest is Marjorie Mallon. She’s a frequent participant in our Tanka Tuesday challenges. I’ve known Marje since we both started
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Jude, one of our challenge participants, asked me a valuable question. He wanted to know how to self publish a poetry book. (If you have had novel experiences publishing your poetry book, please share in the comments). This is a brilliant question! I usually compile my manuscript on Microsoft Word, but as a MAC user, I also have Pages which
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? This month’s theme is: Dreams On the Monday recap, I’ll select someone to choose next month’s theme. For this poetry challenge, you can write your poem in the forms defined on the cheat sheet: Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge Cheat sheet Here are
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I’d like to suggest an optional form for us to experiment with. A few months ago, Merril D. Smith wrote a poem called a Diatelle. She found this form on shadowpoetry.com. âThe Diatelle is a fun, syllable counting form like the etheree with a twist. The syllable structure of the diatelle is as follows:Â 1/2/3/4/6/8/10/12/10/8/6/4/3/2/1, but unlike an etheree, has a
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Welcome to our weekly poetry stars celebration. This weekâs challenge was to choose synonyms for the words, âloose and tight,â using one of these forms: Haiku, Senryu, Haiga, Tanka, Gogyohka, Haibun, Tanka Prose, Renga, Solo-Renga, Cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, Nonet, Shadorma, Badger Hexastich (hexastich for short), and Abhanga. Remember⌠the first of the month you can write any syllabic poetry form of your
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Did you know plants respond to the sounds of our voices? Sounds like an opportunity to read your poetry aloud! (Talking to Plants) Hello Word Crafters! As I continue to introduce more syllabic poetry forms featuring an end rhyming scheme, I thought we would discuss what an end rhyme scheme is. Here is a quick definition: A rhyme scheme is
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! It’s the third week of the month! Time for an Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt This challenge explores Ekphrastic writing inspired by visual art (photographs). I selected the image for this monthâs challenge, but I’ll choose someone from the recap to pick the image for next month. Hello Word Crafters! I believe I fixed the problem with WP and
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Welcome to our weekly poetry stars celebration. This week’s challenge was to choose synonyms for the words, âloose and tight,â using one of these forms: Haiku, Senryu, Haiga, Tanka, Gogyohka, Haibun, Tanka Prose, Renga, Solo-Renga, Cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, Nonet, Shadorma, Badger Hexastich (hexastich for short), and Abhanga. Remember⌠the first of the month you have the opportunity to
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! This week, Word Crafters, I selected the words to get us going. These words are opposites with many synonym possibilities: Loose & Tight For Colleenâs Weekly Poetry Challenge, you can write your poem in the forms defined on the Poetry Challenge Cheat sheet below: View Cheatsheet Here are some sites that will help you write your
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Originally posted on Carrot Ranch Literary Community:
âKid, ya told me ya got Colleen Chesebro cominâ in this week.â âYep. Pretty cool, huh?â âYeah, butâŚâ âBut what, Pal?â âWell, I have ta ask, âcause weâre fictional characters anâ sometimes we git fictional characters in here at the Saddle Up as guests, so, I jist was wunnerinâ⌠is Colleen fer real?â…
