🎃Word Craft: Prose & Poetry🎃

Updates: Word Weaving #1 (digital) & The Moons of Autumn: A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse (print)

Posted on October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

Shared from: wordweavingpoetryjournal.com: It’s been a stressful couple of days… I can only attribute it to Mercury RETROGRADE! I’ve had numerous issues with everything connected to technology—especially Amazon! On top of all this, my husband took a fall down the steps into our garage and fractured his scapula. He spent the day in the ER … Continue reading Updates: Word Weaving #1 (digital) & The Moons of Autumn: A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse (print)

How to Start Crafting Syllabic Poetry

Posted on September 5, 2021September 20, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

Are you new to crafting syllabic poetry and don't know how to start? Let me show you two syllabic poetry forms to get you started on your poetry writing journey now... Let's start with an American form, the Crapsey Cinquain. The Crapsey Cinquain is a five-line, non-rhyming poem featuring a syllable structure of 2-4-6-8-2. Choose words … Continue reading How to Start Crafting Syllabic Poetry

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 247 | #SynonymsOnly: Twilight & Hue

Posted on October 18, 2021October 17, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

POETRY NEWS Pure Haiku OPEN to submissions! Pure Haiku is once again OPEN to submissions on the theme of Ghostlight. The deadline is midnight (UK Time) on 31st October 2021. Please use the image on Pure Haiku to inspire you to write a maximum of 5 traditional haiku! Don't miss this opportunity to get your poetry published on Pure … Continue reading #TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 247 | #SynonymsOnly: Twilight & Hue

#TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 247, #SynonymsOnly

Posted on October 12, 2021October 10, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! Are you ready to choose some syllables to use in your poetry? Willow Willers from last month's challenge chose the two words for this month: Twilight & Hue 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 … Continue reading #TankaTuesday Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 247, #SynonymsOnly

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 246 | #PoetsChoice

Posted on October 11, 2021October 10, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

Word Weaving – The Moons of Autumn

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

Many Congratulations to Ken Gierke for his best of issue poem in The Moons of Autumn: A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse/Word Weaving #1.

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Three poems I submitted to Word Weaving – A Word Craft Journal of Syllabic Verse appear in its first issue, The Moons of Autumn. A shadorma (Transition), an untitled haiku, and an untitled gogyohka appear with the work of many poets with whom I have become familiar, including Annette Rochelle Aben, Bill Engleson, Franci Hoffman (Eugenia), D. Wallace Peach, Kerfe Roig, Merril D. Smith, and Willow Willers.

My gogyohka also appears on the back cover as “Best of Issue Poem.”

The Moons of Autumn is available in paperback here and in digital form (Kindle) here. Many thanks to editors Colleen Chesebro and JulesPaige for placing my poetry among that of so many fine poets.

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#TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge: #Poet’s choice

Posted on October 5, 2021October 3, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

My favorite month is here! Happy October! You guys have been killing it in the poetry department!! It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Word Crafters, choose your own poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you! On the first of the month, you can now experiment with … Continue reading #TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge: #Poet’s choice

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 245 | #ThemePrompt: “The Harvest Moon”

Posted on October 4, 2021October 3, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 245, #THEMEPROMPT

Posted on September 28, 2021September 26, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! We're celebrating the 5th Birthday of #TankaTuesday! Join in and write some syllabic poetry! It's the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Eugi (Franci Hoffman) from last month's challenge picked the theme: This month's theme is: The Harvest Moon On the Monday before the next … Continue reading #TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 245, #THEMEPROMPT

#TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 244 | Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt (Happy Birthday Tanka Tuesday)

Posted on September 27, 2021September 26, 2021 by Colleen M. Chesebro

Welcome to our weekly poetry stars' celebration. This week’s challenge was to write a poem using the lithograph selected by Merril D. Smith using one of these forms: haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, haibun, tanka prose, renga, solo renga, chōka, cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, nonet, shadorma, Badger hexastich, Abhanga, diatelle, the Kerf poetry, and any of … Continue reading #TankaTuesday #Poetry Stars No. 244 | Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt (Happy Birthday Tanka Tuesday)