Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on December 28, 2020 by Colleen M. Chesebro
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Last I week I challenged all of you to write a holiday themed cinquain poem with a syllable count of 2/4/6/8/2. I’m so happy you shared your holiday traditions with us. Many thanks to everyone who joined in… Continue Reading “TANKA TUESDAY POETRY CHALLENGE STARS | Theme Challenge: Holiday Traditions ~ Cinquain”
Posted on April 5, 2015 by Colleen M. Chesebro
The Daily Post weekly photography challenge asks us to show something that is a blur. This is an image of my Florida driftwood Christmas tree with sunlight reflecting on it from between the slats of the blind that covers the window. The sunlight has a… Continue Reading “It’s All a Blur”
Category: Authors Supporting AuthorsTags: blur, Christmas, creativity, photography, photos
Posted on September 26, 2014 by Colleen M. Chesebro
I was born the fourth child to a German father from Kansas, and a Russian mother, who I was told was born on a boat coming to America. Apparently I was the by-product of a fabulous 35th birthday celebration that my father must have… Continue Reading “My first German-Polish-Russian Christmas”
Posted on September 14, 2014 by Colleen M. Chesebro
I see it is that time of year again – Fall, Autumn… pumpkin everything! Everywhere I go all I see is preparations for holiday celebrations. Facebook and Pintrest make me gain weight every time I glance at their luscious recipes for cookies, cakes and… Continue Reading “Autumn Musings”
Category: Authors Supporting AuthorsTags: baking, Christmas, cookies, Halloween, holiday celebrations, holidays, maple, pumpkin, Thanksgiving, Wal-Mart Fall Decorations
“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.