It's time for an update on the poetry I need for examples for my new book, Word Craft - The Art of Crafting Syllabic Poetry. I've been playing with book cover ideas. The book is divided into two group: Japanese forms and American forms. This book covers the eleven forms we use in the weekly… Continue reading Soliciting Syllabic Poetry Donations Part Two
There's something special about the Cinquain form... it's the iambic purr of just the right amount of syllables that always touches my heart. You guys outdid your self this week. I'm thrilled you love Cinquain poetry as much as I do. I'll share some of the highlights that grabbed my attention: Joe's Lanterne: Population David's… Continue reading Weekly Poetry Challenge Stars | Specific Poetry Form ~ #CinquainPoetry
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! March is the first month to feature five Tuesdays. So, this is our first chance to work with a specific syllabic poetry form. Please only write your poetry in the specific form for this week. Thanks. This week's form is: The Cinquain & It's Variations, (excluding the Tanka) Here's a quick… Continue reading Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 171, #SpecificForm
Attention Poetry Challenge Participants: I've been working on a "How To" book, called Word Craft ~ The Art of Creating Syllabic Poetry with a goal to self-publish by April 2020. This will be a chapbook and great reference for all syllabic poets. It's occurred to me that I would like to include more syllabic poetry… Continue reading Syllabic Poetry Donations
This is my contribution to my Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge where we use synonyms for the prompt words when we write our poetry. This week, I used "harmonize" for belong and "desire" for dream. Desire - a meditation on being harmonize your thinking live this moment fulfilled © 2018 Colleen M. Chesebro A reverse… Continue reading “A Meditation on Being,” A Reverse #Cinquain
For my Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge this week I used finding for breakthrough, and journey for movement. New Cinquain Poetry Forms Cinquain - Wikipedia (Many Thanks to Scott from the House of Bailey.Wordpress.com for the information) * Reverse Cinquain: A form with one 5-line stanza in a syllabic pattern of two, eight, six, four, and… Continue reading “My Journey,” A Reverse #Cinquain
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