Note: In all of the following, I have indicated stressed syllables in bold. An iamb is a two-syllable metrical foot where the stress is on the second syllable: da dum A trochee is a two-syllable metrical foot where the stress falls on the first syllable: da dum Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping By Woods on a [...]
Painted Rectangles Medium: Mouse on Mousepad Artist: Margaret Fieland This past weekend I attended the Mass Poetry Festival, which took place this past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I skipped Friday, but I did attend both Saturday and Sunday. Back when the event was in the planning stages, I got an email about a reading of [...]
Tuesday, Mary posted about a new form, Aragman: here is a quick recap Pick a word or words, and generate anagrams by going to http:// wordsmith.org/anagram and generating a list Pick some anagrams. They form lines 1, 3, and 5 of your stanza. Complete the phrases in lines 2, 4, and 6. The very last [...]
The Artist’s Way is a book by Julia Cameron which turned into a movement on tapping into on creative potential. The book is divided into twelve chapters, one each week for twelve weeks. The core of the practice is the morning pages, 750 words that one is supposed to write longhand first thing every morning, [...]
The sestina is a poetic form attributed to twelfth century French troubadour Arnaut Daniel. It consists of six six-line stanzas and a three line envoy. The six end words of the first stanza cycle in a pattern thusly: ABCDEF/FAEBDC/CFDABE/ECBFAD/DEACBF/BDFECA and an envoy whose form varies somewhat, but which uses all six end words: BE/DC/FA or [...]
Poetic forms: the cento A cento is like a rag rug, it’s composed of bits and pieces from other things. In the case of the rug, it’s pieces of old fabric. For the cento, it’s made of verses or passages from other poems, songs, articles, stories, or whatever by other authors. The first cento I [...]
Day and night are frequently used to create mood in poetry. Here are a few of my favorite poems that make use of day/night imagery. In the poem below, the change from day to dark echoes the change in the narrator’s situation, the beginning of a relationship. The images of the sun rolling up her [...]
Persona Poems Persona poems are poems that are written in a voice other than that of the author, where the author pretends to be someone else. The first one I wrote was in response to a poetry writing exercise. The next one that I recall writing ended up in “Lifelines.” Since then, I’ve created two [...]
I love reading poetry. Not only does reading poetry expands my poetic horizons, butI constantly find inspiration in other’s work. Sometimes the subject touches a chord, sometimes I want to try out a particular poetic device, and sometimes — well — it awakens my playful side. A couple of weeks ago, Robert Lee Brewer posted [...]
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