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CALENDARS by annie finch
September 18 2009 • Cleaned up typos. Oddly, Firefox keeps mucking up WordPress Javascsripts. I’ve switched to Google Chrome. This is the third time I’ve had to correct the same typos. Ho… more →
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Another Villanelle - "The Nap"
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manicddaily wrote 1 month ago: Believe it or not, I have found, on this blog’s “stats,” that there are almost as … more →
Changing Gears - The Sestina - "Pink"
manicddaily wrote 2 months ago: I am retreating from the world of politics today to the more ordered world of formal poetry. The s … more →
Pantoum – Hard hard hard: "Overheard on the Esplanade"
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manicddaily wrote 2 months ago: I’m tackling a different poetic form today – the pantoum. Pantoums are sometimes compared to v … more →
The Five Obstructions...Form as Friend or Foe?
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creativexs wrote 2 months ago: Leth starring in the Second Obstruction Last week I rented an amazing documentary film called The Fi … more →
CALENDARS by annie finch
upinvermont wrote 3 months ago: September 18 2009 • Cleaned up typos. Oddly, Firefox keeps mucking up WordPress Javascsripts. I … more →
Villanelles - Banana Pudding
manicddaily wrote 3 months ago: I love formal poetry, particularly villanelles. I will write about the exact form (a traditionally … more →
Year One
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lynnkk wrote 8 months ago: They cut me open, gave me you. My heart Stopped and then started again. Here’s what The doctors don’ … more →
Birth
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lynnkk wrote 8 months ago: Didn’t we know you would always be difficult? Even before you were born, you turned and twisted my i … more →
Running Sonnet
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lynnkk wrote 8 months ago: On days I run before dawn, my fav- orite sight is blue-black becoming pink. If it’s afternoon, I pre … more →
Battlestar Galactica sonnet
lynnkk wrote 8 months ago: I need Battlestar Galactica, the way a junkie needs smack, an addiction more fierce than lust, a nee … more →
April 3 Spring Pantoum
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jeromewalker wrote 8 months ago: Euphorbia myrsinites When pulses of light heave to air the bulge and bloom of growth, around late Ma … more →
Spring Pantoum (april 3)
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lynnkk wrote 8 months ago: In the damp gray-green morning I believe that the rain will rain forever, that the sun is an idea we … more →
Erlkönigin
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upinvermont wrote 9 months ago: This poem is based on the Goethe’s famous poem -Erlkönig. Schubert wrote an equally famous son … more →
Roethke & Waltzing Iambic Trimeter
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upinvermont wrote 10 months ago: September 14, 2009. I remember making posters when I was a kid. The more I concentrated on the spell … more →
Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry Issue-1 2008
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upinvermont wrote 10 months ago: Here is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while – recommend Measure and a couple o … more →
What is: Iambic Pentameter & Robert Frost's Birches
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upinvermont wrote 10 months ago: February 22, 2009 – After reading this post, you might enjoy a color coded scansion of Birches … more →
Robert Frost, Iambic Tetrameter & The Road Not Taken
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upinvermont wrote 10 months ago: If scansion is new to you, check out my post on the basics. February 22, 2009 – If you enjoy F … more →
The Seven Tales of the India Traders: The Third Day
upinvermont wrote 10 months ago: Told on third day, after Pu-liang Yi’s Story of the Second Day Said one trader to another: “Mistress … more →
Natural Forms?
poetryinternational wrote 10 months ago: “I can write in iambics if I want to—but just now I don’t know my own mind quite well enough t … more →
