Blogs about: Villanelle
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Poetic Forms
Poetic forms are fences holding words that otherwise might fly like little birds. The repetition of the villanelle gives rhythm to the lines that ebb and swell. The sonnet sets comparison in view and… more →
Brainstorms: How Epilepsy and Writing Connect
Reciprocal Zugzwang
wrote 13 hours ago: Whose turn forces the move must lose the day ⠀⠀in sacrifice resigning, off then on as darkness fills … more →
Poem of the Week: If You Want to Bring Back Sketch Comedy...
wrote 14 hours ago: How’s it going, readers! The inspiration for this week’s poem comes from what I personal … more →
Doxology
wrote 1 day ago: I know my Father like falling snow pulled down into the frozen street. But what’s hard to hold is ha … more →
An excerpt from a villanelle
wrote 2 days ago: Look to the heavens the cosmic design On a night of full moon and starry skies The space and the lig … more →
Villanelly the Mastadon
wrote 2 days ago: Villa Nelly the Elephant Phew! Thank Zeus for that, now it is over Free at last of the … more →
Things I have been thinking about lately:
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wrote 3 days ago: how to work with fear without being submerged in it how to play with anxiety (ridicule?) how to inve … more →
Sestina and Villanelle by Doug Bootes
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wrote 4 days ago: Beyond Winter In order to write a Haiku about spring Confine the paradigm to real time, Plum blossom … more →
The True Extent of Unity
wrote 6 days ago: This is a villanelle I wrote with pantheistic themes in mind: Into the vast I disperse my sou … more →
Poetic Forms
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wrote 6 days ago: Poetic forms are fences holding words that otherwise might fly like little birds. The repetition of … more →
the true republic
wrote 1 week ago: the true republic lies beneath the sea a single bound will take you straightway there it’s our … more →
Villanelle Again
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wrote 1 week ago: It’s time I wrote a brand-new villanelle. These Little Thoughts and Gotchas had their day. I h … more →
Good Penny
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wrote 1 week ago: I’ll love you if, I’ll love you when my heart remembers beating until befo … more →
