It is a new month, meaning time to come up with a new challenge. After looking at a few different things, I settled upon the shadorma, a six-line form with a syllable count of 3/5/3/3/7/5. My initial effort using this form is an ekphrastic poem, inspired by the Richard Lester version of The Three Musketeers.
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Maybe it’s the neon markers… (a poem)
An ekphrastic poem, inspired by Yan Li’s painting Self-thinking.
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Dendrites and scarecrows fray over time (a poem)
I managed to rescue this one from itself at the last minute…
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Frontispiece (A poem)
A bit of stream-of-consciousness writing while watching an episode of Sleepy Hollow…
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Soft edges (a poem)
Argh! Yesterday was frustrating when it came to writing. This one will need some work…
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One of those small moments worth living for (a poem)
An afternoon at the library a couple of days ago.
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There is no way to interrupt the process once it has begun (a poem)
Had trouble sleeping at first last night, so I tried writing a few things…
Something about the old cliché about shadows (a poem)
The February 16th prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to write a poem about your shadow, then describe the shadows around you, etc. I took a more general approach.
National Poetry Writing Month: Day 22 (April 22, 2013)
Ignoring today’s prompt; writing a pastoral poem doesn’t interest me. Continue reading
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