Writers' Pantry #52 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/01/writers-pantry-52-years-beginning.html I've been playing with some new, to me, poetry forms. April is the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, and my plans are A-Z of poetry forms. I like to get a head start, especially since I also participate on my other blog. This is a Golden Shovel. It was created by Terrance Hayes, an award-winning poet and professor in New York. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/terrance-hayes The "rules" are: take lines, or one line, from an existing poem take each word and use it, in order, as an end word in your new poem give credit My poem uses the words from the last line of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Time Does Not Bring Relief (Sonnet II), "and so stand stricken so remembering him." I had told him “yes” already, and it’s too late to change that now, so I let my words stand though I am stricken at the thought. I am so cr
Very peaceful! Enjoying this education on different kinds of poems.
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I learned a lot planning the month!
DeleteI had not heard of an Elfchen before. The poem is lovely, very peaceful and calm.
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Thank you. I learned about a lot of new forms researching the letters.
DeleteWonderful to learn something new every day. Elfchen seems similar to a haiku. I had to give it a shot.
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Brings flavor
Fresh ground beans
Espresso and ice cream
Affogato
What do you think? Cheers,
Crackerberries
I like it! Espresso and ice cream! Affogato sounds wonderful.
DeleteI never heard of this one before. Seems like a fun little one. Thanks!
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Not my favorite form, but then again, an E!
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