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The Wedding
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – Prompt #320 “Branching Out” “The branch can hold many connotations in nature (tree branch), everyday (bank branch), personal (genealogy – family tree, reaching to achieve). So this week we ask that you make that stretch … Continue reading
Observing A Wedding (Draft 1)
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetry Forms: The Pantoum (posted by Gina) “The pantoum is a poetic form derived from the pantun, a Malay verse form: specifically from the pantun berkait, a series of interwoven quatrains and rhyming couplets. … Continue reading
Wedding
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub-Meeting the Bar: the Golden Shovel form Here are the rules, in a nutshell: – Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire. – Use each word in the line(s) as an END word … Continue reading
Narrowing Focus Technique
Written for: Carpe Diem Special #934, onions a morning of snow only the onions in the garden blaze the trail © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) This HWT is called Narrowing Focus and it was used often by Buson (1716-1784)) because, … Continue reading