My Father the Poet and Teacher
His words sprung off the page. I wished for more. But cancer took him through life’s narrow door. Ah, poetry like this inspires the store of thoughts so well-expressed that I implore him...
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One hundred fifty-four Will Shakespeare wrote, his sonnets that we read and often quote: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” His...
View ArticleHow About Another Challenge?
This one is for a BLUES SONNET. It’s composed of four stanzas of three lines each (triplets) that rhyme AAa. The rhythm is loose iambic pentameter (ta-DA ta-DA ta-DA ta-DA ta-DA). The second line of...
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I would like to issue a challenge. No prizes, no cool badges, just, perhaps, the satisfaction of saying you did it. It’s for a Petrarchan sonnet. To see an example, you might go to my blog, Chronicles...
View ArticleSarah’s Challenge
Writing without being present to give life to the words and sounds to the senses, a child writing forever, through a sieve of adulthood. Writing, no defences, no beginning, no end. Explanation?...
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