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I created two suites of poetry over the weekend.
The first is the Living World suite.
The April PAD Challenge prompt called for a living poem.
The NaPoWriMo prompt asks for participants to play with rhyme.
I opted not to write rhyming poems.
Start by creating a “word bank” of ten simple words. They should only have one or two syllables apiece. Five should correspond to each of the five senses (i.e., one word that is a thing you can see, one word that is a type of sound, one word that is a thing you can taste, etc). Three more should be concrete nouns of whatever character you choose (i.e., “bridge,” “sun,” “airplane,” “cat”), and the last two should be verbs. Now, come up with rhymes for each of your ten words.
I didn't do this exactly. I chose ten subjects using prompts from Carpe Diem Haiku and wrote ten poems in Haiku, Senryu, or Tanka style.
Rain
Love
Sadness
Full beaver moon
Jade
Butterfly
Glacier
Flowers
Mist
Heron
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Moving on to Sunday, I created my Ekphrastic Gallery of five poems.
You can find the images I used as my inspiration in the above link.
Today's NaPoWriMo prompt asks participants write a poem of at least ten lines in which each line begins with the same word (e.g., “Because,” “Forget,” “Not,” “If”). This technique of beginning multiple lines with the same word or phrase is called anaphora, and has long been used to give poems a driving rhythm and/or a sense of puzzlebox mystery.
The five poems I wrote using this technique are as follows:
Stars
Wounds
Sailing
Screams
Strange Vacation
These are five of my favorite poems because they delve into difficult subject matter and have unexpected patterns. This is the kind of poetry I live to write.
I guess that about does it for this ol' session.
~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~
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