Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 38
I have seen you
in every shade
with
or
without mask
raring to bust
sometimes
like a volcano
then
to maintain peace
seen you
simmer down
I know
you all
’cause
I’m one of you
raring to bust
Comeuppance
truth lies behind apparitions smoke covers sensible (un)renditions I follow disaster unfailingly steps taken astride questionably where sounds appear equivocal dark hatred surrounds icicles till molten volcanoes exacerbate paths frozen -- ambitions facilitate fair justice, fearless deliverance tall orders justify sacrifice 10-line Poem Challenge - Sonnetina Due
10-line Poem Challenge #31: Sonnetina Due
Welcome to week 4 in our study of sonnetinas, or “little songs.” We are counting down from the Sonnetina Cinque, Sonnetina Quattro, and Sonnetina Tre. All of these forms have quite a bit of flexibility within the general framework, and you will find that the Sonnetina Due is no different in that regard.
The Sonnetina Due is a bit mysterious to me, for I’ve found some conflicting information regarding this form. All sources agree that the Sonnetina Due is formed from five couplets, but the conflict comes with the rhyme scheme. Some say it has a rhyme scheme of aabbccddee, while other sources say that rhyming is optional, and that any couplet form may be used. For the sake of my tutorial, I am going to side with those who allow any form of couplet, and that your choices for rhyme are either the rhyme scheme above…
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Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 38
Wonderful with multiple layers …
For this challenge, I am reblogging one of my earliest posts 4 years ago…
“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
“I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least–at least I mean what I say–that’s the same thing, you know.”
“Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “You might just as well say that “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see”!”
― Lewis Carroll
How about a coven of writers brewing our stories? I don’t mean we’re witches, meeting on a full moon, each one adding some herbs or spices in a big pot of the cauldron, cooking over an open fire. I was just thinking about this course – with all of us coming from different countries, backgrounds, experience, culture, and each one have a story brewing in our minds, waiting in anticipation to come…
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Once more
I
am
losing
hope – why don’t
you enter my dreams
and make life worth living once more
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A dog’s life
The thieves took everything except the dog. The dog was beyond their reach anyway, and his value beyond their comprehension. It was not just about his love and devotion towards the master. The dog was the owner of all his master’s business and properties through a trust. His master had tried to ensure before his … Continue reading A dog’s life
Contrapuntal Poetry
I enjoyed this challenge…
Good evening fellow scribblers and welcome to tonight’s MTB session.
Contrapuntal music is composed of multiple melodies that are relatively independent that are sounded together. In the poetic world, contrapuntal poems are poems that intertwine two (or more) separate poems into a single composition.
Tonight we are going contrapuntal.
Here is a beautiful example with explanatory notes from the poet.
Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito by Tarfia Faizullah
—at Apollo Hospital, Dhaka
Let me break
free of these lace-frail
lilac fingers disrobing
the black sky
from the windows of this
room, I sit helpless, waiting,
silent—sister,
because you drew from me
the coil of red twine: loneliness—
spooled inside—
once, I wanted to say one
true thing, as in, I want more
in this life,
or, the sky is hurt, a blue vessel—
…
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Parallel Threads
I will not let you spread your tentacles to catch them young take away all that is fair and nice rebrand ethics remnants of pride broken and put together in desired shapes blossoming buds to be injected with synthetic fragrance to create new adaptable versions to fight your battles a new me not knowing what … Continue reading Parallel Threads
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 38
Welcome to Week 38! It is a collage this week. Writers will connect to it easily. So, let the fingers align to imagination, and bang on the keyboard. The format can be a a story/poem/rant/anecdotes/journalistic coverage of events/ reflections as usual. Pour out, and let it flow …. LAST WEEK’S ROUND UP Eugenia at … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #Week 38
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