Greetings! This week’s Poetry form is Triquain. The Triquain, created by Shelley A. Cephas, is a poem with several creative variences and can be a rhyming or non-rhyming verse. The simpliest form is a poem made up of 7 lines with 3, 6, 9, 12, 9, 6, and 3 syllables in this order. Triquain Chain: a string of 2 to 4 Triquains, a space between each … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Triquain
Greetings! It is April and the month of Poetry. April is observed as the National Month of Poetry, also called as NaPoMo. I was keen on dedicating this month to Poetry and write a Poem every day, to celebrate the richness of this art form. I’ve always loved to express myself and Poetry was the best medium for me. I have known that DP(Daily Post) conducts … Continue reading The Purple Sponge
Greetings! The Revolutionary Poet of the Week is William Carlos Williams. In 1883, William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound. Pound … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – William Carlos Williams
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is “Quinzaine”. The English word quinzaine come from the French word qunize, meaning fifteen. A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. These syllables are distributed among three lines so that there are seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement. The next two … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Quinzaine
Greetings! The Poetic form of the Week is Monoku. Monoku is a senryu/haiku with a slight enigmatic/ambiguous flavour, written in its earlier Japanese form as a one liner. A ceaesura (pause) may be appropriate, dictated by sense or speech rhythm,and usually very little punctuation. Seveteen syllables or less. They may also be in a sequence form. Few Examples of Monoku: #1 listen to the pause – silence is … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Monoku
Greetings! The Revolutionary Poet of the Week is Kay Ryan. Born in California in 1945, Kay Ryan grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. She received both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from UCLA. Ryan has published several collections of poetry, including The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press, 2010), for which she won the Pulitzer … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Kay Ryan
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is CLERIHEW. Named after its inventor, this is a four-line poem rhymed aabb; its first line is the name of the subject of the poem, it often breaks into two sentences at the end of the second line, and the rhythm tends to be entertainingly irregular. A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – CLERIHEW
Greetings! The Be Inspired Weekly writing challenge is in its 21st Week! That’s great, isn’t it? Soon, we will be celebrating its 25th Week! I am so excited and happy for this! Well, thanking all the participants of the Challenge #20, which was to write a Memento poetry form. “Hidden treasures” by Melissa Simpson “Breaking dawn” by Eleni “March 28 1975” by KCarl Songs I … Continue reading “The Be Inspired Weekly” #21
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is Naani. It is a traditional poetry form. Naani is one of Indian’s most popular Telugu poems. Naani means an expression of one and all. It consists of 4 lines, the total lines consists of 20 to 25 syllables. The poem is not bounded to a particular subject. Generally it depends upon human relations and current statements. This … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Naani
Greetings! Its great to tell all of you that the “Be Inspired Weekly” is in its 20th Week! Sounds great, isn’t it? I am so thankful to just everyone who gave this challenge a try and also immersed in writing such fantastic poems. The Poetic Journey so far is beautiful and I admire how every participant for the challenge have been so wonderful in sharing … Continue reading “The Be Inspired Weekly” writing challenge #20
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