Greetings! The Be Inspired Weekly Challenge is back! It is in its 19th Week, though the last week was a dull one! The Challenge, unfortunately, did not receive any poem for the Challenge #18 of writing a Cascade. However, I expect many writers- potential and existing, to kindly let me know what changes they would like to see in this Challenge. Like, some inspirational quotes … Continue reading “The Be Inspired Weekly” Writing Challenge #19
Greetings! The Poetic Form of the Week is Tanaga. This is a Filipino Type of Poetry. The Tanaga is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line — that is to say a 7-7-7-7 Syllabic verse, with an AABBrhyme scheme as in this example: In the Tagalog original, using archaic orthography: “Catitibay ca tolos sacaling datnang agos! aco’I momonting lomot … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Tanaga
Greetings! The Be Inspired Weekly is back and in its 18th Week. There has been a slow response to the challenge lately and hence, I would like to thank the sole participant for last week’s challenge to write a Parallelogram – Ms. Melissa Simpson! Thanks so much Melissa for writing “Mr. Fix it” Well, this week, the challenge is to write a Cascade Poetry Form. … Continue reading “The Be Inspired Weekly” Writing Challenge#18
Dear Friends, Fellow Bloggers & Readers! Monday’s Poetry Form is back! This week, the poetry form is “Cascade”. It is a derived poetry form developed by Mr. Udit Bhatia. Cascade, a form created by Udit Bhatia, is all about receptiveness, but in a smooth cascading way like a waterfall. The poem does not have any rhyme scheme; therefore, the layout is simple. Say the first verse … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Cascade
Dear All, Wishing everyone a wonderful day today! 🙂 Monday’s Forms are back! This week, I introduce you all to “Parallelogram de Crystalline“ which is a derived Poetry form by Karan Naidu. Parallelogram de Crystalline is a poetry form created by Karan Naidu. This form consists of 4 verses of 3 lines each. The syllable count for each stanza is 3, 6, 9. In this style of … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Parallelogram de Crystalline
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Thoughtfully Crafted Words A collection of poetry by Amreen Shaikh Poet Amreen Shaikh has devised this collection of poems in order to “cast happiness and fervour” into the lives of poetry lovers from every walk of life. She has experimented with an interesting mix of poetry forms, including the Japanese Haiku and Senryu, and the less well known (to… Continue reading Reviewing a Collection of Poems
Dear All, This week’s revolutionary poet is Louise Glück. Have fun reading 🙂 In 1943, Louise Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Poems 1962-2012 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012); A Village Life: Poems (2009); Averno (2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The Seven Ages (2001); and Vita Nova (1999), winner of Boston Book Review’s Bingham … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Louise Glück
Dear all! Wishing everyone a wonderful day ahead! Well, The Be Inspired Weekly is back, now in its 16th Week…. isn’t it lovely? Never thought this idea would go this long way. But, really, nothing would have been possible without your support guys! I thank you all for that. Wanting to thank the writer who participated in the previous week challenge #15, which was to … Continue reading “The Be Inspired” Weekly Writing Challenge #16
Readers, friends & fellow bloggers! Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead 🙂 Well, this week, the poetic form is an Etheree. This is a rather simple form of poetry & a delight to write. Read the following paragraphs to know how is an Etheree written. The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Etheree can also be … Continue reading Poetic Form of the Week – Etheree
Hi all, This week’s revolutionary poet is Yusef Komunyakaa! In 1947, Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he was raised during the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. He served in the United States Army from 1969 to 1970 as a correspondent, and as managing editor of the Southern Cross during the Vietnam war, earning him a Bronze Star. He began writing poetry … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Yusef Komunyakaa
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