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Poetry: February 10, 2021 Issue [#10605]




 This week: Duality of Love
  Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3 Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter



"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."

Khalil Gibran



"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

Robert Frost





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Letter from the editor



Duality of Love




When you get that call.

It's a punch in the gut.

The one where they tell you they're dying.

Your love for them holding hands with sorrow, then anger, then hopelessness, and then sorrow again. Sometimes one at a time, like a slow dance and other times all at once like a game of red rover trying to break you apart.

In my years I've noticed that love is rarely this singular emotion. You'll often find it entwined with one or more other emotions.


This month I challenge you to write a poem displaying this duality—whether you show it combined in the same stanzas or separate them into their own stanzas. To help you with this challenge, I'm sharing a couple of forms.


Brady's Touch


The Brady's Touch form is a more recent invention—having been created within the past fifteen years or so. Maryann Merryweather-Travis is the poetess/inventor of this form. The name of the form comes from the person she wanted to honor with this invention, poet Allen Brady.


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--Stanza count: 2

--Line count total: 10 (5 lines in each stanza)

--Rhyme in the following format: ABCDE ABFDE

--Meter: syllabic in the following format: 9/9/8/8/2 9/9/8/8/2



COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?

--topic, theme—but if you're going to use this form for the above challenge it will be the duality of love or love and at least one other emotion.




Katuata

As the brevity of the form may suggest, it originated in Japan.


MUST HAVES


--Stanza count: 1 unless creating a Katuata chain

--Line count total: 3

--Meter: syllabic in the following format: 5/7/7

--Ask a question, then respond to that question OR make a heartfelt statement and respond to that statement (why I thought it would make a good form for the above challenge).



COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?


--Topic, theme

--Rhyme, although this form, like most Asian poetry, tends not to rhyme


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Editor's Picks



Theme: Poetry about love and other emotions

City Sorrow Open in new Window. [E]
It's Lonely in the City.
by Bandit's Mama Author Icon

Loss Open in new Window. [E]
Nature remembers the disorientation of love lost
by Eliot Author Icon

 Lady, Do Not Weep Open in new Window. [E]
What the poet said to her
by Eliot Author Icon

Fear Open in new Window. [13+]
A Poe style poem. (Edited!) The first poem I ever wrote.
by Wenston Author Icon

 CALL OF THE HEART--a ghazal Open in new Window. [E]
Describes the thoughts of a person who has lost his love.
by Dr M C Gupta Author Icon

 Just a Curtain Away Open in new Window. [ASR]
Her lovely locks and loving stare; But still I fear her lovely harm
by Crickado Author Icon

 Fallen Open in new Window. [ASR]
Sin can consume us.Will we let it?That determines if we can live with it or it destroys us
by Cynicalthought Author Icon

 True Love's Paradox Open in new Window. [E]
Just my opinion on what true love means
by Hyper Author Icon

 
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Comments on last month's newsletter:


No comments, so I'll ask you a question instead: Besides sorrow, hopelessness and anger, what other emotion holds hands with love?

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