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Poetry: August 25, 2021 Issue [#10940]




 This week: Take Life & Link It
  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



"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."

Audre Lorde




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Letter from the editor




Take Life & Link It



Today, as I did little bit of yard work, I was approached by neighbors hoping I had seen their four lost ducklings. Not a usual thing to happen in our neighborhood! Perhaps that is why it kept invading my brain—the unusualness of it.

I kept thinking how this tiny fragment of my life is a bigger part of someone else's life which led to me thinking of how I could present this in some sort of writing (poetry, story, etc.). This is how you begin adding depth to a piece of writing. Analyze your purpose for writing the piece—your theme, your story—whatever link that is guiding you. Allow this to help you create the piece of writing. Allow it to help you to choose your tools (additional links) of word choice, meter, form, etc. It will, in turn, allow you to weave that chain of depth within your piece.


Inspiration is everywhere. Use it! I want to challenge you to write a poem based on something that happened today. Pick anything—a big thing or a small thing that happened, then give it that added depth link. Choose the form I share with you below or another, or no form at all--just go write!



Mini-Monoverse and Double Mini-Monoverse


This is a more recent poetry form and award-winning poet Emily Romano invented it.



MUST HAVES


--Number of stanzas: 2 (or 4 for a double mini-monoverse)

--Line count: 5 for each stanza for a total of 10 (or total of 20 for a double)

--Rhyme: AAAAA BBBBB (or also CCCCC DDDDD for a double)

--Meter: Syllabic—3 syllables in each line



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


--Word count.

--Topic/theme

--Alignment

--Many tell a story (which is why I selected it for this particular newsletter) but you choose if you do or not.



SOURCE NOTES:


http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/minimonoverse.html

https://www.dailyhaiga.org/contributors/18/romano-emily



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Editor's Picks



Theme: Mini-Monoverse and poems about life.

 
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Parting Thoughts Open in new Window. [ASR]
A mini-monoverse poem.
by Teargen Author Icon

 The Craftmans Hands Open in new Window. [E]
Tools in life are all but tools without the knowledge or heart to empower them short poem
by MoonTides Author Icon

 
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Fake News Open in new Window. [E]
A Mini-monoverse poem
by tucknits Author Icon

Making Maps Open in new Window. [E]
plotting a mid-life path--written in Lune form
by ridinghhood-p.boutilier Author Icon

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by A Guest Visitor


 
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Ask & Answer



From: (suser:jcosmos}
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Korea is having a hot summer as the heat dome settles down. Not as bad as in the US.


Korean Heat Dome Blues


It is hot summertime in Korea
hiding out avoiding the damn heat
the weather is just so hot, mama mia!
dreaming of eating ice cream, such a treat
at night nothing beats having a cold drink
Trying to avoid the tropical night
the heat dome settles like a hot heat sink
Making people so crazy, want to fight


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Comment: Thank you for including my poem, Summer, in your Editor's Picks. Beholden


Thank you for sharing and you're welcome!

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