 Poetry: January 10, 2024 Issue [#12355] |
This week: New Year New Poetry? Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Socrates
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
W. H. Auden
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New Year New Poetry?
Happy New Year!
There is something about a new year that makes me move from the reflection that happens at the end of the year to the rejuvenation, anticipation and energy for the wonderful things that could be.
What does that revitalization look like to you?
--Tossing out the stuff that doesn’t work for you anymore and bringing in what might make a difference
--Trying something totally new to add to your repertoire
--Finding a brand-new focus that brings you joy and energy
And now to help you find that rejuvenation, I’ve got something that reminds me of the fireworks we saw when the new year dawned.
Descort
The descort poetry form is a bit like fireworks. This French form is unique in that each line and each stanza is different from each other, and it is up to the poet to create something beautiful with this string of dissimilar lines.
This a great form to practice meter and to explore themes and other poetic devices that would echo and compliment the eclectic nature of this poetic structure.
Brief History
The descort form originates in the 1200’s. Just like it sounds, the name means discord.
Must Haves
-Each line has its very own meter and rhyme.
-Each stanza has a different amount of lines and must be different from the other stanzas.
Could Haves or What's The Poet's Choice In All This?
-Can be any number of lines.
-Can be any number of stanzas.
-No set meter.
-No set rhyme.
SOURCE NOTES:
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
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From: Monty 
Comment: Too many letters already, You do not quit at 83
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