 Poetry: August 01, 2018 Issue [#9027] |
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This week: Little Moments Can Make Powerful Poetry Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
"A good poem creates a world that somehow touches the reader. That world is built of images that come to the reader through vivid sense details and the music of vivacious language."
Paul Janeczko
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Little Moments Can Make Powerful Poetry and a Little Poetry Can Make a Moment Powerful.
The smell of bacon roused me from a dream that quickly faded from my memory. I rolled out of bed and helped my husband set the table. We sat in quiet comfort, merely exchanging a look or smile between bites.
Little moments and memories in our lives can be presented simply, but with carefully chosen poetic tools like: similes, metaphors, rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, for example, and with these you can show great depth and thereby create a powerful poem. Take my snippet above as an example. I’ve already begun to show that in this moment in time there is love. I could use this memory, along with the poetic tools listed above to create a love poem.
So, I have a challenge for you. Grab a moment from your week and create a poem. Any theme or topic is fine. I’m going to share a poetry form below, but you do not need to follow it. For those of you who create poetry from little moments on a regular basis, I have a different challenge. For you I’d like to see you take a moment you’ve used in a poem before and rewrite it with a different theme or topic.
If you choose to accept this challenge, please send it to the newsletter and I’ll share it with our readers!
Chiasmus AKA Mirror Image aka Antimetabole
I chose this form because the chiasmus is also known as the mirror image poem, and I’m challenging you to either take a moment from life and mirror it in a poem, or a poem you’ve already created that is of a little moment and change the theme or topic (ex: love to grief, or apathy, etcetera).
I’m not sure where I found this form, but I had it scribbled in my notes to do more research on it for a future newsletter for quite a while. When I did research it, I could only find information on the literary device, not the form, so if there are rules you run across somewhere regarding this form, then consider this my variation as I’m creating these rules for what makes most sense to me for how this form should work.
MUST HAVES
--Create a poem that uses the literary device: chiasmus—which is a statement where the first part is mirrored in the second part of the statement but has been changed in meaning. For example, look at the title of this newsletter or the statement of “don’t mind those who don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind.” Both use chiasmus. (NOTE: Chiasmus can also refer to more than the words used, it can also refer to rhyme schemes and more.) The rest of the poem should then mirror the chiastic statement you’ve used.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Word count.
--Topic/theme
--Line count.
--Meter
--Number of stanzas.
--Rhyme
--Alignment
EXAMPLE ON THE WEB
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55102/mirror-image-56d23647328f5
SOURCE NOTES:
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
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Theme: Nothing on chiasmus was found on WDC, so I'm sharing some poetry I enjoyed reading recently
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A haiku sonnet written about the colour orange, without using the word orange.
by Choconut  |
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Have a question, answer, problem, solution, tip, trick, cheer, jeer, or extra million lying around?
If so, send it through the feedback section at the bottom of this newsletter OR click the little envelope next to my name Red Writing Hood <3 and send it through email.
Comments on last month's newsletter:
From: Christopher Roy Denton 
Comment: Hi! Thank you for featuring Silly Boys in your informative newsletter. Since I wrote that, I've created a new form that I simply call the heart. This is shown in the poem "Scary Love" , though I should warn you that it refers to a physical relationship and is GC rated. The form rhymes ABBCCCBBAAXA. It must be centered, and the initial line is split into two parts by two indents, or by the length of two syllables of your line if handwriting. The iambic feet are arranged: 2 5 6 5 5 5 4 3 3 1 with feminine ending, so three syllable, and a final one syllable stressed to form the point of the heart. The aim is to build up the argument in the first half, but when the rhymes begin to repeat from the B rhyme onward, to flip the argument and come to a punchy conclusion in the final syllable.
You're most welcome, and thank you so much for sharing yet another shape poem with us!
From: Sum1's Home 
Comment: Thank you for featuring both Hourglass and Candle in the newsletter today! I have to say, there is a poem, maybe not a classic shape poem, but an awesome poem just the same. I read it, and had to re-read it to get it's full impact. "Speak soft my name" by Kåre เลียม Enga  Thank you again! Jim
You're welcome, and thanks for sharing that poetic gem!
From: Monty 
Comment: A really fine News Letter Red. The shape poem when rhyming is used is not an easy write if a story is told. I really enjoyed your News Letter.
Thank you for saying so, Monty.
Thank you all for your feedback!
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