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Poetry: March 06, 2019 Issue [#9412]




 This week: Spring into Lady's Slippers!
  Edited by: eyestar~* Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter

*Delight* Happy March! I am happy to be your guest editor for this edition! Let's have some Spring fun with some new poet forms and say Happy Birthday to E.B. Browning today! *Cake**Balloonp*


Two quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

"You're something between a dream and a miracle." ~

"Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully."


*Heart* "Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone." – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.' – T.S. Eliot



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Letter from the editor

*Buttonforward* Let's Spring into Poetry. It might be a little early here in Canada, but it is always blooming here at WDC! Poets are starting early too.

I just spied two poetry forms that I did not know about and couldn't resist giving a whirl! They look like fun! *Delight*

*Flowerp*The Lady's Slipper *Heel*


*Flowerr*This short poem is an invented form from Viola Gardner (1903-1089). It is a 3 line verse with internal rhyme and has:

*Bulletr* metered iambic trimeter lines: uS-uS-uS
*Bulletgr*internal rhyme in each line
*Bulletv*the last line leaves the reader to think or question.

Its close rhyme form can also be a bit silly! *Wink*

Check out the "Verdant Poetry Contest" Open in new Window. while you are creating one of these! *Thumbsup*


My example:

*Bee* I see the bumblebee
in daffodils with frills
yet spring green steals the scene.
*Grass*


*Choco* The Punnett *Calculator*


Oh! It's based on math! *Shock* A form based ratios in a Punnett Square. I just love how poems can be discovered from everywhere! *Laugh* The form was created by Marc Arnts, when he was teaching high school biology!
And he is one of us at WDC. Turtle ~ KanyáthƐko:wa:h Author Icon *Bigsmile*

*Bulleto* The topic must be biological
*Bulletp* the first line being a part of or offspring of the last line.
*Bulletr* 9 lines with a word count of 1/2/1/2/4/2/1/2/1.
*Bulletg* no rhyming structure
*Bulletbr* Centered on the page


*Leaf*
Leaf
Trembling, rustling
Rest
Wind blown
Soaking up the sun
Building nourishment
Falling
From this
Tree
*Tree*
by Marc


My humble first attempt: *Smile*

deer
young, three-legged,
alert,
ate grain;
seeing me at window
leaps away
quick
like a
doe.


*Pointright* Did you know you can find a ton of cool forms and practice them at "The Poet's Place " Open in new Window.

*Cake* A birthday tribute:*Balloonp*


*Heart*Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born March 6, 1806, the eldest of 12 children! Yikes! She became a well known Victorian poet and famous for her writings and marriage with Robert Browning. An prolific writer who influenced folks like Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson Remember "Aurora Leigh: and "How do I love thee, let me count the ways?" Yep!! Those are hers.

I couldn't let today go by without a little tribute to this wonderful poet of the Victorian Age. *Heart*


"Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my father’s name;
Piled high, packed large, - where, creeping in and out
Among the giant fossils of my past,
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box, pulling through the gap,
In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,
The first book first. And how I felt it beat
Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark,
An hour before the sun would let me read!"

from her long work "Aurora Leigh" of 1956.

Thank you for reading.
Now: go forth and create a Lady's slipper or a punnett! Looking forward to reading them. *Smile*

Eyestar

*Cool* Cool Sources I used:
http://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/ladys-slipper/
http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/forums/topic/1199-metric-forms-from-pathways-for...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10680518/Elizabeth-Barrett-Br...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning





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*Grass* Pop into spring and enjoy!

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Haiku Poem Contest with Prompt. Round 11 Closed!
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