Poetry: May 08, 2019 Issue [#9531]
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 This week: Tell Me a (Poetry) Story Pt 2
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"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

Robert Frost



"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."

Gustave Flaubert




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Tell Me a (Poetry) Story Pt 2



Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess. She learned to bake sweet treats for the townspeople and everyone was very happy. Then one day her chariot crashed and she couldn’t remember how to bake anymore. This made the princess unhappy. This made her parents unhappy, and this made the townspeople unhappy. One day….

For millennia people have been using stories to pass on information, to share histories or to entertain. This includes in the form of poetry. Today I want to share a few ways to tell these poetry stories.



Collaborations


--Find a friend and create a poetry story together (assign parts, brain storm the whole thing together, etc).

--Find a poetry friend, or several, and take turns telling parts of this poetic story (like the campfire creatives found here at WDC).



Use a Poetry Form


In part 1 I shared fables and landays, but there are other poetry forms that utilize storytelling.


--Ballads

--Epic

--Idyll

--Lay

--Ode



Don’t Use a Poetry Form


Just tell your story, and don’t worry about using a form specifically used for stories. However, you’ll want to be sure your poem has the elements of a story:

--Characters

--Plot

--Setting



SOURCE NOTES:


The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.

Drury, John. the po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y. 2nd edition. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2006. Print.

Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.

Williams, Miller (1986). Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.



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Editor's Picks



Theme: Story poems

Ode To My Horse Open in new Window. [ASR]
Actually this is no ordinary poem because "Flame" wasn't an ordinary horse.
by The Milkman Author Icon

 A lone Man Walks A Dark Road Open in new Window. [13+]
An epic poem of fear, love, revenge, and a demon hound.
by kip Author Icon

 HEART OF STONE—a ballad Open in new Window. [E]
How a stone heart is melted by a wisp of a girl.
by Dr M C Gupta Author Icon

 That Man Looks Just Like Jesus! Open in new Window. [ASR]
A thought-provoking storoem about how Jesus really looked.
by Harry Author Icon

Love Song Open in new Window. [18+]
A ballad in anapestic tetrameter. I wanted to see if I could write a poem; you tell me.
by Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈 Author Icon

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by A Guest Visitor

 SILENT WOMEN Open in new Window. [E]
Poem depicting silence of suffering women, with a reference to Hillary Clinton.
by Dr M C Gupta Author Icon

The Ballad of the O'Donnell House Open in new Window. [13+]
A sad but true tale of Irish immigrants from the coal fields of Pennsylvania
by Maggie Author Icon

 Eyes of Jet Open in new Window. [E]
An epic poem that tells the story of a young woman cursed.
by Sara King Author Icon

 
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Comments on last month's newsletter:


From: Kate - Writing & Reading Author Icon
Comment: Thank you. What better time to incite poetic license than National Poetry Month. Intriguing examples, variations on both structured and non-form poetry - I will definitely try the haibun, and I'm especially intrigued by 'mish mash'.


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