Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt is his usual "Two for Tuesday": 1. “Write a look back poem and/or . . .”Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt comes from the Emily Dickinson Museum, based on a reminiscence by Dickinson's niece Martha: “Describe a bedroom from your past in a series of descriptive paragraphs or a poem. It could be your childhood room, your grandmother’s room, a college dormitory or another significant space from your life.” Today's curtal sonnet is again an episode in the aswang novella project. This poem mashes up all three prompts, not only showing (and redecorating) Clara's bedroom but also incorporating both of the Brewer look back and don't look back themes. New Day: Clara's Bedroom And here is Alan's poem today mashing up the bedroom and look back prompts. Bravo, Alan! My Favorite Bedroom I have a second poem today that I actually wrote before the one above. I thought I was going rogue this time with the following COVID-19 poem, but a few hours after finishing it, the aswang poem above using today's prompts started bubbling up. As Georgia’s Massage Parlors Reopen This is a Pushkin Sonnet, also called an Onegin Stanza because Alexander Pushkin invented it to be the basic unit of his novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin. This sonnet form begins with a Shakespearean alternating quatrain (abab), followed by a Clarean couplet quatrain (ccdd), and then a Petrarchan envelope quatrain (effe), and finally a closing couplet (gg), which could figure in any of those three sonnet types. I do depart from the Pushkin format, however, because I use pentameter rather than Pushkin's tetrameter, and I also dispense with his pre-ordained pattern of so-called masculine and feminine line endings. It occurs to me now that, since I am writing a novella-in-verse, I should probably write some Pushkin sonnets for that project. Maybe tomorrow! Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. To comment, look for a red line below that starts Posted by, then click once on the word comments in that line. If you don’t find the word “comments” in that line, then look for a blue link below that says Post a comment and click it once. Thanks! Ingat, everyone. ヅ |
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2 comments:
Like both poems a lot. I'm a sucker for anagrams. My favorite anagram of my name is "cuter in bed". Do you know the poet Peter Pereira? He loves to use wordplay in his poetry and wrote one called "Anagrammer" (which you can find on Poets.org), which in turn inspired me a few years ago to write one full of anagrams and near-anagrams that I titled "Journal Evening (Loving Near June)".
P.S.: Halo-halo looks DELICIOUS. Wish I knew where to find it around here.
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