And now for something a little light, a little fun, and a lot corny (pun intended.) L.L. Barkat and Tweetspeak Poetry have put out a glass slipper sonnet challenge. What If? (A Glass Slipper Sonnet) What if she hadn’t slipped slipper from foot? What if she’d hurtled headlong down the stair? Would an ungraceful girlfriend […]
Window on Writing: To Write a Poem–A Sestina
I’m late to the party. July was sestina month over at Tweetspeak Poetry, and I struggled with this. And I didn’t have the patience to sit down and write such a long poem. But finally I tried. It was a matter of pride. And now I can scratch it off my to-do list. I […]
Window on Writing: More Poems-in-Waiting
I admit it. I’m hooked on Wordles. So here is a continuation of yesterday’s post. From Karen’s There-Isn’t-a-Story Wordle: Life sank low gathered skin smothered death Hope. From Karin’s Wordle-ing Poetry Frozen layers brittle heart splintered love cradled gentle warmth surrendered joy released. From MaryAnn’s Collected Poems Wordle: Morning flowers wreathing time ancient skies […]
Textures of Text: Poems-in-Waiting
Last week I texturized a year of my poetry in Wordle form in response to a T.S. Poetry Press challenge. And L.L. Barkat found a poem-in-waiting within those words: Now find love gentle sweet, like blue expectations attached to grace. She found other poems in the Wordles of others, too, and featured them as well as […]
Textures of Text: A Year of Poetry in a Wordle
T.S. Poetry Press extended an invitation to create a Wordle using “some kind of poetic grist” for a linkage and possible feature over at the Tweetspeak Poetry blog next week. A Wordle is a toy that generates a “word cloud” from input text. “The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the […]
