Archive for the 'Poetry' Category

Smells Like Teen Spirit – August Poetic License

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

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I have to confess that I actually had intended to skip PPL this month. Busy, buried and all that jazz. I hope you’ll forgive, Robin.
But I just couldn’t. PPL is just too much fun.
And this month’s theme was too hard to pass up.
No set form. Theme is [...]

July Poetic License

Friday, July 25th, 2008

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She actually did it this time.
Robin made up a new poetic form, for real.
This isn’t an obscure form that I’ve decided to blame Robin for inventing, as I have done in the past.
This one is a Pensieve Original Creation, or POC.
The form: A Pensieve.
And it’s really, really [...]

June Poetic License

Friday, June 6th, 2008

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Robin keeps on making up poetic styles, and I keep on writing poems for them. That’s right, it’s time again for Pensieve’s Poetic License, a monthly poetry carnival for the criminally insane.
Oh wait, that’s not this one. PPL is for the mostly sane1.
This month’s theme is Diamante, [...]

Poetry Becomes a Family Affair

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Did you see my May Poetic License entry from last week? Did you see the comments? If not, you missed out. The Clerihew theme inspired some family contributions right in the comment section.
But fear not, because I’m going to post them all right here for your enjoyment. After you’ve read them, drop a comment here [...]

May Poetic License

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

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To quote Public Enemy: “Once again, back is the incredible.”
That’s right, it’s time once again for Pensieve’s Poetic License, the monthly poetry carnival designed to stretch one’s creaky poetic muscles.
This month, not only is the form one I’ve never done before, but I’ve never even heard of [...]

March Poetic License

Friday, March 7th, 2008

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It’s time again for Penseive’s Poetic License.
This month’s style is the limerick, which has an unintentionally funny section in the Wikipedia entry about how the only good limericks are the dirty ones:
“…from a folkloric point of view, the form is essentially transgressive; violation of taboo is part of its [...]

February Poetic License

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Want this button?Robin over at Pensieve has been doing a monthly poetry carnival for the past several months. Each month, she issues a theme and style, and gives us a couple of days to scamper off, write a poem, post it to our blogs, then share amongst ourselves on Thursday. As Robin says, it’s not [...]

Sonnet – A Poem

Monday, January 14th, 2008

From time to time, I plan to post some of the poetry, short stories and journal entries I’ve written over the years and that I feel are worth sharing. This is the second such entry. For the first, click here.
Today, I want to share a poem I first wrote about ten years ago. It’s been [...]

Without the Bumpers – A Poem

Monday, January 7th, 2008

From time to time, I plan to post some of the poetry, short stories and journal entries I’ve written over the years and that I feel are worth sharing. This is the first such entry.
Today, I want to share a poem I wrote in my journal one morning about two weeks ago. It’s been though [...]