Category: poetry

Monday Poetry

As I am so close to the finishing of The Voices Within…I decided to share older poems this week.

Monday Poetry

One new, one old. What are you writing?

Monday Poetry

Monday Poetry

Monday Poetry

Book Birthday 🎂

The random musings about life and writing in poetic form from a half mad poet. Buy yours here

Vacation and then what

Those who follow me probably noticed that I have been awol for a few days – nearly two weeks… That is because I went on a vacation. I visited my parents, my brother, and my son and his youngest son. The poem in the picture is one that I wrote as a child and my dad held onto. Next week I will be back to posting, and I am hoping to be back on track… But I wanted to enjoy the family time, as it is a rare beast.

Monday Poetry – Sestina Form Lesson

A sestina is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi.(Envoi or envoy in poetry is used to describe: a short stanza at the end of a poem such as ballad, used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. a dedicatory poem about sending the book out to readers, a postscript.) So you do 6 stanzas each 6 lines…then a short 3 line stanza at the end.

The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern. The video above shows the basics. (Found on one of the you tubers I follow about writing.)

The picture below gives a quick look at the ending rotations.

I am hoping that this is going to help you to write poetry yourself.