Tag: poetry forms
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“This Ring”
(my own photo of the moon in a blushing morning sky in Massachusetts) This was my first poem I’d written and published online in 2022: The first of form poems I tried to write this year is a ghazal, and it’s fit well with that form having originated in the Middle East during the medieval […]
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Happy Birthday, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 130 yrs!
Here’s a poem Edna St. Vincent Millay (b. 1892) wrote…from her book Collected Poems called “To Elinor Wylie.” It’s a series poem containing sections (six), full of sonnet and one in the middle. I read it aloud in the morning fog today on Edna’s birthday Feb. 22, 130 yrs earth. This sky of rose was […]
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Hear Edna St. Vincent Millay Read Her Own Poetry
Edna St. Vincent Millay in her private library upstairs at Steepletop, c. 1935 I didn’t even realize I could do that, until now! It was so incredible to suddenly hear Edna St. Vincent Millay reading her words aloud, a poet I’ve read and written of often, and I don’t even remember how I got to […]
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Finding Things You Already Had, A Runaway Sonnet: #2
It looks like a large, elegant old book, and it opens up for storage. I’ve started writing a new poem yesterday. Peeko loves to be a part of the creative process…Is that a hen, you may wonder? And now Peeko has a pen and his own separate page. As I began writing by hand, I’d […]
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Poet: Zeina Hashem Beck and Her Ghazal
Revision to this post with updated links, Mar. 11, ’22 Writing in form after a very long time was an invigorating challenge, especially a form I’d heard of and hadn’t yet written myself: a ghazal. I’d completed writing my very first one titled, ”This Ring.” I wanted to read others in this form. The subjects […]