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Consonance

Posted by Brad Osborne on January 30, 2022 · 20 Comments

What hopeless and hapless dreams be pinned,
The wistful and wishful of wantings penned..

Filed under Poetry · Tagged with audible, connected, consonance, descriptive, linguistics, lyrical, phrasing, poem, poems, Poetry, rhythm, sounds, technique, word choices, wordplay

Reflected Words

Posted by Brad Osborne on August 2, 2021 · 16 Comments

Trickery in played part,
When East becomes West…

Filed under Poetry · Tagged with backwards, challenge, form, forward, meaning, mirror poetry, poem, Poetry, reflected, reverse, reversed, trickery, unique, wordplay, words

Consonance

Posted by Brad Osborne on June 6, 2020 · 22 Comments

What hopeless and hapless dreams be pinned,
The wistful and wishful of wantings penned..

Filed under Poetry · Tagged with audible, connected, consonance, descriptive, linguistics, lyrical, phrasing, poem, poems, Poetry, rhythm, sounds, technique, word choices, wordplay

Unedited

Posted by Brad Osborne on January 13, 2020 · 15 Comments

God forbid we ever be revised,
In the journey to masterpiece,
Polish is not needed in the least,
If perfection has been surmised.

Filed under Poetry · Tagged with art, collaboration, crafting, critique, editiing, judgement, masterpiece, perfection, poem, Poetry, revision, strict form poetry, wordplay, working together, writing

Allay

Posted by Brad Osborne on October 27, 2019 · 11 Comments

I think that you have heard me say
Rhyming ‘ee’ was not child’s play

Filed under Poetry · Tagged with a, humor, ode, poem, Poetry, repeated rhyme, repeating, repetition, rhyme scheme, singular rhyme, strict form poetry, wordplay

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