Posted by Brad Osborne on January 22, 2021 · 9 Comments
Hay(na)ku is a simple poetic form, and it is also one of the newest.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 19, 2021 · 14 Comments
A rasher of rarified rumors, ruminations, and rants.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 15, 2021 · 14 Comments
The huitain is actually a derivative of the French ballade. In fact, it is a complete 8-line poem composed of one ballade stanza.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 12, 2021 · 14 Comments
A quilt of quintessential quaint quotes and quips.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 8, 2021 · 7 Comments
Some of you may have already guessed simply by the name, but the Hir A Thoddaid is a Welsh form.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on January 5, 2021 · 11 Comments
A prolific pool of powerfully prophetic pennings.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 29, 2020 · 15 Comments
A nurturing nest of necessary knowledge in notation.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 25, 2020 · 11 Comments
For the cascade poem, a poet takes each line from the first stanza of a poem and makes those the final lines of each stanza afterward. Beyond that, there are no additional rules for rhyming, meter, etc.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 22, 2020 · 12 Comments
A mob of meandering meanings and motivational musings.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on December 20, 2020 · 9 Comments
We laugh in the face of death, we own forever,
For we have been written down, long penned…
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