Ok...here's the deal. Since it is National Poetry Month (NPM), I am going to try to put up a different poetic form daily (except weekends...I gotta rest sometime!). Most likely if there is a body of work attached to the definition...it's NOT MINE. It's the example that came with the definition. We all claim to be poets/wordsmiths/respecters of the literary and/or spoken word, but some of us (including myself) don't know at least a quarter of the different forms out there. So this serves as an educational tool for all of us (especially me) so that maybe...somewhere down the line, we can all be the most powerful poets/wordsmiths we can be. It doesn't hurt to know this stuff if you end up working in the literary world (especially poetry) either. Peace
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There is so much I can say about you sistah. I was at a reading in Baltimore and met Tif and Micki. So big up's to you in D.C. hey knowledge becomes power only when used...keep the power, by sharing the Love and information. ASIEM "Kuun fiyah Kuun" Quran (Be and it is) " A writer takes his pen to write the words again that all in love is fair" Stevie Wonder checkout this site http://4luvofpoetry.com
"keep pennin till the earth birth's your rightful seed then nurture it wit more ink..." ASIEM "Kuun fiyah Kuun" Quran (Be and it is) " A writer takes his pen to write the words again that all in love is fair" Stevie Wonder
I think we on the board aren't generally concerned enough with understanding form and prefer to think of the whole concept of rules as outmoded because we are "different."
I'm down. I'm in. I'm in awe that you undertook the task.
"Dazed and confused for so long it's not true/Wanted a woman, never bargained for you/Lotsa people talking, few of them know/The soul of a woman was created below."
Something like Eldridge Cleaver meets John Lennon
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