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| Site Picture Challenge March 18 |
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The Valley
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Write a poem about the picture you see above. Be sure to post it to the category Challenge-Picture. Have fun!
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| American Life In Poetry |
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Morel Mushrooms
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Those of us who have hunted morel mushrooms in the early spring have hunted indeed! The morel is among nature's most elusive species. Here Jane Whitledge of Minnesota captures the morel's mysterious ways.
Softly they come
thumbing up from
firm ground
protruding unharmed.
Easily crumbled
and yet
how they shouldered
the leaf and mold
aside, rising
unperturbed,
breathing obscurely,
still as stone.
By the slumping log,
by the dappled aspen,
they grow alone.
A dumb eloquence
seems their trade.
Like hooded monks
in a sacred wood
they say:
Tomorrow we are gone.
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Great Poetry
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Other than writing, and reading about the methods of poetry, what is the best way to both enjoy poetry and to learn more about it? By reading as much poetry as you can.
Our Great Poetry section contains over 1,000 poems by well-known and not so well known poets for your enjoyment!
You can search poems by both title and by author. So, the next time your muse leaves you high and dry, or if you just want to explore the fabulous variety of poetry in the world, then visit our Great Poetry archives today.
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| About Poetry |
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Publicizing Yourself
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How do you get yourself so well known that people will demand your work- editors, workshop conveners and the public? How is a reputation built, and sustained? One good way is through poetry contests.
Poetry doesn't differ from any other art that is currently in oversupply. There are no great secrets in winning poetry contests or other form of recognition.
Remember that you have to do the work, generally all of it. There are few or no literary agents for poets, and a first place or glowing review in a small magazine does not usually bring in the commissions, appearances or sales.
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| Poetry Writing |
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Landscape Exercise
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Go somewhere scenic - to a park or a lake, for example. Describe the landscape that surrounds you using sight, sound, smell, and tactile images. Build a lyric poem out of these images.
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Go somewhere urban - downtown Chicago or St. Louis, for example. Describe the landscape of the city using sight, sound, smell, and tactile images. Build a lyric poem out of these images.
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| Site Challenge March 18 |
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Write A Terzanelle or Villanelle
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Write a villanelle, or a terzanelle.
Villanelle:
A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.
Terzanelle:
A terzanelle is a poetry form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima. It is nineteen lines total, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. The rhyme scheme is as follows: Ending Type 1:fAFA'
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| Famous Poets |
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John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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John Keats's mother, brother, and good friend Richard Woodhouse all died of tuberculosis, which was then termed "consumption." He long suspected that he had the disease himself, and when on February 3, 1820, he had a severe hemorrhage of the lungs, he knew that he could not survive another English winter. Despite moving to Rome, he succumbed to "consumption" in the winter of 1821.
The realization that he was likely to die an early death gives poignancy to lyrics like "When I have fears that I may cease to be/ Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain" and "O for ten years, to overwhelm myself in poesy!" It also perhaps explains Keats's astounding productivity, for he did not start writing poetry until just a few years before he died.
The son of a liveryman, he was thoroughly working class, not the sort expected to have poetic aspirations. His mother, Frances (Jennings), remarried two months after his father's death in 1804 but left her husband soon after and died in 1810. After their grandmother's death four years later, the brothers were left alone.
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| About Our Poetry Site |
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