Tag: #sonnet
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NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 9: Is this love?
Today’s poetry resource is UbuWeb, a vast repository of the avant-garde. You could get lost for days among the films, audio recordings, PDFs of small press publications, and other oddities here. If you’re looking to have the top of your head screwed off (figuratively), check out the “365 Days Project.” Finally, here’s our prompt for the day…
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NaPoWriMo Day 16: Heavenly grace
This is my second take on the NaPoWriMo prompt (to write a curtal sonnet) for today. I used the rhyme scheme ABCABC DBDCC. After writing NaPoWriMo Day 16- Save the sunflowers on the current situation in Ukraine, I needed to write something lighter. How delicate must be the hand that created those dainty things?Fluttering eyelids in…
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NaPoWriMo : Day 27 – That time of year
And now for our (optional) prompt. Our video resource for the day promises to teach you everything you need to know to write a Shakespearean sonnet, but I’m not going to ask you to do that, exactly. Instead, I’d like to challenge you to “remix” a Shakespearean sonnet. Here’s all of Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can…
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NaPoWriMo: Day 9 – Confused
Day 9 of the National Poetry Writing challenge was to write a 9 line poem. I chose to write following the French version which is the Lai. The Lai and Virelai follows 5 syllable couplets a, a, separated by a 2 syllable line b. I got home late from work today and I just couldn’t give up…