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It’s good to exercise the composition muscles. Today’s challenge at Poetic Asides is to title a poem as “All I want is ______”. I added a second constraint for myself of doing it as a reversing Fib. All I want is more tad titch smidgen of excess to push back wall scrapes. exponential growth is […]

Waiting for my order to come, I ended up using a gift coupon and buying other things to hold me over. Never mind the 2 library books I haven’t finished, or the 7 owned books I am actively reading, or the 1 other from a friend that I’m reading, the pile reshuffles, again. Li-Young Lee’s […]

To expand and apply from yesterday’s examination of how Yeats did that complex structure of rhythm, rhyme, semantics and argument, I have a response to the Day 15 challenge to the exercise to change the title of a poem and respond to it with a poem. One can stick as closely as one likes. [I […]

How not to write Iambic pentameter is as much about how not to write it by Patrick Gillespie. He starts with purple prose and plays with the materials…I like this. He tears things back to base ideas, building blocks. An idea isn’t too precious to mess with. Edits are substantive yanks. This I can grasp. […]

for OSI: Water Prompt a rearrangement of words of another poem. rock squints a mica wink azure is to each as far. the blue in the while  is in each, wild waves beneath. sun unfolds ray of air-immersed beauty. breathing a life coil they touch whisper the ocean, sky neither impossible.