Poetic Inspiration: Other People's Poems
I love reading poetry. Not only does reading poetry expands my poetic horizons, butI constantly find inspiration in other’s work. Sometimes the subject touches a chord, sometimes I want to try out a...
View ArticlePersona Poems
Gwendolyn Brooks Persona Poems Persona poems are poems that are written in a voice other than that of the author, where the author pretends to be someone else. The first one I wrote was in response to...
View ArticleLooking back on November: Poem a day
Again this year I participated in Robert Lee Brewer’s November Poem A Day challenge. The poems are supposed to form a chapbook, but I wasn’t aiming for that. I simply wanted to write poetry. My muse...
View ArticleUsing stanzas to enhance your poetry
A few months back, I took an online songwriting course with Pat Pattison. The course was given by http://www.coursera.org an organization that allows anyone to enroll in free, online,...
View Article"UFOs"
UFOs They call them UFOs, unfinished objects. Is there anything sadder than projects left half-done? Maybe its projects planned, not started? The kits still enclosed in plastic, paints unopened, canvas...
View ArticleI actually submitted some poems for publication and they were accepted
.. a couple of them, anyway. L Like many writers, I’d rather be writing, so I’m often lazy about submitting. Recently, however, I had two poems published. One I submitted and had accepted last fall,...
View ArticleA couple of poems about jokes, plus the jokes
Here are poem, but before you read it, here are the three jokes I mention: Mathematician, Physicist, and Engineer: In the high school gym, all the girls in the class were lined up against one wall,...
View ArticleA Night at the Opera
For some reason, yesterday I was thinking about recognizing a piece of music, and I realized that there are a goodly number of opera arias that I would have no trouble identifying, including many from...
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