Poem: "I Feel at Home with You"
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ysabetwordsmithThis is the second freebie, thanks to new prompter greghousesgf. It also fills the "I Feel at Home With You" square in my 1-1-23 card for the Public Domain Bingo fest.
"I Feel at Home with You"
-- an indriso
I feel at home with you, my heart and soul
Flung wide like spider silk across the sky
To span the gap between us, pole to pole.
We are two willows dancing, you and I,
Athwart a forest spread between us, whole
And green beneath the summer sun's keen eye.
The miles part us. Tears fall two by two.
Yet through it all, I feel at home with you.
* * *
Notes:
The indriso is a condensed version of a sonnet.
greghousesgf. It also fills the "I Feel at Home With You" square in my 1-1-23 card for the Public Domain Bingo fest."I Feel at Home with You"
-- an indriso
I feel at home with you, my heart and soul
Flung wide like spider silk across the sky
To span the gap between us, pole to pole.
We are two willows dancing, you and I,
Athwart a forest spread between us, whole
And green beneath the summer sun's keen eye.
The miles part us. Tears fall two by two.
Yet through it all, I feel at home with you.
* * *
Notes:
The indriso is a condensed version of a sonnet.
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Date: 2023-01-04 02:17 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-04 09:32 pm (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-04 10:51 pm (UTC)I've been considering playing with poetry for some of my bingo promos this month. I haven't written poetry since college unless you count haiku. I've experimented with those over the years.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-04 11:19 pm (UTC)Thanks.
>> I've been considering playing with poetry for some of my bingo promos this month. <<
Go for it! Poetry isn't difficult to write. Most people just aren't good at explaining how it works. I've had English teachers copy the poetry chapters out of my Pagan liturgy book for their classes, because they couldn't find a better explanation elsewhere. If you look on my Books Written page, the individual books have poetry worksheets with them.
>>I haven't written poetry since college unless you count haiku. I've experimented with those over the years.<<
Haiku is poetry, so that definitely counts. A bunch of yesterday's poems were either haiku, or longer poems with haiku verses.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-04 11:55 pm (UTC)Did you happen to see that little boy who is writing poetry. He was invited to read at an event, I think, for the NY governor. She saw him an open mike night.
I enjoy haiku. I do miss writing other forms, I'm just very rusty. I was looking-up poetry forms online and was disappointed at what I found. I'm really glad you linked me so I can check-out your book.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-05 12:15 am (UTC)You're welcome! That's on my main writing site, if you haven't seen that before, so there's a bunch of stuff out there -- the books, my poetry archive, the crowdfunding info section, etc.
>>Did you happen to see that little boy who is writing poetry. He was invited to read at an event, I think, for the NY governor. She saw him an open mike night.<<
I haven't seen that. The earliest of my poetry is in my parents' handwriting -- I started before I could actually write.
>> I enjoy haiku. I do miss writing other forms, I'm just very rusty. I was looking-up poetry forms online and was disappointed at what I found. <<
Oh, just look at the header for the January Poetry Fishbowl, I linked to form resources there. You do have to hunt around a bit. Ideally, a good form page will give you:
* a description of the form's purpose, history, and any common themes
* a letter guide to its rhyme scheme, if any
* a dash guide to its stress pattern, if any
* one or more example poems
Lewis Turco has put out three editions of his Book of Forms, which is the best paper guidebook I've found, though it's just the mechanics rather than examples. I have the first two editions. The third one is here:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Forms-Handbook-Poetics-dp-1584650222/dp/1584650222/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
A good how-to book is Creating Poetry by John Drury:
https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Poetry-John-Drury/dp/1582974632
>>I'm really glad you linked me so I can check-out your book.<<
I have three. There's a Pagan liturgy guide, a collection of nature poems, and a collection of science fiction poems.
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Date: 2023-01-04 05:56 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-04 09:50 pm (UTC)Form requests are valid prompts in any fishbowl or Creative Jam! Short forms are always welcome. I just make this the January theme because this month is always so packed for me.
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Date: 2023-01-08 05:53 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-08 06:02 am (UTC)