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Monday, July 13, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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Enjambment
Enjambment can add unique angles and double meanings to poetry that adds power to the content.
Simply defined, enjambment is a technique in poetry where a sentence or complete thought is carried over to the next line without pause.
Another way of explaining it that will add insight:
enjambment is a technique in poetry where a complete thought is physically interrupted by a line break, but the thought itself continues in the next line without pause.
There's nothing better than an example to illustrate a definition.
Perched on the tender
branch waving in the wind a
bird eats lice off itself waiting
for the morning worms.
Notice how the thoughts are enjambed or carried on in the next line without a pause. Each thought in the poem flows right into the next line and this also crams the independent thoughts together because it eliminates the natural pauses.
Let's take this same little poem and break it up differently to eliminate the enjambment and return it to its natural pauses.
Perched on the tender branch
waving in the wind
a bird eats lice off itself
waiting for the morning worms.
Can you see the difference? Immediately we find natural rests at the end of each line once we remove the enjambment. This also separated the individual thoughts and slightly changed the flavor of their meanings.
Enjambment can actually feel uncomfortable. It rushes us along through the poem, and it forces us to cram meanings together that do not usually go together.
But that is the beauty of it.
Enjambment can be used for more than just moving us along. It can actually infuse the poem with more meaning and deeper meaning, it can be used to send mixed messages, it can allow us to play on words in unique ways.
Here's an example of how the double meanings actually add more to the poetic language because of enjambment:
Crunching through fresh snow
out in the frigid icy air
numb and frozen fingers snapping
pictures extraordinaire
Aha! Did you catch the double meaning?
Is it that his frozen fingers are snapping from being so cold or that he is snapping pictures?
The actual complete thought is that he is taking pictures out in the cold. But the implication that his fingers are snapping added an element of how painfully cold this day is before we got to the continuation of the thought and found out he was merely snapping pictures.
Here is an example from one of my previously published poems called, They Were Me:
Where bottles shattered dreams
In the playground there,
Where asphalt meets chainlink fenced in
Sanity, in vanity, they were me.
The enjambment here actually occurs right in the middle of a word. The double meaning is left open ended.
Is it saying that the asphalt lot was fenced in by a chainlink fence?
Is it saying that the playground being fenced is insanity?
Is it saying that the sanity is fenced in?
It is actually saying all of these and more. Enjambment has instantly made the poetic language richer and added more meaning and mixed meanings.
Suppose we remove the enjambment, how would that change the meaning?
Where bottles shattered dreams
In the playground there,
Where asphalt meets chainlink fenced insanity
In vanity, they were me.
So, enjambment does not have to be used throughout an entire poem. It can be used in just a few select places for the right effect.
THE CHALLENGE: Write and post poems of any style and length and use the technique of enjambment at least once.
If possible, try to use it several times in each poem.
Or, just go for broke and write some floetry-- a long run-on poem that moves rapidly through a continuous flow of logic without pause right through to the end. We did a forum challenge on floetry last week. You can check it out if you need to.
Go for it.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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Page From The Past
This page appeared in the forum on year ago. It went out to seven pages of responses, it received 328 comments and 77 kudos and it ranked as the #2 blog in Writing and Poetry and #10 blog in All Categories. It was a wonderful day and perhaps we can recapture some if its excitement.
Please enjoy the . . .
One List Poetry Challenge Write and post one or more poems of any length, size, or style using any form of every word in the following list in each poem written: dig remains perplexed citadel incomplete sift gentle discover Push yourself to come up with something totally unique and different from your normal style. It will be interesting to see how VARIED the poems will be using the same list. Go all out and put everything you can into it. Remember to leave at least two responses to other posted work. Thanks.
End Page of Past New list for the present-- try poems with this list too:
stroll pages marvel monument shirk pick comfort renew
Have at it. Push those poetic muscles. Go for it. Share what you got. Please remember to interact with others. Thanks.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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THURSDAY
OPEN FORUM
IT'S PLAY DAY AGAIN
Display your work ~~ post responses.
Post whatever poetry you want to showcase here.
Front yourself, put your blog links here. Talk about anything related to poetry.
Suggested Challenge:
"On the road again . . ."
OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO Share about events, books, books for sale,
contests, challenges, ideas, or collabs.
Recommend reading for poets.
Tell us what you learned this past week.
Discuss your favorite forms or styles in mini-essays.
New folks tell us about yourself.
Make this an incredible interactive
poetry wordshop day.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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TIPS ON RHYMING
One thing to strive for is that the language of your poetry flows naturally and easily. Do not force language to make rhymes fit, or to make patterns fit. Forced phrases and constructs immediately stand out to the reader and detract from the poem.
Another noteworthy point is to avoid introducing new and/or unrelated concepts just to make a rhyme or construct work. Read your poems carefully and make sure everything works together for the common whole. Nothing should glaringly stick out (unless it is done on purpose for effect in the poem, in which case it is a completely different animal).
Following this point, be careful not to make unrelated concepts or ideas appear to fit into the poem by adding a phrase or two to "grease" them in. It will also be obvious and detract from the poem.
Another good idea in modern poetry is to avoid fancy contractions and/or archaic language to make rhymes or other constructs fit. These are usually considered weak and unless you can master them it will be obvious you are relying on them to rescue you from a sticky poetic situation.
These tips are not only good when it comes to rhyming. I have noted "other constructs" throughout the suggestions. So even if your poem has no rhyme scheme, remember to never force language to make anything in a poem work. Take time to craft your poetry together in such a manner that it feels like it couldn't be said any other way.
So, the bottom line is to avoid any kind of appearance in a poem of it being contrived. Poetry strives for the natural. You want your reader to feel like there is just absolutely no better way to say it than how you said it, and that it had to be said this way precisely.
CHALLENGE/EXERCISE
Give me some rhyming poetry, end rhyme or internal-- just rhyme it!
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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Two For Tuesday
OPEN
Do any one or all of the challenges or ignore it and post an open poem.
Challenge 1: Poetic Pairs. Give me two poems of yours that work well together, play off each other, oppose each other, complement each other, utilize a similar theme, or have some other connection. Post them together in the same comment.
Post poetic pairs as often as you like. Thanks.
Challenge 2: Collaborate with someone in the forum and as a pair, write a poem together-- make it a poetic pairr.
Challenge 3: Write a poem of all couplets (paired lines) .
That's it. What are you waiting for?
WRITE!
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Monday, July 06, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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The Power in Repetition
and Variation
Poetry relies on a fine balance between repetition and variation.
Poets can repeat key words, or phrases, or whole lines in a poem (called refrains) or even repeat certain sounds throughout. They can also repeat images that may be used in different ways to give a more rounded and varied picture, or to echo elements of the poem with added meanings.
Repetition must be used in a way that is impacting and does not lull the reader into a trance or to sleep. Too much repetition becomes redundant and/or monotonous and too much variation destroys a poem's intrigue and ability to capture and hold a reader.
When repetition is used in a poem, the goal is to find the balance between repetition and variation that holds the reader in a state of wakeful rest or relaxation. We want the reader to be alert and focused, but relaxed enough to allow the poem's suggestions to reach him or her.
Today, we are going to explore this use of internal repetition to emphasize and astound, but do it sparingly enough to avoid becoming redundant and monotonous.
Do one or more of the following challenges. You can post old poems that meet the criteria too.
CHALLENGE 1: Write and post poems of any style or length that repeat words, phrases, lines, images, or concepts in an effectual manner at various places in the poem to bring us back to a "base" to add meaning and emphasis. Do not repeat everything, just key elements.
CHALLENGE 2: Write and post poems of any style or length in which each line repeats one word from the previous line throughout the whole poem.
CHALLENGE 3: Write and post poems of any style and length in which the last line or the first line of every stanza is repeated, or a key line is repeated.
Have Fun!
Have Fun!
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Pride In Poetry Volume I
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Sunday, July 05, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
A Performance Oriented Forum Today
PLEASE COME AND ENJOY
Read the poetry, listen to the music, make the connections and just enjoy the entertainment value
If you are inspired to add to it, then go for it
The forum below was posted a couple days ago, but the mix of poetry and music was worth presenting for sheer enjoyment (in my opinion). So hang out, click the PLAY buttons >>> on the videos, read the associated poems or comments and enjoy.
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A Page From the Past
a new feature where we occasionally pull a page from a past forum
just as it was then and enjoy it now
NavWorks Press PoetryForum
Discovered or Found Poetry
How many people have heard of discovered or found poetry before?
This will be a very simple and fun exercise.
A found poem or discovered poem comes from words that you find written on common everyday items, but then you take your poetic prowess and apply it to the material and turn it into a poem.
Where do you find this written matter? Just about anywhere, such as the advertisements or information written on a matchbook, or the corner ad in a magazine, or on the cereal box, or a flyer you get on your car, or a short news clipping, or a tid bit of info from a web site, or a flyer from something shipped to you, or even a travel guide.
The possibilities are almost endless. And something that makes it more profound is if you have old printed matter, old magazines, old cans or boxes from household items, you can find some really interesting material for a found poem there.
Go search around your house or office for interesting printed matter of the sort described above. Once you have found some suitable material, you'll be writing a poem from it.
Here is a sample:
You bet
I want to make $100 a week
in spare time
showing shoes
you supply me.
Set me up
in the BIG MONEY
Shoe Business
by rushing me
FREE
and Postpaid
my powerful
Selling Out-
fit!
This includes
actual Air-
Cushion demonstrator,
features comfort
shoes
other fast-
selling specialties!
Send me
my kit
now
so I can start
making
money from
my first hour.
Robert Berner
From Poems Found on Matchbooks
DISCOVERED POETRY CHALLENGE
Get the creative juices flowing and go find those poems waiting to happen all over your house and office.
Trust me, go look and you will find some material that is begging to be a poem. Add your flair, your heart, your sentiment to it as well as your poetic skill, and come up with an intriguing poem.
Write it and post it. That simple.
I'm going to go look for new stuff myself and I'll post back here soon.
HAVE FUN!
End Page of the Past We have published a book featuring
a number of the poets discovered right here
in this poetry forum and we plan
to do another soon.
You can order this book
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Kudos help to promote the forum, so if you support us please leave kudos. The Wonder and Glory of Nature
Poetry about the natural beauty and wonder of our universe.
I will be gone camping for 4 days. Please keep posting poems about NATURE.
Dig deep and give me some good ones to read when I get back.
Let’s have a refreshing and relaxing 4 days enjoying nature (I will be for sure).
Any poem, any style, ABOUT NATURE (new or old). We are talking about the great outdoors here. NOT the nature of man or the inner nature, but the magnificent beauty of the universe and natural world around us.
We especially want poems about the wilderness, rivers, mountains, forests, canyons, mesas, deserts, lakes, glaciers, water falls, caves, shores, oceans, the atmosphere, space, the sun, sky, moon, earth, and all creatures great and small.
The beauty, the glory, the power, the immensity of all that was formed, made and created by Nature’s God awaits us.
Post as many poems as you like and leave plenty of comments for others. Enjoy. Side Challenge: Use a phrase from another poem posted in the forum as a prompt to write your own new poem. Mention where you got the prompt and who posted it so we all know. Thanks.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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Friday Party Time
Thank God it's Friday
Friday's are known for their party affiliation-- end of the work week-- time to let down-- let's go have a rip roaring time.
Write a PARTY poem.
No, not a political party.
Something that tells us about letting down, letting go, living it up, getting wild and crazy, going out with friends and having a good time.
CHALLENGE: Make it a party-- anything party themed good or bad-- funny or serious-- just live it up and celebrate all that is good in life.
 Yeah-- party over this:
We have published a book featuring
a number of the poets discovered right here
in this poetry forum and we plan
to do another soon.
You can order this book
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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It Is Your Day
You post something, you say something, you give us links, you share your page, you run the place---------- be nice,
AND
show me the poetry
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Kudos help to promote the forum, so if you support us please leave kudos. Poetic Preponderances Open Forum
Challenge: Post three very different poems (poems different from each other) and comment on at least three other posts.
[The following is an opinion piece originally written in response to an inquiry about self and certain kinds of poetry.]
Writing and poetry are arts and as with all arts and crafts or anything made with the hands and heart, there can be many reasons to do it.
Some people crochet just for themselves, or cook gourmet meals for their own therapy and enjoyment-- others do it to give to others and serve others. Some go the sales and marketing route and make supplemental income off their art or craft.
So it is with writing and poetry. You can do it for yourself or you can do it for others-- or a combination of both.
For many, writing is very therapeutic and they primarily do it for themselves-- for self-expression and introspection.
One great way to do this is in a journal or notebook. Write daily or when you feel like writing.
For most, writing is still therapeutic and exhilirating, but it is also something they do because they want to give it to others, they want others to read and enjoy their work, or to learn and be benefitted by it.
Many writers and poets keep a journal or notebook and write all kinds of stuff in it, some for themselves and some to later be shared with the general public. If you want to get really good at writing and crafting poetry, you have to write often-- daily, just keep doing it and doing it and you'll see growth and change in your writing-- then when you write a piece for public consumption, it has a lot of "practice" hours in it.
This forum is a wonderful "practice" place and it can also be a venue for testing and presenting some of your finished pieces. This makes it a poetry workshop, or as we call it, a poetry wordshop.
So, if you are serious about getting better-- just keep writing. Whether you write for expression and relief or to practice poetic skills, just keep doing it and you'll get better and better. Soon you will find pieces you want to share with the greater public, pieces you are proud of. It takes time. But don't be a perfectionist either-- just put it out there and keep growing.
Also, you do not have to expose your deepest inner self in your writing if you choose not to. You can make up scenarios or characters based on your personal experiences and express yourself that way.
Most of my poetry is not directly about me, but all of it is drawn from my experiences in life and who I am.
Also, your writing will naturally be a reflection of where your heart and mind are-- of where you are. If you are experiencing depression or if you have a negative and down outlook on life, that will express itself in your writing. But if you keep yourself of good cheer, if you are well balanced and able to handle the challenges of life with positive energy, then your writing will reflect that.
You determine who you are. Sure, there are variables, genetics, environment, skills, abilities, weaknesses, and on, but in the end, your tenacity to maintain who you want to be and where you want to go will make you who you are.
Thus, your reality will ultimately be whatever you have made it, and you can change your reality if you make it so.
There are many who write dark or gloomy poetry who say that they are just expressing reality and not seeing life through rose colored glasses. That's a nice excuse but I want to add that it is certainly not accurate. What they are actually doing is expressing their reality.
My reality is far different. I choose to live in the power of love, light, believing, attraction, and in the energy of my conviction-- thus, that is what I manifest in life and I draw success to myself because of my powerful attitude. My reality is the power of love and light-- I am filled with joy.
Does this mean I am never challenged. Absolutely not. I am challenged by the ups and downs of life as much as anyone-- but every challenge I face I consider to be an opportunity to grow, to get better, get stronger, and overcome. I expect success in everything.
Eventually, I always win. I may lose some battles along the way, but I always win the war and come out ahead.
There was a time in life that I was down and out, negative, dark, full of fear and disappoinment, always seeming to lose and to face insurmountable odds. And the poetry I wrote reflected that darkness and gloom. It was edgy and thrilling and a bit scary.
But I learned something from someone about this creation and the power I have in it and I changed my reality. Anyone can change their reality with the right information, the right power, the right impetus and the decision they make to do so.
Remember-- you will write who and what you are-- and if you hate hearing that your stuff is depressing and gloomy, then change who and what you are and you will soon find yourself in a new mode of living and writing.
If you can find the book As A Man Thinketh by James Allen, I recommend you devour it wholly. It will change your life if you decide. I have a .pdf version on my computer. I'll send it to you if you want. It is a public domain book. Email me and request a copy. If you don't know my email, go to www.cozyword.com and find it.
As far as audience, you will find that your readership is based on what manifests in what you write. People who love dark poetry that magnifies the doom and gloom of life will probably not like my poetry at all, or very little. No big deal. I cannot please everyone, but I please the audience I care to please. I aim more for those who want to be inspired, uplifted, and who want to see that life's challenges can be overcome. I am glad there are others who have different opinions. Life is a variety. We cannot all be the same nor do we want to be. That would be horrible.
Sometimes I do utilize a dark theme. I am practiced enough to write dark poetry that ends with hope, success, or victory and yet still keep it edgy enough and raw enough to capture the essence of dark poetry.
Occasionally I may even write about a dark theme of life. Afterall, darkness does exist in this world and I don't act like it doesn't-- I just don't revel in it. I like exposing darkness and exposing the folly in it and where it always leads-- to death and destruction, which is not alluring to me.
To this point in life, this is what I have found in my poetic voice and style. It is a reflection of me as it should be.
Your poetry will be a reflection of you. As you look at the body of your own work, what do you see? What are the major themes? What do you magnify? What things do you relish? Do you write about deep inner thoughts or about experiences in life?
You can learn much about yourself by your own words and preoccupations. Assess who and what you are and what you reflect and determine if you like it. If not, make adjustments, change some of the things you focus on and think about and become the you that you always wanted to be.
Keep on writing-- you will find your balance. But most of all, enjoy what you do and keep reading. Develop a great love of reading other poetry. And be well read in other areas too. It is really the greatest fuel to your own poetry and writing. Too often we get so riveted on our own words and what we write that we fail to develop ourselves in that which will make us all better poets and writers-- reading, reading, reading.
I love reading all poetry of every kind, light or dark, everything in between and then something totally different. May I suggest our poetry book, Between Life and Language. It is really a diverse collection of all different kinds of poetry and yet it is all readable, enjoyable, and well done. You will benefit to read it and devour it again and again and I guarantee it will be fuel to your writing and poetry.
So there is your guarantee. If it does not fuel your writing and poetry I'll buy it back. Really. I'm that confident in its excellence. You just have to get it and see for yourself. Ask those who have it. It is as good or better than any poetry anthology out there.
So whether you decide to get our book or not, keep reading and developing yourself. Take a look at what you write to see who you are and what you reflect. Make decisions to move in the directions you want. And always keep reading and writing, writing, writing.
We have published a book featuring a number of the poets discovered right here in this poetry forum and we plan to do another soon.
You can order this book from any bookseller worldwide or just click on the book cover below for more info.
"Know that you can set your world on fire if you are strong enough to leave your doubts." Kerli
Check out the music video at the link below.
a different kind of community
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Kudos help to promote the forum, so if you support us please leave kudos. Literary Snobbery
and
Who Stole Poetry from the People?
A while back, I had a run in with the Poetry Police. I got pulled over for excessive adjectives. The officer liked my poem but wrote me a ticket for too many adjectives. He said it was necessary if I wanted to be a serious poet.
Bahhhhh! I had to laugh. Which I guess confirmed that I am not a serious poet, but a seriously lighthearted one!
In response to my poem, Symphonic Forest, the gentleman wrote this:
Essentially, I like this poem. However, it gets bogged down and diluted a bit with the use of too many adjectives. Wordiness might be forgiven, given the nature of a symphonic score in terms of notes. But the thing about telling rather than showing is that it leaves very little space for the reader to expand his/her participation in the art of reading poetry.
The comment itself wasn't necessarily that bad and I really wasn't offended. I have received far sharper criticisms of my work than this. In addition, I happen to be an avid and dedicated student of everything poetry, so I am well aware of the "book" and "scholarly" and "conventional" recommendations of eliminating adjectives from all writing, prose and poetry, and using a technique called "show don't tell." So I know exactly where he was coming from, and how such admonitions are also often taken to extremes by zealous writers and misapplied.
So fair enough, I made my response:
Thanks for essentially liking my poem and commenting on it.
I disagree with you on the adjectives. The number of all adjectives and adverbs together is 18, and all the nouns and verbs together are 55.
Most of the 18 adjectives and adverbs used are specifically needed, such as the numbers and time and place modifiers that clarify and detail information that cannot be shown. However, the gerunds ("-ing") words should probably be eliminated. In my opinion the rest of the poem is saturated in strong nouns and verbs that more than compensate.
adjectives/adverbs: million, fluttering, thousand, throatier, untold, dried, last year's, across, littered, falling, outside, unseen, marvelous, resonant, daily, reverberating, nature's, meticulous, [18] (two are even nouns in possessive case used to modify) [across is really a preposition but it is used to modify so I included it]
nouns: leaves, rhythm, wind, backdrop, cheeps, twitters, caws, howls, numbers, insects, violins, wings, bows, legs, air, trees, frogs, seeds, pods, weeds, rustle, paws, leaf, twig, floor, limbs, logs, earth, rat-a-tat-tat, pecker, cooing, mourning doves (full name noun), symphony, crescendos, Maestro, spite, man [37]
verbs: sway, play, buzz, whirr, whine, hum, bend, croak, shake, rattle, lost, rush, clack, thud, meet, resounds, composed, conducted, [18]
All was fine, until I got a response from him. I'm not going to get into the drama of reposting his private messages, but I will summarize the gist of them.
He was upset that I thought 18 modifiers to 37 nouns was not excessive. He noted he was nonplused, and then asked if we were a forum of fluff or a serious writer's tool. By his questions he implied we tell each other our stink smells like roses and that it is not beneficial to the art of poetry.
That generated this private response which I think is beneficial to share with all. And I have a right to share it because it is, after all, my own response:
I am terribly sorry for any confusion or misunderstandings about the forum. As the moderator of the forum I encourage an honestly positive and non-threatening environment for people to grow in the art and craft of writing poetry by having a place they feel comfortable to share without being attacked.
This does not mean that we tell someone who can hardly spell, or who uses trite constructions or awkward phrases to force rhymes, that their stuff is as great as Frost, Cummings, Snodgrass, or James Wright, Louise Gluck, Stephen Dunn, Mary Jo Bang, Heather McHugh, Ted Kooser, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin and on.
But we do not jump all over their shit and point out all their inadequacies-- rather we look for the heart of the art in what they did, we appreciate their outpouring and their effort and note the things that they did right in the poem. Nobody is under the illusion that their stuff is considered tops in the poetry world.
So this is NOT a critical forum, it is an open exchange where people can practice and learn in a positive environment. If folks want deeper analysis and to have weaknesses and errors pointed out to them, then they send me or others in the forum private requests and we do that privately.
MANY of the folks who share on the forum had given up on writing and reading poetry for years because of some hard-assed teacher or due to some highly critical comments that devastated them. Now [because of the NavWorks forum] they are writing and growing in the craft and enjoying poetry more because of the freedom and non-critical nature of what we do.
You and many others will disagree with this method of learning and growth-- that's fine, I disagree with you and them. I disagree with many things that "THEY" hold to be proper and correct in poetry.
Who are "THEY" anyway? The intellectual elite of the literary world? Aloof college professors?
Poetry has suffered and fallen out of favor with the people because literary snobbery took over the art and made it untouchable and esoteric. I'm part of a movement of poets and poetry for the people, for those who once again just want to enjoy sounds, language, word-textures, beats and cadences, word-art in poetry and on.
Of course we teach all the classical and traditional elements of poetry-- it is foolish to reinvent the wheel-- but we put no constraints on anyone as to what is or is not a proper poem.
Some will say we do a disservice to poetry. Hooey-- I say they do a disservice to poetry by being traditional hardasses and intellectual snobs. They have turned off millions to the art. People hate poetry because it is not fun, it is difficult, esoteric, and out of touch.
We are promoting "poetry and the writing arts" in English world-wide as an independent press. We are reaching the people-- the people who love poetry and want to be a part of a poetry movement that can be understood and enjoyed.
There will be some pretty bad poems and even atrocious attempts at poetry in the forum at times, and then there are the brilliantly crafted pieces that merit attention and praise-- and these are pointed out and all the strong elements in them and why.
Then other's learn by seeing the good examples, by seeing what gets a lot of positive attention and praise and they realize what they need to do to get better. Everyone is seeking to get better, reach higher standards. This is a much better motivator than seeking to avoid criticism.
That's just our way. It may not be yours. No problem, please enjoy the art of poetry at whatever level you choose to-- this is how we choose to enjoy the art and craft of poetry and to promote it worldwide.
Thank you for your time.
NavWorks Press
His response was even more livid-- in which he claimed that forums like ours are the reason for the "lost art of poetry" and that this is the reason he receives "emails from illiterate people claiming to be poets." He compared poets to rocket scientists-- that a rocket scientist has to pass certain standards to be considered a rocket scientist and so should "real" poets.
Here is a pared down version of the response I posted in response to all this:
I have communicated privately to him about what I think of the literary snobbery that does a great disservice to the true heart of poetry because of their hardline stances on certain "conventions" that I not only disagree with but that I stand against.
Intellectual and literary snobbery stole the art of poetry away from the people and we are a movement of people taking poetry back as an art form to be shared and enjoyed amongst the people in open forums like it used to be ages ago before it was hijacked. The stuff we share here in the forum is the heart of poetry and it's still beating.
The folks who sat in pubs, clubs and cafés and performed their poetry like we are doing again today did not send it through some literary perfection and acceptance process where it could be signed off by the intellectual elite who were in control of what poetry is or is not supposed to be.
Some of my favorite poems, the most well beloved of ages, widely published and shared around the world, DEFY and BREAK the modern rules of poetry time and again.
WHY? Because what mattered was the heart and presentation of the poem and if it worked with a few extra adjectives, then damnit, it worked, okay. Accept it and enjoy it-- quit analyzing it to shreds and making it untouchable to the comman man and woman.
We are poetry, life is poetry-- it will express itself as it finds manner to do so.
So I got the bright idea of selecting one of the poets noted above and finding one of their popular poems and breaking it down the same I did mine, into adjectives, adverbs, nouns and verbs just for fun and to see how well they would match up to the exacting standards of the Poetry Police. And so I used the first well known poem I came across.
Here is the poem with its amazing breakdown:
The Back Door
The door through which we step out
into the past is an easy push,
light as the air, a green screen door
with a sagging spring. There's a hook
to unhook first, for there have been
incidents: someone has come up
out of the past to steal something good
from the present. We know who they are.
We have tried to discourage them
by moving from house to house,
from city to city, but they find us
again and again. You see them coming
sometimes from a long ways off —
a pretty young woman, a handsome man,
stepping in through the back garden gate,
pausing to pick the few roses.
adjectives/adverbs: easy, light, green, sagging, first, good, again, again, sometimes, pretty, young, handsome, back, few [14]
nouns: door, past, air, screen door, spring, hook, incidents, past, present, house, house, city city, woman, man, garden gate, roses [17]
verbs: step, push, unhook, steal, know, tried, discourage, moving, find, see, coming, stepping, pausing, pick [14]
He also used a ton of non-specific pronouns, lot's of prepositions, and some weak verb cases (have been, has come).
That's a worse ratio than in my poem Symphonic Forest. Who is this "miserable" poet who has defied convention and the Poetry Police so much as to use all this weak and ineffective verbiage in his poetry? How can he claim to be a poet? He has not met the "rocket science" standards. Look at all the TELLING he does and so little showing. Surely this is some back alley piece by an illiterate person claiming to be a poet.
Who is this poet?
Born in Ames, Iowa, in 1939, TED KOOSER is one of Nebraska's most highly regarded poets and the country's newest Poet Laureate of the United States. He earned a BS at Iowa State University in 1962 and the MA at the University of Nebraska in 1968. He is the author of ten collections of poetry and winner of the 2001 Nebraska Book Award for poetry. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. His poems appear regularly in textbooks and anthologies currently in use in secondary schools and college classrooms across the country. Among other awards and distinctions he has received two NEA fellowships in poetry, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize, The James Boatwright Prize, The Society of Midland Authors Prize (twice), and a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. His most recent book is Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon Press, 2004), winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He teaches as a Visiting Professor in the English department of the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.
Ladies and gentlemen-- case closed.
You are a poet.
Write on!
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Challenge 1: Write or post anything inspired by Ted Koosers' fantastic poem above. Use a line or his title for inspiration.
Challenge 2: Share some short poetry-- do the challenge above or write on any topic in 40 words or less.
Challenge 3: Any new Haiku or Senryu out there?
Thank you all~~ you are the BEST!
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Monday, June 22, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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Odd Line Poetry
Here's something different-- let's do some "odd line poetry." That means, poetry with an odd number of lines.
The challenge is to write and/or post various poems that fit the "odd number of lines" criteria. This includes various forms of 3, 5, 7 and 9 line poems.
3 lines
Write and/or post Haiku or Senryu.
5 lines
Write and/or post cinquains.
7 lines
Write and or post eintou.
The Eintou (en-too) is an African-American form consisting of a single stanza or multiple stanzas of septets (seven lines each) with a syllabic or word count of 2-4-6-8-6-4-2.
When center aligned, this tends to give the poem a rounded shape which is intentional to its meaning. The word eintou comes from the West African Yoruba language, where it means pearl, and we know a pearl is rounded. The Eintou is a pearl both in the literal and figurative sense.
Literally the poem is rounded just as the beautiful and precious spherical object that results as a consequence of internal agitation of a foreign particle. And figuratively, the poem should present some "pearl of wisdom."
Anyone can borrow this form to write a poem that reflects a pearl of wisdom or insight born out of social adversity or the challenges of life.
The compact form of a single Eintou requires a brevity of expression and a controlled speech that focuses on symbolism, metaphors, and turns of speech. It endeavors to move away from imagery and narration favoring a series of central emotions and themes.
The Eintou often seeks to provoke a response out of deep thought and reflection in the reader by its use of vivid sensory and reactionary language. Here is an example of a singular Eintou.
Eintou on Eintou
Eintou
has the bones of
syllables and line count,
but the flesh is something different;
to each their creation,
louder then, with
power.
-Britton Stockstill [(c)copyright Britton Stockstill] 9 lines Write and/or post a topograph poem (regular style).
The topograph was exclusively born and developed in the NavWorks Press Poetry Forum and is a favorite here.
The topograph has also gained some attention and acceptance on other community poetry sites such as Yahoo360 and WDC, and in other blogs.
The topograph is a form that does not rely on words or syllables, but on lines. It increases in number of lines and then decreases. On a topographic map, elevations are noted by lines. The single line is the lowest elevation and as you gradually move in toward the peak, the lines on the map get closer together or more dense. Likewise with the topograph poem.
The first stanza is a single line, the second stanza is a couplet, the third stanza is three lines (a tercet), then the fourth is back to a couplet and the fifth stanza is again a single line. So the line pattern is 1-2-3-2-1 (remember, these are lines, not words or syllables).
The topograph can be written any style-- short lines, long lines, rhyming, non-rhyming, metered or not. The poet has great freedom in applying his or her particular unique approach to the topographic form.
There are some interesting variations that have developed over time, the bookend topograph where you "bookend" the poem by making the single first line and the single last line the same, or nearly the same. The mirror topograph in which the poem can be read both forward or backward to the middle line in a mirror image-- that is-- it reads the same both ways. This is an intricate poem extrememly difficult to pull off.
Another variant is the extended topograph where instead of only going "up" to a tercet (three lines) for the middle stanza, you go up to a quatrain (four lines), or "super-extend" to a cinquain (five lines).
Another variation instead of extending is doubling, or tripling, making a chain topograph. Two stanzas are called a twin peak topograph, three would be a triple peak topograph, and on. To do a multiple topograph you simply write two topographs together, but the middle line is a shared single line, thus the line pattern is 1-2-3-2-1-2-3-2-1.
The topograph form has proven to have incredible versatility and you will amaze yourself how it builds and tapers naturally having a unique symbiotic effect on your inspired writes. Hope you try it yourself and if you find an interest in it possibly thinking of getting the word out about it and spreading it far and wide. It would be an honor to us if you decided to share this form with all your friends and fellow poets.
The following topograph is an example of what can be done with this form. ~ ~ ~
Blossoming Love
In full bloom we had so much going
But the summer of our love wore on
and you dried up and went to seed
I took that gift and cherished it
laid you to rest in my secret garden
and waited out the icy hard winter
Spring came and so I tilled in hope
planted with my heart, watered in tears
New love opened in full glorious bloom.
©2008-2009 NavWorks Press and DE Navarro. All Rights Reserved.
Enjoy making your topographs.
THAT'S IT ~~ POST SOME SHORTIES!
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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Exceptional Word List Challenge/Exercise
Without words we do not truly have poetry, for although poetry's power and impact goes beyond words, the words are actually required to communicate the thoughts that give a poem life, power, and vivacity. Anyone serious about mastering the art and craft of poetry will have to get serious about words, word usage, language art, sounds, and vocabulary.
This doesn't mean that a poet must become a scholar or English major. It just means that a poet must have a passion for words and language. We need poets who are as passionate about the street language, subcultural lingos, or common speech as there are poets who are passionate about proper English and academia.
Poetry must express all of life and neither scholarly poets nor street poets have any right to criticize the other's choice of passionate expression. We should rather support each other and promote poetry and the writing arts together.
So today we are going to have some fun exercising with language, with words, by crafting "word-list poems" from the prompts supplied.
In a sense, this is a focused topic exercise and we are going to see how many different poems can come out of the same nine words (and variations).
Strive for unique ways of using these nine somewhat common words (and variations).
Ready for them? Here they are.
garner
disentangle
grapple
ascertain
flow
enjoin
differentiate
flee
supply
What do I mean by variations?
For example, you could use "gather" for "garner" and "determine" for "ascertain" or "spill" for "flow." You can get more specific like "river" for "flow" or "golf match" for "grapple." To "flee" might become to "vanish" or to "run in terror."
Dream it up-- make it live.
Be unique.
Shoot for short to medium poems and make your words count.
If your inspiration demands a longer poem then go for it!
Have at the list. Please try a few different poems from this list today.
And if you are isnpired to write something new that doesn't quite fit the parameters, so what, post it anyway. Just have fun, okay.
See ya around the forum. Thanks for making it great.
Let's keep inviting folks and building the forum. As we work together, we can continue to build the community and that is good for the individual because it means more people to read and comment on your stuff as well as more people to post stuff for you to read and enjoy.
It's a win win!
Now get busy crafting those incredible poems-- I can't wait to read them.
Write away.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
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Category: Writing and Poetry
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TITLES:
Their Importance &
Ideas for Crafting Titles
How important are titles? Well, consider this: 1) over 90% of all poems bear titles, 2) titles are the first thing a reader sees, 3) the title contains the first words a poet uses to make an impression, set a mood, engage a reader, and on, and 4) a poem will be referred to and remembered mostly by its title.
With titles being this important, it behooves the serious poet to give some time and thought to getting better at crafting successful titles. It is not hard to increase this skill, it just takes some time and practice.
If you think of a title as only a title and not important, then that is what it will be in your poetry-- an unimportant tag of reference to your poem. But if you think of the title as an actual part of the poem and a dynamic way to engage the reader in your poem, then that is what it will become. You will put thought into using your title to engage the reader, to put the reader in a frame of mind, to thrust a reader into your poem or to set a mood, a tone, or an attitude.
Titles run the full gamut in poetry. A title can be quite invisible and just "grease" the reader or "slide" the reader into the poem unnoticed. A title may draw attention to itself and stop a reader, cause a reader to give pause before continuing into the poem. A title can be generic and matter-of-fact, or it can be intrinsically unique and flamboyant, or somewhere in between.
Titles can be flashy, clever, functional, intriguing, explanatory, oppositional, perplexing, distressing, placating, agitating or calming just to name some of the things they can be and do. Titles may be omitted all together, often causing the first line of the poem to act, in part, as a title or lead in for the missing title. I have even seen some poets put the title at the END of the poem, almost as if the title then becomes the "afterword" or "post script" to the poem.
Some poets prefer to craft long titles that may be poetic in themselves. Others prefer the one-word title that launches the reader right into the poem without much forethought. The one-word title is also good when a poet wants a reader to to have a wide open landscape in which to make an "assumption" about the poem before finding out what it is really all about. Thus, the title works as sort of a vague primer.
A poet can actually even mislead a reader by way of the title and build a false expectation on purpose so that some other thing may later be revealed that surprises, tricks, connects, explains, or works in some other way off the title.
No matter the type or style of title crafted for a poem, it must in some way be inviting to the reader, even if it is purposefully obtrusive or offensive, it is inviting because the curious reader may want to find out why it is obtrusive or offensive. So a title can be a great determinant in the "audience" of a poem. If a title is sentimental, it may lose readers who avoid sentimentality and choose rather to go for deeper and more esoteric stuff. A title that is sensual or explicit may lose readers who wish to avoid such content.
So in crafting a good title the poet needs to keep in mind what will interest a reader and draw a reader into the poem. In the very least, a title should not be an obstruction (lest it is the poet's purpose for some reason).
In crafting a title, the poet must clarify for themselves what they intend to accomplish in the title, such matters as: 1) should the title be descriptive of the topic, 2) should the title set a mood, attitude, tone, 3) should the title flow with the poem or seem to stand against it in some clever way, 4) should the title be a part of the poem or a silent lead in, 5) should the title be a key line or phrase in the poem thereby reinforcing a central point or climax, 6) should the title reveal a clue that makes the rest of the poem make sense, 7) should the title seem to not fit and require deep thought and pause for a reader to make a connection, 8) should the title be simple or complex and full of poetic sound and devices in itself?
In all, a poet must choose what kinds of titles they want for their poems. A certain regular style of title may be a poet's trademark. Other poets may use a great variety of types and styles of titles. Each poet will benefit from taking the time to discover and determine what types of titles they tend to use and then working to apply some of the ideas above to strengthen what they want their titles to be and to do for their poetry.
Some poets come up with a title and then write an entire poem from it. Others may write a poem and then later figure out what to title it. Some titles come clear when a poet is half-way through writing a poem, they then slap it at the top, and go back and continue writing the poem.
However a title is arrived at, a poet must make sure that it adds to the poem and helps complete it in some way-- else why is it there?
CHALLENGES/EXERCISES:
1) Sit down and come up with an idea first and craft a title. Work on the title itself until you are satisfied. Now, write a poem that proceeds, evolves, spirals out from, or is launched from that title. Post it in the forum.
2) Write a poem with no title in which the first line serves as the title and post it. Make the first line engaging and worthy of "seconding" as the title.
3) Write a poem that might not make much sense or would lose some of its sense if it did not have the title you give it. In other words, the title would be critical for the correct understanding of that poem. post it.
4) Just have some fun writing poetry and give special thought and attention to the title as outlined in the lesson above.
Enjoy exercising and increasing your skills with titles in poetry.
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