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Hello Dear Ones!
Two years ago today, on the Sunday of Canada’s Victoria Day long weekend of 2009, I stepped onto the retreat grounds of Queenswood and an incredible journey began … leading me to write my first book:
It has been – and is still [...]
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Lots of poetry to share with you today and I’ve decided to include two apophysis pics for you as well!
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If I submitted a tweet for every haiku I write, everyone who follows me would see my smiley-faced avatar umpteen times a day. It also means I’d not have time to do much other than write haiku and enter tweets in to Twitter! I tweet enough [...]
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An dear e-friend and great micropoet through Twitter: Tina Nguyen has recently inspired several of us to get into a more extended style of Haiku – known as Gogyohka:
Gogyohka is a new form of Japanese short poetry, founded and pioneered by Japanese poet Enta Kusakabe. [...]
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Belief and Inspiration are my topics of choice this week. Starting with the theme of Belief (with more than a mere undertone of Inspiration within it!) , from a web search I found a sweet link to the following :
BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART
Author: Unknown
Believe in [...]
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Recently I read a wonderfully crazy poem – a love poem – beautifully crafted and very unique. WoW! I’ve seen poems with weird rhyming patterns, but this one has to take the first prize on the bizarre scale. (This great poem is inset at the end [...]
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Seems that micropoetry (#micropoetry in the Twitter world!) is happily becoming a new past time for me. Short poems, haiku and senryu are all the rage with the folks I follow and who follow me. I wrote about this topic two weeks ago. If you missed that post [...]
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I awoke inspired to inspire!
My intention today is to assist us all in removing the stereotypical structures that we have been rigidly taught. “Poems should be 4-line stanzas.” “Poems must rhyme.” “There are only so many styles of poetry and one must adhere [...]
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Years ago I bought myself a small spiral notebook and pen to keep in my purse. (BTW: Today, the notebook in my purse is about the 25th such writing journal.) On the very back page of this notebook I began jotting down different topics as they [...]
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Poetry, for me, is a way of expressing amazement of, for and at life. There was a time when I was in my teens (a few years ago ) when my life seemed filled with angst. My poetry reflected that time and pain in my life. I am so grateful [...]
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