Denise E Lindquist
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I am married with 7 children, 28 grands, and 13 great-grandchildren. I am a culture consultant part-time. I write A Poem a Day in February for 8 years now. I wrote 4 - 50,000 word stories in NaNoWriMo. I write on Vocal/Medium daily.
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The Warrior
Live Your Life, by Chief Tecumseh So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Allergies, Oh Me!
The rondel supreme is a French poetic form with the following guidelines: 14-line poem broken into three stanzas. First two stanzas have four lines and final stanza has six lines. Rhyme scheme: ABba/abAB/abbaAB (capital letters are refrains). No restrictions on syllables or subjects. Writer’s Digest, Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Poetry Heals
The viator is a poetic form invented by Robin Skelton, author of The Shapes of Our Singing. The rules are fairly simple: The first line is a refrain: The refrain appears as the second line of the second stanza, third line of the third stanza, and so on for however many stanzas the poem has… with the final line of the final stanza being the refrain. That’s it! Writer’s Digest, Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Oops.. Merry Christmas!
This Quatern poem has 16 lines broken up into 4 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas). Each line is comprised of eight syllables. The first line is the refrain. In the second stanza, the refrain appears in the second line; in the third stanza, the third line; in the fourth stanza, the fourth (and final) line. There are no rules for rhyming or iambics. Writer's Digest, Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Attending Our Granddaughter's Dance Recital.
The strambotto traces back to the 13th century. This Italian form known as ottava siciliana (Sicilian octave) or strambotto popolare was the preferred form in Southern Italy, while strambotto toscano was more popular in Tuscany [hat tip to Edward Hirsch's A Poet's Glossary]. Today strambotto toscano is known as ottava rima. Here are the basic rules for strambotto: Octave (8-line) poems or stanzas, Hendecasyllabic (or 11-syllable) lines, Rhyme scheme: abababab Alternate version: There's also a six-line variant form (still called strambotto) with hendecasyllabic lines and an ababab rhyme scheme. Writer's Digest, Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Age Fifty-Five to Sixty-Nine
The triolet first line of the poem repeats as the fourth and seventh line, and the second line repeats as the last. The rhyme scheme of a triolet is ABaAabAB (the capital letters indicate the repeated lines). This means there are only two rhymes in the entire poem. The lines can be any length and meter you wish, as long as they are all the same length and meter. Some use iambic tetrameter, which is four beats (stressed syllables) per line, usually of eight syllables. Published in The Writing Cooperative, Esther Spurrill-Jones
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
A French Meal
The virelai is a French poetic form with alternating rhymes and line lengths. Here are basic guidelines: + nine lines per stanza, + lines one, two, four, five, seven, and eight have five syllables + lines three, six, and nine have two syllables + the five-syllable lines rhyme with each other and the two-syllable lines rhyme with each other to make the following rhyme pattern: aabaabaab + the end rhyme for the short lines continues on in the following stanza + the final stanza’s short-line end rhyme should be the same as the long-line end rhyme in the opening stanza (to complete the end-rhyme circle) Note on stanzas: This form can contain as few as two stanzas to infinity (if you could write that many). Writer’s Digest, by Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
A Woman Murdered
A Poetic Asides member shared a poetic form she created. I’m introducing Candace Kubinec’s form, the Waltmarie. Here are the guidelines for writing the Waltmarie: 10 lines, Even lines are two syllables in length, odd lines are longer (but no specific syllable count), Even lines make their own mini-poem if read separately, No other rules for subject or rhymes. Writer’s Digest, Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Writing 50,000 Words
Zappai poems are like haiku, but not. Or maybe more appropriately, they’re like senryu, but not (or maybe they are). Zappai are poems that have a 5–7–5 syllable pattern that do not contain the seasonal reference expected of haiku. In other words, zappai are all those haiku people write that haiku poets recognize as not being haiku. Zappai should still be poetic, but they’re 5–7–5 poems that don’t include the seasonal reference. Writers Digest, Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
