poetry form week 88, shape poetry

 

 

a shape

a long string

a sweet tip along

a staircase photo here

all images pile up to dance 

poetry and story inn fridays week 137 ....cold winter and hot soup

 

 

  

 

 

 

merry christmas, happy new year 2023

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

hyde park poetry week 123,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

poetry picnic week 83, midterm exam could be tricky

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

montana western university

 

 

university of washington at seattle, washington,

 

 

poetry form week 87, villanelle

 Length: 19 lines
Stanzas: 5 tercets and a quatrain
Metrical requirements: none
Rhyme scheme: Too complicated to summarize

 

 

These components are arranged into the following:

A1BA2 / ABA1 / ABA2 / ABA1 / ABA2 / ABA1A2

 

 

One Art

 

Elizabeth Bishop - 1911-1979

 

 

The art of  winning is easy to predict:

so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is considered a gain next time

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

to prevent missing a key, you carry a handbag

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. a change of mind will matter when you're reborn

I lost my mother’s watch. And look at my last, or
next-to-last, of  three resident locations.
The art of losing can make you stay awake.

I lostfour cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, three rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but I land on mars in my dreams.

 

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like a cheerful tear 

poetry and story inn fridays week 135...falls and golden leaves

 

 

 

  

 

poetry picnic week week 82, vegetables and soft tofu

 

 

  

 

 

mushrooms

 

bean sprouts

 

taro roots , 芋头

 

lotus roots 

 

篙芭  gaoba, 

广西柳州柳江县百朋镇茨菇

 

guangxi  liuzhou baipeng city,   

茨菇  chigu

poetry and story inn fridays week 134, oxygen and forests

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hyde park poetry week 121