 Poetry: November 22, 2017 Issue [#8609] |
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This week: Tell Me a (Poetry) Story Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."
Gustave Flaubert
"A good poem creates a world that somehow touches the reader. That world is built of images that come to the reader through vivid sense details and the music of vivacious language."
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Tell Me a (Poetry) Story
As American Thanksgiving approaches, I am reminded of past family get-togethers I’ve attended at this time of year. My grandfather, now long gone, used to regale us with tales of his life and his past. Sometimes they were far-fetched, like the time he was miraculously transported home during a blizzard as he was driving from work which was an hour away. No one was ever sure if he was joking, serious or entering senility, but us grandkids hung on every word.
There are a couple poetry forms that reminded me of this storytelling that I will share today.
Fable
This has been around for almost three thousand years.
MUST HAVES
--A story in poetry form.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Usually has a lesson/moral but you can choose to have one or not.
--Topic.
--Often has animal characters, or personified objects (think dish running away with spoon) but the choice is the poet’s.
--Line count.
--Meter.
--Number of stanzas.
--Rhyme: Usually rhymes, but not strict requirement so up to you.
Landays
This Middle Eastern form has been around for hundreds of years. Like much poetry through the ages, this form was often sung. This form does have storytelling, which is why I included it today, but it also includes other things people can pass on from person to person and generation to generation, like wisdom gained from experience that a mother would share with her daughter.
One other thing about this form that I thought was interesting is that this form is usually written and shared by women.
MUST HAVES
--Couplet. I’ve seen this form only have a couplet or be a chain of couplets.
--Line count: 2 (unless a chain).
--Meter: Syllabic. There are 9 syllables in line one and 13 syllables in line two.
--Number of stanzas: 1 (unless a chain).
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Rhyme or not, it’s up to you. I’ve seen them both ways.
SOURCE NOTES:
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Drury, John. the po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y. 2nd edition. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2006. Print.
https://static.poetryfoundation.org/o/media/landays.html
https://muftah.org/pashtun-folklore-case-landay/#.WhGmrFuPLIU
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Theme: only Fables as I didn't find any Landays on WDC. Someone should change that 
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