 Poetry: April 04, 2018 Issue [#8835] |
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This week: Prompted ~ Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading  
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Greetings! I'm honored to be your guest editor for this week's WDC Poetry Newsletter.
"...the writing of poems...
the call of overhearing music that is not yet made."
Mary Kinzie, "A Poet's Guide to Poetry"
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
"An Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope |
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Greetings, fellow writers ~ let's start with a prompt  ~ April
April, it's a month, one of 12, so what? It's not a picture, an image, an action - that is, unless I make it so.  That's the point of the prompt - to make me see the word, seek it's image - now, April can also be a person's name. Thus, an ode to April can speak to a time of year, or a person - see how the mind can play with a word - I'll bet you can find more images for an ode or sonnet, or limerick, perhaps 
There are several types of prompts that I think are crafted to incite a poem.
 Words ~ random or themed. Our April above can add crocus, yellow, Easter, river. The challenge can be to use all or some of the words to craft a poem. Or, April can be the theme and the challenge be forbidding the writer from using the following words while weaving a poem about April (person or time).
 Quotes - by persons famous or infamous, literary or tongue-in-cheek. Interpreting the quote in verse is a challenging exercise, as we read the words, then interpret them, or re-interpret them, in our own lyric voices.
 Images. Pictures or drawings, with or without a theme or genre. Interpret the image in verse, with or without form. Looking at a painting, a picture, we each interpret it with our eyes, our senses, as a unique image. The poem is the expression of that image, as we see it, and imagine it.
 Crafting/forming the poem ~ metric, or free verse, or story poem. Some challenges and publications seek verse that weaves images with patterns (forms) - sonnet, haiku, free verse, blank verse, and so on. Most of these also have a theme or genre, or group image (i.e., Horror - ghosts). Each of us has a unique interpretations of these images in both word and form.
 Themes ~ This is not the same as word themes, it's generally broader, more expansive. Some poetry magazines seek themed submissions for an anthology or quarterly issue and consider those submissions as distinct from general open submissions. Anthologies also seek themed poems, using form, or image, or genre to focus the work.
I wanted to explore these images today, as we start National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). It's a grueling month, where, if we accept the challenge to self, we craft a poem a day, whether draft, or final, whether readable or scribble of random words. Prompts are provided both in our Community and the great outdoors to incite the Muse Creative to craft words in verse. If you take up the challenge, perhaps create a book item or folder to house the month's works of verse, there to revisit and further craft.
If you accept the challenge, maybe for the month, or maybe when a prompt compels, or maybe just whenever, consider perhaps what we've explored today and have fun with it.
Write On 
Kate
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Check out some the worlds in verse crafted by members of our Community, and perhaps take up one of the April challenges as well 
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This is my first poem for April's poem a day entries. Acrostic form. Happy Easter to all.
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I thank you for joining me in today's exploration.
Enjoy the month, craft some images in words, follow (or challenge) a prompt or three. share some of your work with us. However you see it, have fun
Until the next time,
Write On 
Kate
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