Tag: challenge
member name: Jana B.
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May 10, 2006 11:54 PM EDT --
Poetry challenge: The Catalog Poem
The catalog or list poem isn't so much a poetic form as a strategy. The idea is to write a poem by creating a list of things. You might list . . .
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May 04, 2006 12:31 AM EDT --
Not long ago, I suggested my favorite literary word--"chiasmus"--for the "Word of the Day" group on Gather. From that humble beginning arose the chiasmus challenge, and even a . . .
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May 10, 2006 11:43 PM EDT --
The Things Emily Carries
An after-school inventory
Six Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
Chewing gum wrappers.
School handouts, two weeks overdue.
Three rubber bands.
A five-inch-tall stuffed dog.
Four small . . .
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May 12, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
a collaborative butterfly cinquain by Cindy Tebo and Jana B.
Harvests
delta
time where cotton
is king and wal-mart bags
blow like tumbleweeds down lonely
highways
to north . . .
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May 10, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
Mortuary Chapel
"Amazing Grace" sounds across empty pews. The widow whispers, "Wasn't it lovely?"
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May 02, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
A cinquain
I tried to write.
But syllables crowded one
another until before me sat
a sonnet.
After I posted this cinquain, I realized that the two sentences also constitute chiasmus -- chiasmus . . .
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