#POEM

Brian Bilston

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I’ve written a few poems chronicling the pandemic this year. Here’s a thread of some of them, beginning with ‘Serenity Prayer’, back in March. Here’s a poem on establishing a

Canadian Nomad

NomadCanadian

Part 1.Separating facts and fabrication. The 1908 southern dervish raid on the Habar Yoonis herd Daboolane and the deliberate injection of 'Xirsow Waa Naaqusnimo" poem into the Daboolane incident. Part

Raphael Tiriel

RaphaelTiriel

My Suicidal MelodyI’m so drugged and relaxedI wish you could see My blood drip offVarious parts of my skinI wish you could be hereSo you can seeI can be ignorant

Matthew Haigh 💀💄💪🏻

MattHaighPoetry

Here's my little class. One of the key things I consider when editing a poem is the imagery. I’m a visual person & personally if a poem lacks impactful imagery

Raphael Tiriel

RaphaelTiriel

Her scars and painHer dark liquored eyesConceal heaven and nightThe stars soak inside her eyesRevealing the mysteriesThe moon tries to hideFor she wished upon a starSearching for the forbiddenAnd the

Kathryn O’Driscoll 🎄 Kate

PoetryOD

Thread: When John Betjeman rhymed scones with stones in ‘How to get on in society’ (in a poem about the mistakes that identify people as not Upper Class when they

Andy

__codexterous

So @Team_English1 I had an idea today about a different way to approach teaching GCSE *poetry anthology* and wondered if anyone had tried something similar. The idea partly came from

todd dillard

toddedillard

Here's a poetry template for a small poem: Image with anthropomorphizing.Thing you want/don't want/hate/like.Rhetorical question/statement that references the past or your childhood.Bring back the thing from the openingFinal line(s)

Jane Clark Scharl

JcScharl

https://wordhoard.substack.com/p/a-note-on-methodLater today I’ll send my first post on “The Triumph of Love,” but in preparation I wanted to share this brief note on my method for this close reading project.

Sonnet the Hedgehog

germyradin

This year I would like to start working with publishing companies to coach touring writers on performance. I’ve been acting for 25 years, teaching acting for 5, writing poems for

Danielle Rose

danirosepoet

Okay, so a thread about prose poetry and the most common mistake people make when they're first exploring working in the genre.First, prose poetry is nebulous and ill-defined. In a

VB 🌹

msbutler21

THREAD 1/ OK SO it has been brought to my attention that Fredericton city council has decided to cease the tradition of their Poet Laureate reading a poem before council

Steven Leyva

sdleyva

Loose thread on craft in poems:1. Your intentions are just another literary device that is open to revision. Perhaps no revision can happen if those aren't on the table. No

SamSays

samjawed65

It is so wonderful for a young poet to find that her work has been shared by a superstar but it’s unimaginable that he won’t give her credit even after

Olney Magazine

OlneyMagazine

“Narrative” poetry. A thread:Narrative poems don’t have to be “lengthy”. And a long poem certainly doesn’t constitute narrative. Here is a short list of things we feel give rise to

todd dillard

toddedillard

thinking of this Marie Howe poem again, and how a poem can unseat the laws of reality not by focusing on how the strange is so strange, but rather by

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