With regard to poetry, Aprille provides an ongoing diary in a sidebar to the blog, where she records her personal guidelines to working the different styles she has encountered this month, starting with a Fibonacci poetic form (new to me), on to Naani, Triolet, Rubaiyat, Shijo, and more. She plays music, she reads her poems out loud, she shows us incredible images and collages. simply beautiful.Įxplore Aprille’s blog, and you’ll see it’s a sumptuous feast for several senses. Okay, our featured blog today is 000 april where Aprille - no last name, “like Cher or Madonna,“ she jokes - is rocking my blogosphere with absolutely stunning visual imagery. Whew, that's quite a gift for one day's work. I write what is offered to me." And man, is it good. She sent me this message along with her poem: "No ode, no sonnet, no candy, no doomsday (though this day felt like it). I suppose it would be possible to rhyme but immensely difficult because the lines are so short. stanzas basically like Percey Bysshe Shelley's “Ode to the West Wind” sonnet sections but without the terza rima rhyme. A total of 30 words for the whole poem, then. This means that each stanza, in whatever shape, contains six words. Four hay(na)ku, adding up to twelve lines, and then a couplet of three words per line, each equivalent to the third line of a hay(na)ku. In fact, I think I've invented the hay(na)ku sonnet.
Once again, I’ve been an overachiever and mashed up all three prompts, though I only manage to mention my favorite candies. Her sprightly example celebrates Gummi Bears. In today’s prompt for her “April Writing Challenge 2012,” Andrea Boltwood suggests an ode to a favorite candy. Check out Robert’s cool sample poem, which mixes doomsday with tax day. Maureen Thorson says, “because it’s the 14th, I challenge you to write a sonnet.” Robert Lee Brewer tells us: write a doomsday poem.
almost halfway through National Poetry Month.