(Resolve Listing)
A bit of a hybrid form. Poetry? Prose? Well, that would require the act of decision-making . . .
Collector Plate
The quintine is another brief poem of Spanish origin, now rare to find. It has line lengths of 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 syllables.
Whirling Still
A winter estrangement. Contraction, expansion and opening, drafts from the darkness too close.
A “Finger-trap” Sestina
An experiment with a hybrid form of sestina I’m calling a “Fingertrap.” More iterations of this form may follow!
Kyoto Pawn Shop
The quinzaine is a short poem of three lines (7, 5, and 3 syllables). The first line is a statement which is then followed by two questions.
Rae – An Awdl Gywydd
The Awdl Gywydd (owdl gów-wid) is an old Welsh form, where the 7-syllable-line quatrains lean on harmony of sound even over sensibility.
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