December

Can you feel it?  


The old month falling away from us, and the last of the year spreading itself out like a blanket to surround us?  It's almost here, my lovelies, 


The End Of 2010. 


To begin with, I love the start of a new month, it's like a little New Years for me, every 28 (give or take) days.  Which, by the way, is my favorite part of December.  I LOVE New Years Eve.  Just the whole concept of it...a fresh beginning for everyone, the elusive Midnight Kiss (which I'm still waiting for), the fireworks, and the ball dropping.  Everyone happy, waiting, expecting something to happen.  I feel like, at the start of a new year, everyone is at their best, believing that this year is going to be the one, the one that holds something N E W, something special, something better than last year.  Call me crazy, or romantic, or whatever adjective you so choose, but I  L O V E it.  


Are you ready, friends?  It's almost here...

What's your favorite holiday, loves???

<3

Cinquain - Poetry with five lines. Line 1 has one word (the title). Line 2 has two words that describe the title. Line 3 has three words that tell the action. Line 4 has four words that express the feeling, and line 5 has one word which recalls the title.

Winter

Impossibly cold

Sweeping over everyone

Bringing sadness and regret

Winter

(I hope I did that right)  
So I wrote this yesterday, but never got a chance to post it.  Sorry about that. :-/  But here it is now, an also, here's today's! 

Ghazal - A short lyrical poem that arose in Urdu. It is between 5 and 15 couplets long. Each couplet contains its own poetic thought but is linked in rhyme that is established in the first couplet and continued in the second line of each pair. The lines of each couplet are equal in length. 

I stood on my own, feeling the breeze blow past,

Bringing with it, the memories of my own past.

I stood on the sands of a beach, when at last,

I remembered a moment, from years in my past.

I walked to the ocean, feeling it surround me like a cast,

And recalled certain feelings, blown to me from my past.

Okay, a) I know those lines aren't all the same length, and b) I know that's less then 5 couplets.  I'm having a lot of trouble with this one, just because I can not find enough words that I can use which rhyme with past. I might come back to it later, and try to add the last two couplets...

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Us

So nobody left me any suggestions for a poetry form.  :(  I even gave you guys an extra day!  But o well, I went through the list, and decided on a Nonet - a 9-line poem, where the first line has 9 syllables, second line has 8 syllables, and so on.  

Lying beside the lilac bushes,

she looked like she was just sleeping.

It was beautiful, almost,

with the grass still growing -

everything's okay.

Nothing's changing,

And always,

we'll be:

Us.  

I know that was pretty bad...  The syllables were giving me trouble.  Also, my best friend Mary just made a blog.  Definitely check it out - I promise, it's full of awesomeness! 

<3

Broken Chains

So today's going to be the first day of my one-week project.  Like I mentioned 

the other day, I'm going to pick the poetry form for today.  If you guys want to 

suggest one for tomorrow, let me know in the comment box!  The sites I'm 

using are here and here.  My only rules are that I won't do a Ballad (have 

you ever read Beowulf? The idea of writing that is terrifying!), and I won't do the same form twice.  So anyways, here's today's form.

Etheree - consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables.  
Etheree can also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.


Broken Chains
Without his angered gaze upon her, she felt brand new.
The lack of a fear she'd known so long,
made her feel like she was finally free -
like the chains he'd held so tightly
had finally broken, after so long.
For perhaps the first time,
in what seemed like
her entire life,
she can
move.
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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving all!!

Today, I am thankful for my friends, for making it to 19yearsold, and for my wonderful cat, Kitty.  <3 (even though she makes me look like I have pink eye)

What are you thankful for?  Let me know in the comment box! 

<3

PS.  I'm not posting any writing today because of the holiday.  Sorry :(  I'll have more of that for you guys tomorrow!

For One Week

Today, while sitting at my laptop attempting to squeeze the creativity out of my skull, I thought of an idea.  Lately, I've been having trouble thinking of anything to write, probably because my plan of writing something every day backfired on me.


So for the next week, I'm going to look up a different type of poetry each day, and attempt to write that. 


So upon making this decision, I found a site that lists 51 different forms of poetry.  For today, I'm going to pick the type.  After today though, I'm asking you guys, the readers to choose a form for me.  My only rules are that it can not be an Epic Poem (Have any of you ever read Beowulf?  It's terrifying), and I won't do the same form twice. 


I am doing this 1-week project for 2 reasons: 

1. I'm hoping that it will help me to write
2. To teach me different types of poetry, as I usually don't even use any form

So I'm going to go write today's poem, and I'll post later with the form, and the poem.  Be excited! :)

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PS.  For any of you out there reading, that like to write - JOIN ME!  It's going to be fun, and I'd love to see what you guys come up with :)

An Ode To A City

I am the city streets, paved not with gold but instead with the hopes and dreams of so many before you.  I am the honking of horns that fills the night, and scattered conversations that lull you to sleep from fifteen stories below your window.  I am the almost forgotten art posted on every street corner, the signs advertising "up and coming" molded to every brick and piece of stucco.  I am the city lights, illuminating every corner and every apartment window long after you've gone to bed.  I am the city, staying awake long after you've said your good-nights.  I am the city, anonymous and always there, long after everyone else has gone. 

I changed the layout and such of my page.  What do you guys think?  Let me know in the comment box!

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