Thank you writers, for wonderful poems from near and far! This month our poets are from Puerto Rico, the United States, the UK, and Mexico. Five are new for this challenge and one is shared from a published work. I love the traditions shared and the skillful use of both languages. I appreciate the words […]
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El diciembre ya está aquí y afortunadamente significa que habrá más poesía y ¡este año maldito de 2020 casí se acaba! December is here already and fortunately that means there will be more poetry and that this accursed year is almost over! El principio del mes trae un reto poético nuevo. Para diciembre escribiremos verso […]
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Thank you for your interest in the Poetry Challenge: Tanka Tribute! This month we have two tanka tributes from friends and two of my own. We’ll start with tribute for a public figure from the movies by a Spanish blogger friend: ¡Gracias por su interés en el Reto Poetico: Tributo Tanka! Este mes tenemos dos […]
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A day the earth stood still and CNN was the only channel to watch. I wrote this post in 2018, I am sharing it today because it still holds true. In my parents’ generation, it was where you were the days that President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Junior were shot. For those of […]
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Our August poetry challenge was to write a nonet on nature or the seasons; a nine line poem with a descending number of syllables. The participants have cooked up some beautiful images for you. Six wonderful poems, in the order they were received. I’ve made a loose translation for all of them to the other […]
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Hold on, August means summer’s almost over! Time for a new poetry challenge. (en español abajo) For the August Poetry Challenge, we will try the new poetic form called a Nonet. A nonet is a nine line poem, that goes from 9 syllables in the first line, down to one in the last line. Your […]
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