I am very happy to have found your Substack too... and happy that you have found mine because your wonderful comments mean so much, Chen! Many thanks and a wonderful New Year for you!!
This is lovely, each line distinct and tied by roundness of some sort, as you said and thank you for talking about form and why you like to work within it. It is a practice I've been thinking about sestinas again and how much I love pantoums!
Thank you, Kristen! I never know whether people want me to discuss my interests in form or not, so I'm glad to get some feedback! Sestinas and pantoums are wonderful--not forms I've tried. I really enjoyed working with the villanelle recently too....tried ghazals, but I'm afraid they have me stumped!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful poetry with us, dear poet-friend. It's always an oasis of finely crafted artisanal poetry catching the beauty of the world an our universe.
I like the splatter and spatter, the celestial and the earthly commingled. thanks
It was fun (once I got the hang of what I was after--ha!) to slide things together that way! Happy New Year, Weston!
It's a slightly chaotic environment when you depart from rhyme and scan.
It is indeed! ;-)
I'm very grateful I discovered your Substack, Christine. Your poems, your writing, everything.
That's my own clumsy note. Happy New Year!
I am very happy to have found your Substack too... and happy that you have found mine because your wonderful comments mean so much, Chen! Many thanks and a wonderful New Year for you!!
"The cream baubles of yucca blossoms...." ❤️
So glad you like it--that one came late in the process!
This is lovely, each line distinct and tied by roundness of some sort, as you said and thank you for talking about form and why you like to work within it. It is a practice I've been thinking about sestinas again and how much I love pantoums!
Thank you, Kristen! I never know whether people want me to discuss my interests in form or not, so I'm glad to get some feedback! Sestinas and pantoums are wonderful--not forms I've tried. I really enjoyed working with the villanelle recently too....tried ghazals, but I'm afraid they have me stumped!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful poetry with us, dear poet-friend. It's always an oasis of finely crafted artisanal poetry catching the beauty of the world an our universe.
Have a wonderful year filled with round things.
A beautiful and visual poem, such a delight!
Not being from the desert I had to look some of these up!