A poem that tells a story in 20 lines or less…. it must have a beginning, a middle and an end, and be self contained… so, just like a short story, but in the form of a rhyme.
A Day
This morning I awoke to sounds of roosters crowing. My good mood couldn’t be broke as [...]
Entries from June 2001
illznah skillznah - narrative
June 30, 2001
today’s assignment
June 21, 2001
Today’s Assignment, Please said:
Select one of the following –
1. Write a haiku regarding a time of day.
or
2. Write a humorous rhyming couplet regarding a soi chatter.
or
3. Write five to ten lines of blank verse about a pet.
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Dawn is breaking now.
Once again, time for waking,
shower, dress, eat, and drive.
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The names come and go,
giving us quite [...]
danger!
June 7, 2001
I live in one of the most geologically stable areas of the world, the Colorado Plateau. We rarely have tornadoes, floods, major earthquakes, pestilence, or plague. Ok, we do have the plague but it is usually segregated into the prairie dog community and few humans contract it. Scatterings of dormant and extinct volcanoes litter the [...]