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Verses that rhyme, scan, or are otherwise not prose.
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There Once Was a ManSep. 06, 2023 | Comments February 1 Prompt: any, any, for love of the country, written for Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native. |
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In Regimented, Routine RhymeJul. 12, 2023 | Comments January 16 Prompt: Any, any, technology, written for Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells." |
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Epilogue by a FoolJun. 01, 2022 | Comments January 15 Prompt: King Lear, any, bastardry [sic]. |
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Siren's DirgeApr. 25, 2022 | Comments February 6 Prompt: Any, any, treasury of mermaids, written as a sestet for "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning. |
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Allusions in Austen: Gothic and PoeticOct. 25, 2021 | Comments With October nearly gone, and Halloween almost upon us, it feels necessary to devote at least one post to the stories that fueled the imagination of Catherine Morland and, to a different degree, Jane Austen herself. |
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DeformityApr. 28, 2017 | Comments A poem inspired by a butterfly I saw lying on a sidewalk. |
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ForecastJan. 09, 2017 | Comments "Snowbank coffers make bad investments." A poem inspired by the recent winter weather. |
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PentimentoJan. 02, 2017 | Comments I try my hand at a Rondeau poem; subject: time travel and its lingering impact. |
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Star-Crossed CentoMar. 05, 2015 | Comments A cento poem for Purim from the perspective of Haman's wife, drawing only from works authored by women. |
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CrisischondriaFeb. 19, 2015 | Comments A poem satirizing our innate ability to transform any and everything into a personal affliction. |