Poetry Prompt #2: Ghosts from We Drink Because We’re Poets. I’m admitting that I’m doing it solely to try my hand at a new poetry style, Palindrome.
Specters in My Head
Whispers
Echoing head
Sourceless voices
Beyond fevered thoughts of
Begging ghosts shrieking
Seeking attention
Threatening to tear my mind asunder
Attention seeking
Shrieking ghosts begging
Of thoughts fevered beyond
Voices sourceless
Head echoing
Whispers
I think that one derailed at the halfway mark. Didn’t realize that the lines had to be flipped when repeated until I was halfway through.
Legends of Windemere 
This is really well done, love it!
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Thanks. I wasn’t sure about the poetic style that was part of the challenge. Glad you liked it.
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I’m clearly very uneducated – I didn’t even know that palindrome poetry existed. This is a brilliant first attempt. I think I’ll have to try it out sometime.
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Don’t worry. I didn’t know it existed until I read this poetry prompt and it was listed as the optional style. It’s deceptively difficult.
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I don’t there’s anything deceptive about how difficult it is… it’s looks fricking impossible!
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I think any poem with a repetition pattern needs to be taken carefully or done in one shot followed by an edit to make it fit the pattern. I like one style called a sestina, which is 6 stanzas with 6 lines each. The same 6 last words are used throughout, but each stanza has each word ending a different line. It requires that I make a chart and slow down by the time I hit stanza 4. Actually, the weather poem I wrote yesterday is one of these. You just have to take it slow and meticulous after the initial burst of inspiration.
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Wow…that’s impressive…looks like an incredibly hard poetic form. I hadn’t heard of it before, so thanks so much for the education too..I shall be researching it in more detail and possibly trying it too…though it does look very hard to pull off! So kudos to you – great form and really striking imagery and feeling within. 🙂
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I give all credit of education to ‘We Drink Because We’re Poets’. That’s where the poetic form came from. I just followed their description. I will take credit for you liking this specific poem though. That was all me and the mental voices. 😉
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I like that latest one—if i recall correctly, it reminds me of the text shapes that George Herbert used to do—many there are so many directions you can take poetry….who would have imagined that visual shapes could also be part of the impact of the text??!
good stuff.
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Thanks. If you mean the Triforce poems, I saw a few poems shaped like flowers, hearts, and other simple objects. Thought, I’d try my hand at it and my Legend of Zelda cartoon DVDs were in front of me. Figured it was a sign.
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Wow!! Very impressive. I’m trying a new poetry form a day for the month of April. Not sure if I’m ready to tackle that one 🙂
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Good luck. I can only imagine some of the poetic forms you’re going to use once the ‘easy’ ones are done.
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LOL…since this is my first stab at the whole poetry world…I think I will linger in “easy” for awhile 🙂 And thank you for the luck!
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Between my lady, you, and Bastet, I think the palindromes turned out pretty damn well. Thank you for trying it out, Charles! 🙂 And thanks for the pingback! Lovely, lovely work.
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You’re welcome. Thanks for the challenge.
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