This week Michelle Ayon Navajas (as the W3 Poet of the Week), has set the challenge to write a series of 5 Hay(na)ku with the theme of 5 different kinds of love. The Hay(na)ku is a form invented by Filipino poet Eileen Tabios as a version of haiku. This form is a single stanza of … Continue reading Looking at Kinds of Love→| A Different Perspective
This is my contribution for the W3 poetry prompt provided by this week’s Poet of the Week, Jaideep Khanduja. We are asked to write a poem using enjambment to mimic a heart beat and limited to 12 lines. Additionally, the first and last lines should evoke or describe silence to frame the whole poem in … Continue reading Looking at the Final Silence→| A Different Perspective
This week on the W3 Poetry Prompt, D. Avery has given us a challenge of writing a Ghazal. This ancient Arabic form is deceptively easy. The unlimited number of couplets have 10 to 16 syllables per …| A Different Perspective
This week the W3 poetry prompt comes from Ben Tonkin. His poetic instructions distilled are: “This week, I invite you to step into a world of old-timey wonders—where cogs spin, gears click, a…| A Different Perspective
This week Robbie Cheadle (the W3 PoW) has challenged us to write a poem on the theme of “an impactful childhood memory & how it affected you at the time” using “any combinatio…| A Different Perspective
