I Think That I Shall Never See

By Michael Seese

OK, so that one has been used.

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I've been writing a lot of micropoetry lately. (Of course even if you don't follow me, I have been writing it.) Since it's Twitter, naturally the poems must have fewer than 140 characters.

I've been doing so much that I began to wonder whether I still could write longer poems. 

Well, I'm taking the opportunity to stretch my poetic muscles once again. A few weeks ago, I learned about the Great River Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Contest. 

If you don't remember your high school English lessons (don't worry, I had to look it up) a sonnet must be 14 lines, with a specific rhyming scheme.

Wikipedia does a nice job of explaining the details. But three of the more popular varieties are:

Italian (Petrarchan): a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a, c-d-e-c-d-e   or
                                           a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a, c-d-c-c-d-c

English (Shakespearean): a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g

Spenserian sonnet: a-b-a-b, b-c-b-c, c-d-c-d, e-e

The contest is $5 for three sonnets. So you bet your booty I'm going to write three. I've already got one done. I'd love to share it here. But the contest is blind-judged, so I don't want to mess anything up. 

The deadline is July 1, with winners announced August 2.

Cross your fingers, my friends.

Poetry Nook Magazine Is Here

By Michael Seese

In a previous post, I mentioned that a micropoem of mine had been selected for the inaugural issue of Poetry Nook magazine. Actually, once the smoke cleared, I learned that three had been selected. 

Let me share one more here:

"The Mourning"

she drops the roses
on the fresh earth;
it is too early
in the mourning

And now for the commercial...

It's available on Amazon. 


 
I'll be ordering my copy pretty soon. Please spread the word.


Micropoetry... Big ideas, small word counts. Click to tweet.
 

9-11

By Michael Seese

19 devil zealots
4 misguided missiles
102 terrifying minutes
2,977 voices silenced
countless screams unanswered

Click to tweet.

Let's Put It To A Vote

By Michael Seese

A "micropoem" I wrote has been selected for inclusion in the upcoming issue of Poetry Nook Magazine. The editor made a suggestion for a text change. I'm not sure if I like it better than the original, or not.

So I thought I would put it to a vote.

The two versions differ by only one word (technically, one letter) and one piece of punctuation. I won't say whose is whose. 

They are:

as much as i try
i cannot unshatter
the glass of my life

OR

as much as i try
i cannot unshatter
the glass, or my life


Please leave a comment as to which you prefer.

Which "unshatter" is the right one? Click to tweet.