Syllabic Verse – Page 10 – Leonas Lines

Forward into the Future

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Leonas Lines

Grand-daughter’s Grad Cap With Quote “ I Go To Seek a Great Perhaps” by François Rabelais

I go

Dreaming

Seeking

Future

Visions

My feet

Stepping

Upon

My fears

Syllabic Verse

Berry Bittersweet

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Leonas Lines

Red Currents and Red Current Jelly Drawing by Leonas Designs

Red Current Berry

Picking after school

Bane of my existence

But their yummy jelly

Was my sweet reward

5 Syllabic Verse

A bittersweet memory….😊

When I was young we had 5 Red Current bushes in our backyard which were the pride and joy of my mom who loved Red Current Jelly but their existence was a bane to my brother and I as we were the daily fruit pickers!

It was our after school chore and one we immensely disliked! But….we did enjoy eating the yummy jelly on our toast that mom made from the berries.

I found this recipe online that is very similar to my mom’s, not sure that I am ready to make any of this jelly, but perhaps you readers might.

Red Currant Jelly Recipe

April 2018, NaPoWriMo 2018, Syllabic Verse

Ceaseless Hope

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Leonas Lines

Blue feather

Commit to always keep going non-stop

Singing a song only your heart knows

Clinging to a belief deep within

That will give your soul the wings to fly

Syllablic Verse

(Based on this poem by Emily Dickinson)

“Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,”

–Emily Dickinson

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 18

prompt for the day isn’t exactly based in revision, but it’s not exactly not based in revision, either. It also sounds a bit more complicated than it is, so bear with me! First, find a poem in a book or magazine (ideally one you are not familiar with). Use a piece of paper to cover over everything but the last line. Now write a line of your own that completes the thought of that single line you can see, or otherwise responds to it. Now move your piece of paper up to uncover the second-to-last line of your source poem, and write the second line of your new poem to complete/respond to this second-to-last line. Keep going, uncovering and writing, until you get to the first line of your source poem, which you will complete/respond to as the last line of your new poem

April 2018, Dialogue, NaPoWriMo 2018, Syllabic Verse

Then and Now

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Leonas Lines

Pencil and Lined Paper, Apple Pencil and iPad

19th Century Student

“Oh had I known then

What I know now, I’d

Laughed, and not worried”

20th Century Student

“Oh had you known then

What I know now, you’d

Have not believed”

Syllabic Verse-Dialogue

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 7

Write out a list of all of your different layers of identity. For example, you might be a wife, a grandmother, a Philadelphian, a dental assistant, a rabid Phillies fan, a seamstress, retiree, agnostic, cancer survivor, etc.. These are all ways you could be described or lenses you could be viewed through. Now divide all of those things into lists of what makes you feel powerful and what makes you feel vulnerable. Now write a poem in which one of the identities from the first list contends or talks with an identity from the second list. This might turn out to be kind of a “heavy” exercise, emotionally, but I hope you will find the results enlightening

March 2018, Syllabic Verse