Last week I gave you two words that lent a more romantic tint to your poetry, “charm & time.” There were many synonyms to choose from and I am happy to see such diversity in your poems. Great job everyone!
I’m open to ideas on the voting process. Do you want to vote from the recap post and I can feature that poet of the week on the next week’s recap… OR? Tell me what you think in the comments.
Clock stopped there’s nothing finer.
The second POET of the WEEK is Jane Dougherty and her 3 Cinquain Poem called, Ages.
I have one more person to spotlight this week, Annette Rochelle Aben. Her new book, A Haiku Perspective 2018 is the NUMBER ONE new release in Japanese Poetry & Haiku on Amazon. Check out the book HERE.
Elegy to eggplant – ….Bilocalalia….
Can’t believe I forgot to vote! There are so many entries !!!
I find it so hard to choose…! There are just so many awesome poets out there!
I didn’t read at all that I had to vote – sorry! I guess I just scanned for the words and missed that there was more than the explanations of the poem forms. So sorry!
So… since you asked for opinions. I’d rather have the poet of the week announced the next week so everyone got the opportunity to look through all the entries?
I think vote from the recap post and then put the winner up in the next challenge post. Of course to do that you may need to limit the length of participation, say 8 AM Sunday (Denver time) is the cut off and you post the recap Sunday morning. Only two days of voting, but hopefully it would be easier for people to vote. I think that is easier than doing it from the comments in the challenge post. honestly, my attention span to these types of challenges is about two days. I follow Friday Fictioneer posts for three days, but forget to go back after that. Same with yours. After a day or so, it’s hard to go back and check. Recap post is much easier – they are all there at one time.
Excellent points. To keep things easy for me also what do you think of voting on the recap post and I share the winner/winners on the following week’s recap? We would be a week behind but that might be the easiest for all of us. If I can pull it off, I would like to do a FREE book of all the poetry that was voted on with links to the different author’s blogs. It just an idea but worth thinking about.
Having the winners announce in the next weeks recap isn’t a bad idea (“Here is last week’s winner…Vote for this week’s winner”) In some ways, though, it would be nice to have it wrapped up right away and move on. Whatever is easiest for you.
Thanks so much! I’m blushing, very flattered.
Thanks Colleen, you’re right, it is. I missed the voting though. It’s been a heavy week, and for me, the week hasn’t quite finished yet. I’ll try and be more on the ball next time.
Congratulations to you both willowdot and Jane. Well done.
Congratulations to Willow, Jane, and Annette!
Congratulations to Willow, Jane, and Annette!!
Yes, Colleen, we have fun.Each member takes turn to lead the class and chooses a poet to study. The members prepare by finding poems from that poet and read in the class. Many people learn new things about the poets even though they studied them in high school or college. We share what we like and how we relate to the poems that read aloud in class. When we have time left, we could read our own poems. Once a year, the class publishes an anthology and each member has 5 pages of space of their poems and a short bio. A couple members are 80 some years old and still write poems!!