Poem: "Truce"

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Truce

By: Eve Estelle

Poem: "Nightsong Serenade"

Nightsong Serenade

By: Eve Estelle

A New Year's Thank You #3

¡Bienvenido, 2017!

Sorry, Spanish on the brain. How is the new year treating you so far? Do you see good things to come? Let's hope so!

With the dropping of balls, the lighting of fireworks, and neighbors firing off weapons that are most certainly illegal, we say farewell to another year, and one many either simply won't miss at all or have mixed feelings towards (I'm in this group). 2016 was an interesting year, no doubt about it - personally, it was overall uneventful, but so many things went on around us.

Quick Tricks: Working With Syllables in Poetry

Edit (12/6/16): Whoops. In my examples using the word "father," I marked the wrong syllables as stressed/unstressed! Fa- should have a slash, and -ther should have a breve. My bad! ☺

Hey there! Oh, it's been too long. I've really tried my hardest to avoid these post gaps, but I have just had nothing lately. Absolutely nothing in mind. The urge to write is there and stronger than ever, but whew. Creativity has left the building!

It'll come back, though. Eventually. Till then I just ask that you continue bearing with me and my sluggish posting.

But! That brings me to this: I may not be getting posts out as often as I'd like, but I am still writing - and as I recently had to write up a sonnet for a class I'm taking, I felt like sharing with you a little trick that I discovered to be an excellent way to work with meter and the pesky syllables that form it.

Poem: "The Autumn Muse" (First Featured on #WisdomNinja)

Image by Serhio Magpie via Flickr (CC); edited slightly from original

The Autumn Muse

By: Eve Estelle