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Workshop Title
American Renga or
Eternal Renga or
Round Robin
Etc

Tanka is a Japanese traditional poem consisting of 5 lines with a 3 lines Haiku or Senyru with 2 lines couplet. Renga is a string of Tanka created from Haiku Senyru and Couplet that creates a Renga. Thus a Renga is a Collaborative form of Japanese poetry that’s been around centuries invented by Japanese culture.

Ok everybody get your free verse pencils sharp. This month's contest has only 3 rules : Title must be "Why Did I Love You".....must be free verse.....must have 14-19 lines. So shake off the cob webs and get at it lol..........stan

Please joint me in congratulating Lovedly for winning the July contest with the following poem.

SUMMER FUN

Wow
Summer again was cold all along
a young chick remains glued to mom's tits he adorns
pair of sibling’s, young ones pulls each other’s hair for fun
Mom and pop are sunning at the beach
preparing for another summer’s lasting memorable one (for fun)

young upcoming teens wish to brush lips often
as they cross the permissible age
their love entwined has begun

The New Criticism by I.A. Richards and T.S. Eliot

a really interesting essay, check it out at-
http://www.phaguniya.com/the-new-criticism-by-i-a-richards-literary-theo...

OK folks only one more day to enter the contest as the 29th is deadline so get those entries in asap......stan

Blog on Creativity

Hope someone will read it

Poetry is nothing more
than one's inner personal emotions
each one has different

See how Irene
and now
Rula
have taken over

Let me see if there is anyone left over

raj!!!
you helped them

Creativity is the elixir for
modern poetry'
imagery
Simile
and all that which have gone
achaic
let Shakespeare awake
as
thee thou and ye may be

These be my views
then now
SHARE YOURS

https://soundcloud.com/neopoet/sets

eeek! They're all different poets but in my voice, which pretty much sucks.

Please, record your own poems, email the mp3 to me at [email protected] if it's under 5mg or we'll arrange some file transfer to our SoundCloud page if it's over.

Everybody welcomed to participate!
Follow my prompt or write your own, post your poem here or in the main stream.
The Poetry of Tea
Sometime around 30th century B.C. a few leaves found in boiling water started a tea tradition that for some symbolizes “the harmony and mysterious unity of the universe” (Lu Yu) and for others it is just a comfort drink. But it persists almost as long as we remember our history.
One of my favorite poems about tea is the Song of Tea written at the end of the first millennium by a Chinese poet Lu Tung.
Song of Tea

I used to make rock videos, did works for Midnight Oil, Icehouse, The Saints and others.
Would anyone like to make poetry videos with me? We could use yours or mine voice reading of your work and collaborate on the imagery.

I have the camera and editing skills and software and some skill in 3d animation, effects and sound production.

Drop me a line if you're interested, we could post them on a Neopoet dedicated YouTube page or Vimeo or whatever preferred site.
cheers,
Jess

I am considering running a somewhat esoteric workshop on the use of humour to convey serious ideas.
It would not be a workshop about funny poems, it would be about wordplay, sly references, about not taking oneself too seriously in order to convey something very serious.

This would definitely be Shark Pool material. Participants would need an excellent vocabulary, a more than passing familiarity with classic poetry and an interest in expressing vital issues.

Anyone interested?