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Judy Young's fine poem printed below in the poems by members and her husband's equally fine painting reproduced above show us again the close affinity poems and paintings have. The emotions that are channeled into creations of different kinds of art are, of course, quite similar. A few years ago I took a drawing class at the university, and I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed the course. It was like finding another way home. I'm sure those of you who both paint and write with expertise have made a similar discovery to mine. Despite my very limited ability, I soon realized that I was emotionally drained by drawing, and that I did not need to compose poems during that time. The Youngs do it the right way--he paints, she writes. They have recently have published their second book, this one a matching of poems with paintings, including the painting and poem presented here.. Visit Judy's web site here to read more about this Springfield couple and their books available for purchase. I am amazed at how much we can learn from each other. Judy presented a superb workshop at the state convention on composing sonnets. Speaking of sonnets, a very tight form traditionally, we soon realize by reading them that through the centuries poets have developed variations to give color to their fourteen iambic lines, the same variations they accepted in ballads and lyrics. Last month I introduced one of the variations to regular iambic rhythm: the anapest (duh duh DUM). Now we are ready to study another variation poets have used for centuries, the trochee (DUM duh) inserted into an iambic line. This irregularity frequently appears as the first foot in the line of a stanza of rhyming verse or as the first foot of a blank verse line. By its difference it attracts attention to itself as an introducer of something new, much like the indention of a prose paragraph. See how many of these lines containing trochees (underlined) you can identify (winner and answers in next month's issue). 1. "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" 2. "Drink to me, only, with thine eyes" 3. "Looking as if she were alive. I call / That piece a wonder now . . . " (two trochees) 4. "This is my letter to the world." 5. "Home is the sailor, home from sea" 6. "God of our fathers, known of old--" 7. "Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled" LAST MONTH'S WINNER AND ANSWERS ON ANAPESTS (duh duh DUM) 1. "Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the
shot heard round the world." 2. "And I will love thee still, my dear, / While the sands
o' life shall run ." 3. "And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveler,
long I stood" (two anapests) 4. "The smith a mighty man was he / With large and sinewy hands" 5. "We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon" (two
anapests) 6. "And this was the reason that, long ago / In this
kingdom by the sea" (three anapests) 7. "So we'll go no more aroving / So late into the night" --Tom Padgett, Editor
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BREATH OF EVENING BREEZES I painted you in my mind, That house long ago gone,
BOWSER'S BALL-- THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET I should probably ask Mr. Murphy.
When looking for a restaurant The same thing always happens Or drive on by to a traffic light,
Or is there a rhyme or a reason,
NO TRUE LOVE Love is just a word |
NIGHT DREAMS I am a zebra I am a jailbird A treble clef Who needs sleep Unlike the poet's world, I felt the poet's anguish,
Rhythmic breathing DEAD CARDINAL Gray sky, white snow, red bird so
still Everyone hears what a poet hears DO THE PLOUGH Bodies fold into a triangle, EARLY CHICANERY Their candy they scoured, they quit for a minute When votes were collected TRIBUTE TO DONALD HALL |
VISIT THE WORKSHOP FOR A POETRY ASSIGNMENT.