[stylist] Sharing my earliest sestina House of Cards

Tue Apr 3 00:20:30 UTC 2012

Hi Linda, thank you, I'll inhale the attachment, and take a chance, a new ride is always exciting. Paul E Baver
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lynda Lambert 
  To: Writer's Division Mailing List 
  Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 7:39 PM
  Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing my earliest sestina House of Cards

  Paul,
  It is a great way to write a poem that can be so moving and powerful. 
  Basically, it is a French type of poem; 6 line stanzas, 6 of them. At the 
  end is a three line ENVOI that pulls it all together.  The end words of the 
  stanzas are orchestrated numerically - this is the part that is a puzzle 
  when you first begin working on the form. It has to be exact, and follow the 
  format.  Why not give it a try, Paul?  I will attach some directions to help 
  you. Open the attachment, and there you go. You are ON a MISSION now. lol 
  Join in the fun - write a SESTINA.
  Lynda
  Lynda Lambert
  104 River Road
  Ellwood City, PA 16117

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  My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "PAUL BAVER" <pebaver at verizon.net>
  To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
  Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 6:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [stylist] Sharing my earliest sestina House of Cards

  I love your (sestina), I beg everyone's pardon, and forgiveness, but I've
  never heard of a (sestina) is there a relatively easy definition defining
  the style, it seams to be a style that is very much like the pomes I have
  written. Thank you Paul E Baver----- Original Message ----- 
  From: <KajunCutie926 at aol.com>
  To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
  Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 6:13 PM
  Subject: [stylist] Sharing my earliest sestina House of Cards

  With all the talk of Sestina's today I wanted to share with my first
  attempt written about 8 years ago.  At the time this so taxed my brain and
  I
  wasn't sure I would ever attempt another but of course, I did.  I have
  attached it as well. I do hope you enjoy this very feeble attempt.

  House Of Cards
  (sestina)

  Once upon another time she lived
  In a fragile house of cards.  She  knew
  Only that she was sheltered, never heard
  The winds of change that  silently
  Blew against the coated-paper walls
  Of her blissful existence,  until it crumpled.

  She found herself alone amid the crumpled
  Ruins of the life she had  known, no longer lived
  Behind the sanctity of sacred walls
  Which kept its  secrets.   Innocence knew
  It would die in shame, silently
  Lying in  the ruins of her being. Unheard.

  The Knave had claimed he heard
  No denial or admonition and she  crumpled,
  Allowing the lifeless cards to fall silently
  One by one.   In darkness lived
  The Kings and Queens.  Only Innocence knew
  Evil  had shattered the paper walls.

  She picked through discarded walls
  Searching for treasured Innocence but  heard
  Only silence.  Laughter, she knew,
  Lay buried in the life now crumpled
  And yet she survived.  She  lived
  To carry the secrets within her silently.

  And time, in its fashion, ticked silently
  Within her soul.  She  woke one day to find walls
  Of Faith where debris once lived.
  Was that the  whisper of promise heard
  From beneath the dreams crumpled?
  Could she  regain the life she once knew?

  Again, time flexed its knowing muscle for it knew
  That some things must  be borne silently
  And without reprieve.  The life lost in the  crumpled
  Ruins would not return to thrive within the walls
  Of yesterday.  Truth's hammer clearly heard
  As it rang through dreams not  lived.

  And in her soul she knew, that no longer would walls
  Stand by silently,  ignoring the whispers heard
  While the house crumpled, burying what once  lived.

  © March 2004

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