[stylist] Thank you Paul & link to Sestina directions and information

Tue Apr 3 01:15:45 UTC 2012

And remember as I said.. the first one is the  hardest.  I enjoy writing 
structured poetry as well as free verse.  I  have developed some nonce forms 
that have caught on and I love to others trying  them.. if there is anything 
I can help you with just let me know.. you can email  me at my personal 
email if you wish.  I used to moderate a 'Form' challenge  on a site I post on 
so I can go into the vaults and gets lots of information on  quite a few 
forms... always willing to help.
You are more than welcome  Paul...
Myrna

In a message dated 4/2/2012 7:26:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
pebaver at verizon.net writes:

Myrna  this is greatly appreciated, I will check it out. Paul E Baver
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Subject:  [stylist] Thank you Paul & link to Sestina directions and  
information

Paul... here is a link to Wikopedia's article  on  Sestina's that also
include the line/word placing chart.  I  really can't  say it's easy 
directions
but it is pretty  concise.  With many forms, the  first one is that hardest.
And  thank you for the kind words.  I have  written some since this first  
one
but it will always be my  favorite.
Here is the  link...

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestina_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestina)

Myrna

In  a message dated 4/2/2012 5:57:03 P.M. Central Daylight  Time,
pebaver at verizon.net writes:

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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