[stylist] Jackie, about the form used for my poem Interpretations

[Lynda Lambert]

I agree with you, Jackie!

Lynda





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacqueline Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Jackie,about the form used for my poem 
Interpretations


> Myrna,
> I just love your phrase, Tumbling Tercets.
> You are a very inventive poet, and you may well be one of those "New
> Formalists.:"
> I have a sister who has gone through most of the poetic forms listed in 
> the
> book, "Awakening the Poet Within" by Anne Gassar, and then she developed 
> her
> own off-shoots. I try some of that, but I do not feel comfortable unless I
> know the traditional form automatically. Somehow, I feel a form poem 
> easier
> to deal with as a blind person. The structure of something is definable by 
> a
> "white cane" . It takes tremendous concentration to keep the format in 
> mind,
> but I take it as a drill to keep the mind agile and working in precision
> mode.
> I love discussions of different forms and then trying them.
> I admire your creativity and talent.
> Jackie
>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:42 PM
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> Subject: [stylist] Jackie, about the form used for my poem Interpretations
>
> Thank you so much Jackie!  The form is as a said  a nonce form I made up
> one day using the simple tercet.  What makes this a  bit different is that 
> I
>
> let the third line of the tercet flow into the first  line of the next
> tercet.  You can use as many tercets as you wish as long  as the flow
> pattern of
> third line flowing into first line is followed all the  way through.  The
> line lengths are not restricted and it is not metered but  that is an 
> option
>
> that is left to the individual writer. I have found however  that keeping
> the
> line lengths somewhat consistent, without too great a  variation, helps 
> the
> flow of the poem.  You may have a line of ten  syllables, then eight, and
> then perhaps nine.  As I said this is up to the  writer.  I added another
> wrinkle recently in that after the last stanza you  may add a one or two
> line
> envoi.  I have this form 'tumbling  tercets'.  I do not know if anyone had
> done it quite this way before  although, of course, tercets are very 
> common.
> I
> will share another using  an envoi to demonstrate what that is all about.
> Thank you so much for your  questions and interest in the form.  I like it
> because it has that little  bit of structure while allowing me to write in
> free verse.
>
> Myrna
>
>
>
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