Mark Releases a Monarch at School
Photo by Liz L.
Students - Sometimes you might read something...and you love it! When this happens, as a writer, you might say to yourself, "I want to try that." I had such a moment last Poetry Friday.
Last week, when I read Robyn Hood Black's enchanting Mural Compass from J. Patrick Lewis's new THE POETRY OF US, I found the poem delightful and the form interesting too. I learned that form is called a kyrielle. On her blog, Life on the Deckle Edge, Robyn explained it this way:
"This poem is a kyrielle - a centuries-old French form with eight syllables per line and a repeating end line in couplets or quatrains, with a minimum of three stanzas. (Its origins are liturgical; the name comes from Old French kyriele, literally kyrie eleison, from Late Latin, according to Miriam Webster."
It is a lovely thing, indeed, to fall head over heels in love with words and forms and others' writing. We love it for itself and too, for what we learn by reading. Thank you, dear Robyn, for your openhearted poem and for introducing me to this new form too.
This week, let yourself adore the WAY something is written. Say, "I am going to try that." And then...do.
Or, to go in a completely different direction, allow yourself to find a writing idea in mathematics. As we raised and released monarchs this summer, I found myself amazed again and again at the truth of only one in ten (possibly fewer) monarchs making it from egg to butterfly. You can follow this equation from stanza to stanza in this kyrielle.
For those of you who know how I love and collect words, of course I just added kyrielle to my word list. Magnificent!
Tabatha is hosting this week's Poetry Friday roundup at The Opposite of Indifference with a Goethe poem about friendship....and an opportunity to take part in a one time winter poem swap! Each week we gather together, sharing poems, books, and poetry ideas all at one blog. All are always welcome to visit, comment, and post.
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