had a crash course on how to spackle walls today, and couldn't help thinking, as I was covering up all those holes left from old / re-done wiring, how much it reminded me of writing a #sestina. #writingcommunity #writinglife #diy

The literary #TuringTest still works!
#ChatGPT is getting closer than last time I tried, but it still has problems writing a poem in #sestina form (although it can define it).
It lacks one stanza and for some reason "comprehend" is displaced in the line ending in 5th stanza, and is not used in the finale.
I have no idea why such a strict poetic pattern can't be simulated by a #llm . It really couldn't be lack of data if it knows the definition, right?
Or is it just #avantgarde ?

I can't believe I missed this going up. But...here is my enormous double #sestina culled from the writings of #JordanPeterson and other manly writers. #NickBostrom! #MickeySpillane! #MarquisdeSade! Learn how to be a #man! https://synchchaos.com/poetry-from-noah-berlatsky/

Quiet: A Sestina

I didn’t 100% stick to the rules of a sestina but rules are made to be broken … if you want to read the full poem, click the link!

https://nonas-poetry-corner.blogspot.com/2020/11/quiet-sestina.html?m=1

Thanks for reading. Let me know what you think.

#poem #PoemsByNona #PoemsOfMastodon #poetry #PoetryByNona #PoetryMastodon #poets #PoetsOfMastodon #PoetryCommunity #sestina #writing #WritingCommunity #writers #WritersOfMastodon #PoetryWriters #PoetryWriting #WritingPoetry #art #MastoArt #WritingIsArt #PoetryIsArt #PoetryIsLife #BreakingTheRules

I am truly in awe of the poet Mollika Jai Singh’s beautiful invention, the sestina braid: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G8EuPFzcA1wmwoXOCCRk8fcjwwafwZcmEwzlHg2r6Ag/mobilebasic

#poetry #sestina #sestinabraid #mollikajaisingh #words

Diagram of the form of a #sestina. Looks a lot more like #cryptography or #math than #poetry, to me.

Explanation of what a #sestina is (i only learned about this last night):: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestina

#SouthwestAirlines #Sestina
#poetry #poem (human poem... my first attempt at a sestina, thanks to @BatSara for explaining them to me).

So inspired by @sagetyrtle's #workshop today (https://crowcollectiveworkshops.com/)!

She introduced us to the #prose #sestina

2 stunning examples:

https://gulfcoastmag.org/online/summer-2016/strawberry-girl/
by Maria Alvarez at Gulf Coast

https://www.craftliterary.com/2021/01/27/called-shot-emma-kaiser/
by Emma Kaiser at CRAFT Literary

#amwriting #amreading

E’en now they live, with each her key, his door;
with each their secret room done up in blood –
each thinking that they know the one they wed.

(7 of 7)
#poetry #poem #sestina #horror #BlueBeard #FairyTale

chained him tight with turn of key –
his arms strung from the ceiling of her room.
The leer dripped down his face. No more he'd know
the world beyond that locked and silent door.
His world was knives and fish-hooks, pain and blood.
She made a corpse of him she had not wed.

(6 of 7)
#poetry #poem #sestina #horror #BlueBeard #FairyTale

Sound and secret was her room.
She carried all she needed through the door
and summoned one she nearly might have wed,
had he been happy; still she thrilled his blood.
“And where's your groom?” he asked. – “I do not know;
he hunts.” She led him up and turned the key –

(5 of 7)
#poetry #poem #sestina #horror #BlueBeard #FairyTale

Many were that house's doors.
The bride could choose her own. When thirst for blood
had sent the bridegroom hunting, one small key
came off the ring; the groom would never know
that it had vanished. Ever since they'd wed
she'd waited for her chance to claim this room.

(4 of 7)
#poetry #sestina #horror #BlueBeard #FairyTale

lace and ribbons, carved in blood.
Yet all of this the bride would never know.
His secrets were his own. She left the room
untouched; the groom was glad to learn he'd wed,
at last, a bride whom he could trust. The key
she held was proof against that deadly door.

(3 of 7)
#poetry #sestina #horror #BlueBeard #FairyTale

never, never would she know! –
what secrets dwelt within the man she'd wed.
She would not run them down. Behind the door
forbidden her (though well she held the key)
the bridegroom kept a secret bloody room –
his former brides, all dead, all dressed in blood –

(2 of 7)
#poetry #sestina #horror #BlueBeard #FairyTale

Joy was theirs, the night they wed!
That very morn the groom gave her the keys
to every door of her new home. The blood
within her rose; she danced through every room
that now was hers: save one. A single door,
he said, was his alone. She did not know –

(1 of 7)
#poetry #sestina #horror #BlueBeard #FairyTale

#Poetry #Sestina #ElizabethBishop #Teaching

Today, in English 102, students spent the whole period writing sestinas. I can't think of a better way we could have spent our time. The quietest student, often absent or late, and likely to fail this course, amazed me with his poem. Try your hand at it.

I used green, woods, dark, moon, fox, and free for my main words, writing alongside my students. What will yours be?

https://inspirefirst.com/how-to-write-a-sestina/