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“Luctus Herbarium”

2020-10-18
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“Meeting with Tlāloc”

2020-10-16
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“Cercis canadensis”

2020-10-06
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Visit brianfuchs.com for full post with clickable Visit brianfuchs.com for full post with clickable links.Here are some websites that can help you if you need a little assist in your poetry writing. List of 168 Poetic Forms for Poets (article on writersdigest.com) - This is a fantastic list by Robert Lee Brewer of various poetic forms, from haiku to acrostic. I've found it helpful when I'm not feeling particularly poetic to tackle one of these forms.SyllableCounter.net - I love using this tool, but it can be a little tricky. I use it to broadly get a poem to have consistency, but if the syllables are important you'll still want to count them yourself. It doesn't get everything perfectly correct, especially with contractions. It's nice to start with though. Line lengths can be misleading.RhymeZone.com - I don't do a lot of rhyming, particularly at the ends of lines. I do use this site quite a bit though. It's great when playing with a rhyme scheme in a poetic form you are playing with.Thesaurus.com - Feeling stuck? Try for a new word. I use this often and primarily early on in writing. I'm wary of synonyms. It's rare that two words would have the exact same usage in a language.Wiktionary.org - Honestly, there are a million and one online dictionaries. I like this one because it is simple, ad free, and includes translations in multiple languages. It also is very comprehensive.Wikipedia.com, Random Article - I love choosing a random Wikipedia article and writing about it. It can be a poem or a blog post or whatever, but it is a challenge. There are so many things I know nothing about, but that doesn't mean I can't be inspired by something I learn about them.Artnet.com - One of my major inspirations in art. I love to pull up a piece of art I love and sit with it for days and let it influence my writing. Sometimes nothing comes of it, but often it feels like it becomes a part of the process.#poetry #poetrywriting #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #writing
Justice feels rare these days. Maybe a little hope Justice feels rare these days. Maybe a little hope is okay today. Maybe.
I'd rather have those three days of feeling awful I'd rather have those three days of feeling awful than have COVID-19. Please get your vaccine when you are able. It helps everyone.I'll resume my poetry picks later today. I literally couldn't get out of bed over the weekend, so.... #covidvaccine #moderna #thankyoudollyparton @dollyparton
Written 15 December 1998 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bria Written 15 December 1998 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Brian Fuchs, “Oklahoma City” from Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Scissortail Press, 2020)#oklahomacity #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #poetryofinstagram #oklahomapoetry #oklahomapoet #okc #oklahoma #1995
Someone’s fully vaccinated... two weeks & I can Someone’s fully vaccinated... two weeks & I can get back to my life of staying at home all the time.
Ruth Muskrat Bronson was a poet and member of the Ruth Muskrat Bronson was a poet and member of the Cherokee Nation. She worked as the first Guidance and Placement Officer in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as being one of the first Native American women to represent The United States when she went to Peking, China for an international youth conference. This experience inspired her Indigenous rights activism. She called for Indigenous Americans to be involved in decisions affecting their lives and spent the rest of her life working for the welfare of Native Americans.Songs of the SpavinawI am the river of Spavinaw, I am the river of pain;Sadness and gladness must answer my law;Measure for measure I give, and withdrawBack through the hills of the Spavinaw, Hiding away from the plain.I am the river of Spavinaw; I sing the songs of the world;Dashing and whirling, swishing and swirling,Delicate, mystical, silvery spray hurling, Sing I the songs of the world, The passionate songs of the world.I sing of laughter and mirth, And I laugh in a gurgle of gleeAs the myriad joys of the earth Trip through the light with me.Gay shallows dimple, sparkle and ripple. Like songs that a lover would sing, Skipping in moonlight, Tripping in moonlight, Whispering echoes of spring.And again I move with the slow sadness of pain.In my dark blue deep, where the shadows creep, I catch up life’s sorrows and mirror them back again.And my song is a throbbing, pitiful sobbing, Choked by an agonized pain.And then I move forth toward the beckoning north, And I sing of the power of men. As I dash down my falls, As I beat at my wallsFrantically fighting, running and righting,All through the flood, through the snarling and biting, I sing of the power of men, Of the hurry and power of men. I am the river of Spavinaw, I am the giver of pain;Sadness and gladness must answer my law;Measure for measure I give, and withdrawBack through the hills of the Spavinaw, Hiding away from the plain.Ruth Muskrat Bronson, “Songs of the Spavinaw”#nativeamerican #indigenousamerican #cherokee #oklahomapoet
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