• Here is the Eye’s Open sonnet. Thank you, Richard, for helping me understand the nuances of a sonnet

    Was born with eyes wide-open on that day,
    to be prepared for seeing every truth …
    not wanting to offend in any way,
    for what had happened up there on the roof.

    While holding onto pasts, like in a box …
    we crawled, we stood, we soon beg…Read More

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  • This is my “Magic of Poetic Voice” submission

    The Beast Confession
    Confessions are made to come from the heart
    To make you feel the weight of it
    Whether is it good or bad from the start
    I need you to sit and understand me a bit

    I wandered into a space without time
    Alone with my thoughts
    Never hoping that someone could be…Read More

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      This is my Magic of Poetic Voice submission
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      The Beast Confession
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      ·Confessions are made to come from the heart
      To make you feel the weight of it
      Whether is it good or bad from the start
      I n…Read More

  • hopin to receive partial credit for late assignments…

    swore under oath

    rationality
    face down hands cuffed to my tongue
    heart screams alibi

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    • Love it, Dru ⭐

      Excellent, in every sense of the word: counts, directives, and intent in following in the spirit that one of the truly tangible facets of what the Senryu is meant to convey.

      For me, your Senryu literally strives to express needed fervor for acceptance and the strife to be trusted and believed-in, even though the opposite may appear…Read More

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    SESSION FIVE
    Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
    This session is “The MAGIC of POETIC VOICE.”

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    WHAT IN THE HECK “IS” The MAGIC of POETIC VOICE?
    by Richard W. Jenkins, MFA
    ©2002

    After reading, closely studying, and writing poetry with considerable depth for many ye…Read More

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  • Senryu
    Haunted

    A single tear drops
    Haunted by her lost lover
    Will always love him

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    • Halloween may be over, Fia 👻

      But, you’ve learned the trick of keeping the ghostly treat of love’s forever haunting passion vibrantly alive, and what better than a beautifully laid Senryu to share it all with us in such a sweet way … maybe, a lover’s spell will be cast, returning “him” to your warming, tear-filled heart and arms.

      Your i…Read More

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