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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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      SESSION FOUR
      Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
      This session will be on the Japanese Senryu form.

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      SENRYU 川柳
      (sin-rew)

      A Japanese 3-line, unrhymed form of mostly human theme, similar to the Haiku in that it consists of 3-lines of 5/7/5 syllables each, completely without punct…Read More

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      • SPECIAL NOTES:

        [example 1, of course, violates the no rhymes rule, but I wanted to show it anyway as a possibility of using the basic Senryu format’s flexibility]

        [examle 3 | repeated from above in proper format]

        K A T A N A

        sharp samurai soul
        forged folded tempered by fire
        victorious dreams

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