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Greetings from Paloma! Welcome once again to B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond.
For this week, we feature the work of Eyvind Earle and give you the option of writing a Shadorma (a non-rhyming six-line poem with a syllable count of 3/5/3/3/7/5) – or an Essence. The essence was used in December, but it is good to review the tools in your writing toolbox from time to time.
Created by Emily Romano, the “Essence” consists of two lines of six syllables each. There is an end rhyme (rhyme at the end of the line) and an internal rhyme (rhyme in the middle of the line). You may give your Essence whatever title you desire. For example, take Jan Turner’s essence poem, “Reflection”, found on Shadow Poetry:
Reflection
Orion studs the sky
as tulip buds grow high.
Jan Turner, 2006
The internal rhyme is in blue; the end rhyme is in red. Here is another example, about summer fireworks since the Fourth of July is still prominent in my memory!
Fireworks
Pillar of fire, crackling,
Vulcan’s choir is singing.
Paloma
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For your inspiration I’ve added paintings by Eyvind Earle. If his style seems familiar, it is because he created the backgrounds for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.
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Once you’ve written your post please tag: B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond and MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie, then put your info into the Mr. Linky app. If you ping us back, we’ll be able to read your post ASAP because we will be notified that you’ve written the post (not so with Mr. Linky). Please add your link to the comments if you have any difficulties in linking up.
Have fun!
Paloma
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Interesting revisit .. and love his art work too!
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Couldn’t resist the artwork — have been wanting to share it for a while. Very dreamy! And the form is similar to the forms that use climbing rhyme, so I thought it could be useful. 🙂
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It looks interesting and glad you could get to use that artwork … sounds like a good week!
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Fingers crossed! 🙂
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This is all so beautiful–“essence” sounds a bit tricky, but I’m sure I’ll have a go at it later on. Thank you for being here, inspiring us always.
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Very welcome 🙂
I hope you’ll be able to give it a try 🙂
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Probably… 🙂
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Here you go:
https://postcardsfrompanache.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/summer-heat-for-mindlovemiserys-menageriebps-shadorma-beyond/
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Yay! Very nicely done!
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Thanks, Jen!!
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Another interesting post. Love the painting. great inspiration. Had to give it a try.
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Glad you found it interesting!
I love this artist – a favorite 🙂
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My link https://adaspoetryalcove2.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/essence-and-shadorma-wild-horses/
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Just a slight mash, with some mush… it’s a Monday.
https://juleslongerstrandsofgems.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/another-shade-of-hare-raising-grey-multi-prompts-7-20-s/
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Included this Essence at my daily this morning.
delinquency
in and out, patter feet
some give pout, not all greet
©JP/dh
(I think of Wil Robinson’s robot – from TV’s “Lost in Space” flailing his arms;
“Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!” – though I may have my references askew…
Ah, I think The Robot says things like: ‘Danger Wil Robinson’, And ‘Warning’ –
‘Intruder Alert’ – I think comes from the computer of the Star-Trek series.)
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Ah! Very interesting, Jules — nicely done ‘essence’! 🙂
You may be right about Intruder alert 😉
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