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Poetry Insights by (me!) -sandra, writeousmom, topps

 i repainted our fireplace bricks again (4th time); and did a little rearranging with my books.  poetry is now in the upper write

and it's been on my mind; poetry.    i realized there are only two types; only two categories and then just hybrids and subcategories

for the manifestation of a poem there is only  1.  inspired     2. assigned

and for the styles, there is only:    1. puzzle   2. freeform            -then hybrids and subcategories

but any poem that is not free form is in fact, a word puzzle, and there are many different names/labels for those depending on how many lines, rhymes or not; patterns, etc.

i just today had the great pleasure of choosing a new ending for my annual My favorite f words poem

the origin itself is kind of a hybrid between inspired/assigned because,  -the very first time i wrote it, it was because i was -inspired- to write something to complement our Super Bowl Logo Yard Art

and great joy! because, when i am inspired, i will write a poem to complement our yard art, but if i'm not; i don't.   and i believe this is our, 26th, or 27th yard art but i have not written 26 or 27 poems; only a select few really, 

anyway, 

it is also assigned, because rather than write a new from scratch poem each year for Super Bowl, i assigned myself to only change the last couple lines to somehow rhyme with the date of the Super Bowl,   ...LVI  -something to rhyme with six..     LVII   -something to rhyme with 7, and this year, LVIII   -something to rhyme with eight

and it is definitely a word puzzle, and it is designed to be seen, not just heard, because i also had fun with italics, bold, fonts, the very specific placing of the words on the page so that the word S U P E R  B O W L  can be seen vertically, and then have a football outline for a relevant graphic

the whole thing for (me!), the entire process...   all joy!   thank you Jesus.. amen. 

posted by SANDRA HARRISON KAY @ 11:15 PM