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The poem is an Italian Sonnet with a French Sestet and a Haiku juxtaposed between the octave and the sestet: What we now call the Gregorian Sonnaiku .
Contest: For The Pros!
by Andy Stephenson
I want to see why you get all those trophies. Must have 50 trophies to enter. One entry per writer. Fresh writes get extra consideration. Prewrites allowed. If you enter a form poem, please explain the form in your author's comments; blank, free, rhyme, haiku and pixiku are understood. Also in your author's comments, tell me briefly why you are so successful. Poems only. Form and subject are open.
What makes me a pro poet? I am a student of English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal. I have been reading and writing poetry since I was a child as a reason for escaspism from a battered home life. I become serious in high school after I was published in our local paper and then went on to win the top award for Alberta students in amatuer poetry contests. With continued support from my high school treacher and ridicule by family members I continued to pen through my teens and young adulthood. Latr in my twenties, a college professor became my mentor and soon I was giving public performances of my works. I pay particular attention to not only the classics and traditional forms, but explore and dable in modern, beat and new forms that are always being developed as poetry evolves. I am not nervous to make mistakes and to learn from critques, they allow me to grow in my field. I am a firm believer in intertexuality in poetry, to place images and references to deepen a poem's meanings. I work on my poetry every day, setting aside an hour or two to at least pen a few lines or work on a masterpiece. I have been fortunate in my poetry career, my muses have given more than one good poem on page, and it is this that I am most proud of being a poet.
“When it is darkest, you can see the stars!” -- Emmerson
Gregorian Sonnaiku (How To Write This New Form—Learning Column)
allpoetry.com/Column/1043872
Matthew Shepard Foundation
www.matthewshepard.org/
A Tribute To Matthew Wayne Shepard
www.texasdude.com/matthew.htm
Written March 16th, 2005
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And I'm happy again because it's one that hasn't yet won one of my contests -you winning would be fair
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