What do you get from all the violence
it takes to keep things as they are? #sestina #themolochiteverses
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I'm honored to see my poem, "Tiller and Shears," appear in Issue #104 of Neologism Poetry Journal: www.neologismpoetry.com/January-2026/. I'm crazy proud of this piece!
#poetry #poem #sestina #writing #neologismpoetry #icarus #garden #lgbtq @neologismpoetry.bsky.social
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Nightmares I want to be at peace, blanketed, cocooned, and safe Soothing a weary body that pleads with me for rest Though when evening spreads its claws, panic rises within Sleep, I know, comes only with a certain fear For in my unconscious hell-black storms rage Torturous moments relived through surreal sensations. I do not know why I still feel such deep sensations Thinking time and distance would make me safe But I cannot heal when my head spills with rage Instead, I reject compulsions to lie down and take my rest Fingers groping for ways to break free from this fear And drive out the demons that torment me within. Every trauma faced, I feel must be trapped within No right to subject the world to unnamed sensations Secrets are kept, tongue bitten, mouth stitched with fear And from my ordeals, those I love must be kept safe Allow their bedded-havens to offer them rest I walk cold-footed in midnight halls to outpace the rage. But I cannot sustain my body with rage Or sate the call of sleep from within I know I must go to my bed and take rest Submit my mind to the terrible sensations Travel to the place where I can never be safe To the part of me that nightly re-lives fear. Clutching my blanket as a shield from the fear I quieten my breath, preparing to battle the rage Tell myself no matter what comes I am safe These curses are only projections from within I can take control of these wicked sensations Banish them from my time of rest. But closed eyes offer neither respite nor rest Gritted shut with the salt of the memories I fear Breath serves only to stretch invading sensations As I'm dragged into the darkness by rage My bed a reflected hellscape of what is within In no corner of which I feel safe. This cycle of unrest dooms me to a state of constant rage. As my sanity is tested by fear seeping from within. No respite from these sensations, not even open eyes are safe.
Ok, chaps, here is my attempt.
(Sorry about the small writing)
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#nightmares #sestina #poem
##OurPoetryX #Blanketed
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After a very busy weekend I joined @saloneurope.bsky.social #Sestina #poetry course. 39 lines, 6 stanzas of 6 lines, plus a tercet "envoi." End words repeat per rigid structure. It was FABULOUS. I wrote stuff. And I highly recommend that brain game for a great night's sleep afterwards.
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Oh bother. I attempted a sestina, learned why form pushes back, and discovered a smaller, sharper teacher along the way. Notes from the near-miss (and the tritina that saved me).
#SkyPoet #Poetry #PoetsofBlueSky #Sestina #Tritina
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#NATE #SESTINA
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#LANDMARK #CONFERENCE
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Ever start to compose rhyme But then stop, when you just happen to find Smatterings of moments, outside time Shattering psyche, with past ties that bind To raise an unquiet inside your mind That lasts until your heart & soul align? I have attempted to make mine align By continuing with purpose for rhyme In my journey thus far, I seem to find Poets & artists that I keep in mind For their wisdom helps, when I'm in a bind This loyal support makes good friends, in time
I spoke with one poet, lost track of time Between languages, our words would align Gave me an invite to Discord, a bind For I wasn't sure they would like my rhyme & had no knowledge of what I would find As the anxiety raced through my mind I said hi, dropped an intro, pay no mind Hung out in the chat, for some length of time Slowly warmed up to the poets I'd find & took note of our values that align Then I posted a poem that chimes with rhyme As nervous knots held me firm in their bind
Reception was warm, no longer in bind A sense of belonging engulfed my mind Inspired me to keep writing in rhyme Suddenly, after lending bits of time Helping community refine, align A note in my inbox, what's this I find? I open the message, only to find The architect of this space had a bind She needed a full mod to help align The group, as the last one couldn't mind His manners & was banned for all time My reply: 'I'll safeguard this place of rhyme' I gratefully find, inside of my mind The pieces I bind, have healed with time I feel them align, to create this rhyme
Binding Rhyme, Together
#poetry #writing #sestina #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
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good recording, Jonathan! love the background music, and it gives the spoken words a jazzy, big band feel to liven the performance, feels like old Beat poets - Kerouac, Ginsberg type style!
#poems #poet #poem #recording #audio #substack #NewOrleans #sestina #JonathanPotter (American poet, #Montreal)
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"The sestina is the Bobby Knight of poetic forms: a tight sweater shoving words into predetermined zones." -- Terrance Hayes
Teaching the sestina next week!
#PoetryMatters #UICENGL #sestina
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Behold a #sestina. Why did I write a #sestina? For my wife of course! Also I wrote a surprising amount of them today. Send help and nutrients.
#poem #poetry #writing #poetsky #formpoetry
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I follow each one of those Who scribes, in perilous fear of their prose Or stations joy, in happy little rows Of open hearts that cannot seem to close The lines to dance & flit before they're posed While some new poetic license now grows My body of work tapers as it grows Except when writing poetry for those With meter or structure, stood up & posed Which makes for more delightful sounding prose But something's missing, a stanza to close So lines are tested, in fresh free verse rows
Composed in the rain, near tenement rows These words fall right out, a puddle formed, grows I sing to my fear, in hope now to close Every line made with care, polishing those That always seem to be threadbare of prose I refine the words, now exactly posed Verses loose, fully formed, already posed Every line, like an oar, this poet rows Direct to the shore, with power of prose The beachhead is there, I see it, it grows A couple more lines, to be one of those Poems that start strong, yet never seem to close
Play with phrases, seeking to maybe close A series of questions my mind has posed Hopefully dispel or rewire those That cause me distress, as anxiousness grows Failures find purchase in columns & rows A matrix designed, in my head with prose The finishing blows, my flurry of prose Which spill on the page, a chapbook will close Around my new works, the count of which grows Every poem set, in the order I posed All of my thoughts, rearranged in neat rows For others to read (especially those) This poet longs for those, lines made of prose That form into rows, to hurriedly close Queries I've posed, or anxiety grows
Prose Rows (a rhyming sestina)
#poetry #writing #sestina #rhyme
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I did an exercise in hating myself by asking for some words (provided by @daveashleypoet.bsky.social and @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social ) and adding in the #Emoetry and #blueskyrelay prompts, to make a sestina.
It fried my brain, as you can probably tell from the results.
#Wanderlust #Flight #Sestina
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I have posted a couple John under the #sestina tag
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NIÑA DETAINEE’S #SESTINA
(excerpt)
It’s this reception that’s overwhelming.
Shivering in fear, through nights of delay –
thermal sheets on concrete at the border.
Whining like animals cruelly caged,
some have died, more won’t come out as children,
but we found new family together.
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#Sestina week. YEY! I'll be trying to write at least 2 this week as I find them challenging. Please join in and tag with the prompt #Sestina
as ever, form rules below. If you need any other help get in touch and I'll find better sites for you
www.writersdigest.com/personal-upd...
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#creativewritingprompt from yesterday's #twitch stream. (I was too tired to post it yesterday ) A #sestina is apl poetry form that doesn't require internal meter or need to rhyme.
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As early as 2013 a Nobel prize in chemistry went to scientist behind algorithms.
2. Sestina is a form of poem that follow an algorithm, for the words in the last line in every stanza. I wanted to write code for what.
3. Here's sestina stanzas from above algorithm
#sestina #digitalart #nobelprize
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Poems about bones - a sestina and a villanelle.
Since bones give our body structure, poetic forms seem a natural choice.
#poetry #poetrysky #substackpoets #arthritis #newpoems #sestina #villanelle
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Anyone else have a sestina to own up to?!
#poems #poetry #poeticform #sestina
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