Another term for unit in poetry is “stanza.” There are different types of stanzas in poetry, some with rhyme patterns and some without. Generally, the name of the stanza has to do with the number of lines in the poem. The shortest would be the couplet (2). Then there’s tercet (3), quatrain (4), cinquain (5), […]
April is National Poetry month, so it’s time for another poem. The poetic style for today will be tanka. This is a five-line poem that is similar to haiku in subject matter (nature). The nature image that I’m going to use for my poem will be the sunflower. In the image above, I had fun
It snowed just two days ago. And the wind blew mightily. People were outside and were putting litter into garbage bags to celebrate Earth Day, but the litter blew around. And everything blew around. So I felt inspired to create this picture in pan pastels of a snowflake surrounded by color and swirling winds. The
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On the shore of the island, Bearnacle Bear and his three pirate companions looked out to sea. They sat quietly, as each one of them was transfixed by the water, by the position of the sun in the sky, by the places out of sight and, for the time being, out of reach. The island
In my career as a human being, I have doubted myself over and over again. I read that people are their own worst critics, and that is certainly true for me. I gave up art at the age of 15 when I suddenly and with little reason decided that I couldn’t draw. Actually, there was
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There is something interesting to see in any place that you are… Mostly, I’m going to be focusing on the cherry blossoms in Buffalo…. but I had to say something about this picture that I took on Grand Island of a group of turkeys, apparently out for their late morning run along the river. In
On a rocky coast, far from home, Bearnacle Bear and three pirates sat and watched the ocean. It had calmed down since the wild storm that caused the pirate ship to list wildly. The tender that they used to get away from the ship was damaged and possibly not sea worthy. They looked to the
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Grand Island’s annual Garden Walk is scheduled for July 14. Today, I am sharing images of native plant species from last year’s Garden Walk. They were found in the Alt farm, owned by Nicole Gerber and Dave Reilly! (almost #wordlesswednesday) Native species attract the most pollinators. summer flowers are so colorful. so beautiful…. I’m kind
Aboard the pirate ship: part two It was late at night, and, on board the pirate ship, all of the sailors had eaten their food and had enjoyed many tastes of the purloined honey and jam. The entire crew had celebrated with jugs of something unidentifiable and alcoholic and surely full of rum, which made
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Today, I am sharing images of things that live so beautifully that you can’t help but notice them. When I was much, much younger, I was afraid of bees, probably because I didn’t know what would cause them to sting. For the same reason, I was afraid of balloons because the popping hurt my ears,
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