Six Word Poems
Six words are easy to swallow.
Everyone should write six word poems.
Love, an absurd thing to hate.
Here are some of my favourite six worders:
The instant is of total darkness ~ Clarice Lispector.
For sale: baby shoes. Never worn ~ Ernest Hemingway
My body was a latent shout ~ Fernando Pessoa
The profound joy: the secret ecstasy ~ Clarice Lispector
April is poetry month.
I want all you writers and readers to celebrate poetry by committing to a daily microdose of poetry! April is not the cruellest month!
Here's your brief guide on safe poetic microdosing:
Stevi-Lee Alver is an Australian writer and tattoo artist. She lives in the middle of Brazil with her wife. She loves bush walks and waterfalls but misses the ocean.
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Well Old Son: Part One
I Tangled stars hang like barbed wire in mutilated skies, in blemished horizons of empty-green & broken-blue lines. A single image: female, stretched sideways, effortless hills, faded rosebuds, scarred thighs, haunts the darkness of closed eyes.
By Stevi-Lee Alverabout a year ago in Poets
One, Two, Three, Four, Five
I have a wee piece on page 30 of Issue 33 of The Pagans of North Magazine, 'One, Two, Three...' I was inspired by the nursery rhyme which goes on 'Once I caught a fish alive...' and was surprised to discover the original was about catching a hare... Much more in the folklore nature....
By Alyson Smith 4 days ago in Poets
To Give Your Last Twenty
He walks oddly, shuffling and nearly tripping down the hallway toward his apartment door. I slow my pace, allowing my neighbor— a stuffy ex-marine with one missing tooth and a strong odor of liquor and two weeks' worth of unwashed stench always accompanying him—to reach his door. I crinkle my nose, nearly gagging as he dawdles ahead.
By Ashley4 days ago in Motivation
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I never knew six word poems were a thing looking forward to trying my hand at them