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The deadline for my first portfolio for this class is itching closer - so prepare yourselves for more poetry and multimedia pieces. In the meantime, I finally polished some of my haikus to produce a little three-act haiku work of art. A haiku, as I’m sure you’ll remember from Primary School, is a short poem made up of three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Traditionally they’re poems about the changing of the seasons, which is what I tried to do.

My result, ‘Til Spring, is behind the cut.

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 I was introduced to the sestina last week during my Creative Writing class. It’s a complicated poem to explain, unless you actually see or hear one. Basically, you have six words (any words of your choosing, but it’s important that you choose nice, flexible words), and each line of the poem you write must end with one of those words. There’s a formula to it, which I’m not going to explain because I’m just going to end up confounding you, but essentially you end up with six stanzas and an envoy of pure poetry joy. 

I’m going to be honest, I found this very difficult and very restricting. Not only did every line have to end with one of the words I picked on a whim one morning, I decided to half-heartedly attempt iambic pentameter in this poem (I definitely have the pentameter right, but I’m not so sure about those blasted iambs). Anyway, what we have under the cut is my first (much revised) attempt at a Sestina. And yes, it is very heavily influenced by the marvellous Iron & Wine. 

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