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Unread 08-08-2002, 02:01 AM
A. E. Stallings A. E. Stallings is offline
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One of Rhina's lovely sonnets, with an unusual rime scheme, is being featured today (August 8th) on Verse Daily, a nice new site along the lines of Poetry Daily. Verse Daily
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Unread 08-08-2002, 05:34 AM
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What a goil.

Thanks, Alicia,

Peter
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Rhina, Congratulations! And thanks Alicia for letting us know.

Such superb lines! Like

"...Desire is all there is to keep us here.

...Just once, I think, release your touch
on that hard substance, life, and you go free..."

Talk about mystical poets! Rhina is one of them, as this shows.

Terese
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Unread 08-09-2002, 05:40 PM
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Thanks, Alicia, and thanks, guys, for the kind comments. This is a Dorn Sonnet, invented by that indefatigable formalist, Alfred Dorn, whose contest--the World Order of Narrative & Formalist Poets Contest--has done so much to spur interest in old and new formal patterns. I love this form he's come up with, for the nervous shifting of rhymes in the octave, its unexpected couplet ending, and then the "settled down" sestet that works like a Petrarchan. Each year I wait for Alfred's guidelines, to see what new challenges he's set up!
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