Chronicles of Miss Miseria
https://oizyswrites.blogspot.comA practising self-memoir, recorded as an inconsistent logbook.
Entries
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Another Sunday. It started with hope but the hope was crushed by crankiness. Had planned yesterday to go to the book ...
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As you can notice, I have successfully abandoned my beautifully crafted, loaded-with-hopes NovPoWriMo project with th...
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DAY 7. Marginalia PoetryMarginalia are the notes, arrows, grumbles, doodles, and side-whispers readers leave in the e...
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DAY 6. Misheard PrayersThe term mondegreen was coined by writer Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper’s essay. As a child, s...
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DAY 5. Inventory of What RemainsAn inventory poem catalogs, lists, and tallies. Unlike the bookish errata/corrigenda,...
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DAY 4. Duplex of Two PlacesA duplex is a braid of repetition. Each couplet borrows the previous line, shifts it a lit...
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DAY 3. Corrigenda CrownIn fixed forms, a “crown” often means linked sonnets; we’re adapting the idea: seven linked li...
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DAY 2. Errata SonnetWhat are errata? In publishing, an erratum (singular) or errata (list) is a set of post-print cor...
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DAY 1. Palimpsest of Self"Palimpsest of Self" uses the concept of a palimpsest—a manuscript with original text partia...
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8.05AMThere’s a kind of hush that only the first morning of a new month understands. The sky hasn’t had its tea yet. ...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about where I stand with (which?) religion these days. I still believe there’s something: a ...
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I came across this prompt on the internet: Write a poem about a word that haunts you. Why does it linger? What began ...
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OctPoWriMo Day 31. Happy HalloweenHere we are, Halloween. Congratulations!! I hope you’ve felt inspired and had a lot...
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OctPoWriMo Day 30. Fear from Out of SpaceThis year, James Wyman of Burlington Writers Workshop is offering a poetry 1...
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OctPoWriMo Day 29. Other-worldly MonstersIf you read a lot of older poetry, you may notice that many poems didn’t hav...
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OctPoWriMo Day 28. The Monsters We MakeWe’re getting close to the end of this wonderful journey. We’ve explored senso...
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OctPoWriMo Day 27. Too Big To FailOne thing I love about poetry is the way poems can manipulate time. A poem can repr...