Pure Verse for Christmas

Wrapping up a 26 blog posts about poetry during 2017, Writers Ink Services is presenting Pure Verse for Christmas.

Yes, we take a look at two classic Christmas poems, including "The Night Before Christmas", as well as two that should be classics.

And three video clips of classic Christmas songs and movies.

Join us!

Seduced by Pure Verse

Pure Verse:  Seduced by Rhythm and Rhyme

Over at Writers Ink Services, we're concluding a yearlong examination of poetry craft.  We've looked at "Clocks" and "Counting Stars", "Both Sides Now" and "Tapestry", "First Fig" and "Wildflowers".  We've looked at major poets and songsters who deserve the title "major poet".  And we glanced at Occasional Poems.

Christmas is the greatest occasion during the year, and poets of all sorts can't resist writing their own version of a Christmas poem.

Herewith are the dangers of Pure Verse that so many wannabies and newbies and hacks fall into while the true poets manage to avoid those pitfalls.

We finish up this blog with Sara Teasdale (true poet!) and her "Christmas Carol".  You'll like it, I know.  You may even want to make it one of your Christmas traditions.

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Only one more blog for the year on poetry.  On Christmas day we examine Pure Verse Old Masters and New Ones.  Join us.
~ Emily R. Dunn

As for Edie Roones:  well, life got ahead of me this year:  a major change in career, a major move entailing a house for sale and packing things into storage within a three-week time frame, and then relatives getting married, and all sorts of other good stuff.  I have the beautiful Smokies within 30 minutes of me:  the heights, the mountain laurel, the deer and elk, Cades Cove and waterfalls.  I have ideas, I have a couple of sketched drafts, I have characters developed, but I have no book.  I'm working on it.  ;)

M.A. Lee's A Game of Hearts has a new cover!

Another new cover for M.A. Lee:  this time for A Game of Hearts.

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