Denise E Lindquist
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I am married with 7 children, 28 grands, and 13 great-grandchildren. I am a culture consultant part-time. I write A Poem a Day in February for 8 years now. I wrote 4 - 50,000 word stories in NaNoWriMo. I write on Vocal/Medium daily.
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Native Americans At Thanksgiving
When I placed a turkey message on my page on Facebook and got no feedback from family or Native American friends, I knew what that was about. A friend who is very in tune with the Native American culture commented about not "Celebrating Taking Day."
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Families
Messages That Have Helped Me Along The Way!
Stories I was told growing up, culture stories taught me values and lessons. Many in a humorous way. The story about the eagle flying through the center of the storm to get to the other side has been so helpful to me and others.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Psyche
The Wait
The quintilla is a Spanish poetic form that, as you may have guessed from the name, uses five-line stanzas. Here are the guidelines: - Five-line stanzas. - Eight syllables per line. - An ab rhyme scheme in which at least two lines use the “a” rhyme and at least two lines use the “b” rhyme… - But the stanza cannot end with a rhyming couplet. As such, these are the possible rhyme pattern variations: - abaab, ababa, abbab, aabab, aabba Writer’s Digest, Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Friends Were There When I Needed Them! . Top Story - November 2023.
Friends that offered a helping hand and offered cures for cancer are too many to mention. Here are a few for this story. The first thing I think of is when I came out of a respiratory code and was coming off of a respirator, I felt like I was being tortured. The mask over my face, a loud noise coming from near me, and then being strapped down in the bed. As I woke I was scared, until I heard a familiar voice of an old friend.
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Longevity
Dropping What?
Sonnet - a fourteen line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey in the 16th century. Literally a "little song," the sonnet traditionally reflects upon a single sentiment, with a clarification or "turn" of thought in its concluding lines. There is the English sonnet, the Italian sonnet, the Petrarchan sonnet and another seven or more other versions of sonnet. Pinterest
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
How Is That?
A rondeau redoublé consists of six quatrains using two rhymes. The first quatrain consists of four refrain lines that are used, in sequence, as the last lines of the next four quatrains, and a phrase from the first refrain is repeated as a tail at the end of the final stanza. See Dorothy Parker’s “Rondeau Redoublé (and Scarcely Worth the Trouble at That). — Source Poetry Foundation
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
Sports Fan Here
Rondeau - a French poetic form that has 15 lines, three stanzas, and a couple refrains. Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" is a popular example of the rondeau. As with other French forms, there is an element of rhyming and repetition in the rondeau. In fact, the rondeau is related to the triolet. The rondeau is comprised of 15 lines across three stanzas with the first word or phrase from the first line represented as a refrain (R) and a rhyme scheme of two rhymes throughout (A and B). The rhyme and refrain scheme looks like this: A (R), A, B, B, A, A, A, B, R, A, A, B, B, A, R The A and B lines are usually eight or 10 syllables in length. The refrain is usually one to three words (or so). Writers Digest. Robert Lee Brewer
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Poets
