Tag: diastic poems

  • Good Cheer

    I have two poems today. I was originally thinking I’d work from the same text and post them both together, but things didn’t work out as planned. They’re distinctly different and each deserves its own post. The first is a diastic poem I wrote this morning using this article as a source text and the…

  • July 2, 2023

    Diastic poems keep pulling me back…I was thinking about my attempt to do one with the word chair a couple weeks ago. For the heck of it, I figured I might try again but with the Pyne blog post.   changed those seasons national federal compassing where that dominated federal control the Alaska dedicated entire…

  • June 11, 2023

    Today I did a diastic, with the seed word “fire,” of the blog post I used for my erasure yesterday. I thought I could improve the final result by editing it down and eliminating some of the “clutter” (so a sort of “erasure on top of diastic”).   fire life fire hired North Rim done…

  • Two Failed (?) Diastics

    OK, so I guess I am back to chance games. I read an enchanting little blog post about an amphitheater in Milan, and thought I might use it as the source text for a diastic with the seed word chairs, just on a whim to try something different from the more serious project of the last…