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Author: Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet
Alina Happy Hansen is a writer, poet, and blogger based in San Francisco. Besides writing nearly 24/7 and reading stacks of books, Alina enjoys watching classic horror films and listening to Stoner Metal. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in English with a Minor in Writing and Rhetoric Studies from The University of Utah.
Poetic Forms: Villanelle
Here we go! Another discussion on the basics of poetic forms, this time Villanelles. (Link for History of Villanelles) A Villanelle is comprised of nineteen lines, 5 stanzas of three lines each with a final stanza of four lines, the rhyme scheme is aba here’s where it gets tricky, 1st line of 1st stanza repeats as…
Like Pitted Nectarines (poem #277)
Blossoming eyes losing focus on the edges of photographs, blur me out, hollow and sweet like pitted nectarines. A Note About this Poem: I imagined an old photograph with girls smiling, happy, and joyful but the knowledge that they all must be dead or alive somewhere very very old weighs the photograph down. Thank you…
Burn Like Evergreens (poem #276)
The sun dies down and I am slowly eclipsing who I used to be. Will you burn like evergreens in the summer? Will you hold onto the fingers, the hands that pulled you into this world? Will you let them take you out? A Note About this Poem: For this poem, I was inspired…
Poetic Forms: Sonnet
Let’s talk about Sonnets! I wanted to do something different today and decided a short discussion on sonnets would be fun. There are Two Major Sonnet Forms: Petrarchan and Shakespearean The Basic Form of a Sonnet is Fourteen Lines in Iambic [ U unstressed syllable / stressed syllable ] [ u/ u/ u/ u/…