Entranced
“Are you all right?” he asked, and I stared down the dim-lit tunnel of the past entranced by ghosts who flickered into view and one by one began to drift, themselves entranced and drawn into a halo-snare of amber light. So deep within my reverie was I, I did not feel the cold as he removed his warm hand from my arm. I did not feel him drift away despite the chill, the gooseflesh cold and damp along my spine. Long-buried specters stealthily crept near, replacing him with all they had to offer me— cold cowardice and death.
November PAD Chapbook Challenge Archives – Writer’s Digest
Naani Naani Boo Boo
Schoolyard taunts— defiant defense against a bully whose battle cry stings like sticks and stones.
Barbara EhrentreuStephen Bagley
Poetry in Texas and Other States
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Very cute story and poem. My name is Barbara Ehrentreu. Don’t feel bad. You have joined the many over the years who have misspelled it. But yours is a first.
Hahaha… Thanks. That’s obviously a typo. I know how to spell your name.
It’s clearly time to cut my nails though.
I get that! I taught the Nani to my poetry group. Got some good ones.
Haha! YOU spelled “naani” wrong! 😉🤷🏻♀️🤗
Thanks for introducing a new type of poem that I can teach my students. It’s going to be fun seeing what they come up with!
Happy to! I’d love to see what they come up with, too, if they care to share. Have you shown them my invention? https://jahangiri.us/2020/new-poetry-form-the-scala-decima/ It might be a little tricky at first, but I think it offers a bit of freedom, too, and won’t result in sing-songy rhyming verse, even though it does have a hidden rhyme scheme. I’d be delighted to see their poems if they attempt it. They are welcome to post them in comments, here.