"Our words, our thoughts, have no intrinsic shape:
my version of the night is not your night,
despite experience’s common form.
Yet rhymes, like waves, may glitter in the sun:
and meter, like a month, may hold the moon,
and verses may burn brighter than the day."

https://seanpatrick.phd/2026/05/04/a-sestina-on-form/

#poem #poetry #sestina

I'm honored to see my poem, "Tiller and Shears," appear in Issue #104 of Neologism Poetry Journal: https://www.neologismpoetry.com/January-2026/.

I wrote it last spring, coming out of Jason Mitchell's "Poet's Myth" sessions and going into Christine Salvatore's "Building Worlds" workshop.

I'm crazy proud of this piece!

#poetry #poem #sestina #writing #neologismpoetry #icarus #garden #lgbtq

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍" -

A winter estrangement. Contraction, expansion and opening, drafts from the darkness too close.

https://buff.ly/4hMUX1h

#sestina #fingertrapsestina #winter #friendship #aging #estrangement

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒆" -

I account for the results of my fingertrap sestina experiment with a sample poem.

https://buff.ly/3EoN5V5

#sestina #poem #poetrystructure #formsofpoetry #hybridpoetry #experimentalpoetry #whirlingstill #originalpoem

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑵𝒖𝒕𝒔 & 𝑩𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒔 & 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒑 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒔" --

Part 2 on my new hybrid form of poetry, the "fingertrap" sestina. This one gets technical, moving from 𝘸𝘩𝘺 I created it to 𝘩𝘰𝘸. I review the creation of the rules for the form and the meanings attached to them. Next week's final part will discuss the result of this experiment.

https://buff.ly/42pJIaz

#poetry #hybridpoetry #hybridform #writingpoetry #sestina #poetryrules #formsofpoetry

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎" --

Tensions, resistance, doubling-down, or just an itch to try and invent something? Either way, hybrid poetic forms are the real tradition of writing verse.

https://buff.ly/3PD0HhO

#poetry #writingpoetry #sestina #hybridpoetry #hybridpoem

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑨 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓-𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒑 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂" --

https://buff.ly/4gEOt4i

An experiment with a hybrid form of sestina I'm calling a "Finger-trap." More iterations of this form may follow!

#sestina #experimentalpoetry #hybridpoem #consumerism

Nekrosestina

Leaves of gold and red make the announcement.
We’ve been sleeping, trusting life’s green driver.
Now we see: soil’s rich and grave appeal
Draws us down and grants eternal access
To the vast decay. Death’s governor
Teaches us how saprophytes conceive....

https://cacorbell.com/2024/11/21/nekrosestina/
#poetry #sestina