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Judgement in A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages

| June 25, 2026

The Judgement tarot card represents rebirth, awakening, and absolution. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a poem. The haiku, titled “one shouldn’t pass their” after the first line, deals with judgement on a more practical level. The poem, “On the Ocean,” is a cento sonnet, or a […]

Poetry Form: Haiku Sonnet

| April 22, 2024

I’ve been back in the swing of working on some form poetry, so I’ve got some new-to-me forms to talk about! The haiku sonnet is a combination of the haiku (or senryu) form and the sonnet form. It also has aspect of the tanka form, which I talked about recently. Simply put, it’s four related […]

Poetry Form: Cento Sonnet

| August 30, 2021

Earlier this month, I talked about sonnets not being quite as difficult as they’d originally seemed to me. And quite some time ago, I explained the cento. But what if you mash them together? Recently, I constructed a cento sonnet, which took lines from existing sonnets and rearranged them together into a cento, which used […]

Poetry Form: Sonnet

| August 2, 2021

The sonnet is a poetry form that has intimidated me for a long time. I’m not great at poems that rhyme or have a tightly prescribed meter. And anyway, Shakespeare, right?! He was so good at sonnets, how can anyone else compare? Turns out, Shakespearean sonnets are but one of the possible forms of sonnets. […]