What poetry would you write to the love of your life?

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• Write your love a poem
• See what ocmes back
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Some poems for you to contemplate and perhaps wonder:

• Why is this poet not considered one of the great masters of the Japanese short form
• Could you have lived as he did
• What brings you joy in life

Now perhaps you're inspired to write some haiku / senryu or even tanka.

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• Get some expert advice on how to write scifiku
• Be ready for the submission period 1-15 Feb 2025
• Write

Check out the submission diary.

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If you want a how to write split sequences I have a workshops for you by Peter Jastermsky.

Today you will hear:

• Solo sequences
• Collaborative sequences
• A sequence by host Patricia and Peter Jastermsky

Hope you enjoy it.

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This is the very last Poetry Peacast of season 7, a special one, full of your original tanka poetry.

Thank you to all of you loyal listeners and all my new poet friends who have joined us this year. It’s a treat for me to spend time with you and to read your work during the submission periods.

I enjoy the comments that our lovely editing team make when we read your work and I learn so much from the interaction with them, so thank you to all the members of the various teams, Liam, Robert, Vandana, Lev, Matt, Linda, Shane and Richard and to two of the team who left this year Ron and Lorraine. Much love to you all.

I do need some team members who would be interested in helping to get the Poetry Pea facebook group up, running and continuing. Volunteer if you can and tell me what would you like and expect from us on Facebook? I’m pretty clueless as I haven’t really used it, but I’ll learn…

To everyone who keeps me on my toes with emails, I thank you for them, I can be slow in getting back to you, but I do read all my emails and do my best.

Thanks not just to poets who submitted to the tanka submissions but also to the judges who stepped up to help me, Matt Defibaugh, Robert Horrobin and Lev Hart, but also to Allyson Whipple, who not only judged but sat in for me on the recording of the judging when I was in a bit of a pickle. She’s a star… and you may know this already but she is taking on the editorship of Frogpond Journal next year. Good luck to you Allyson, I hope that won’t mean we hear less from you. Do support Allyson in her new role and inundate her with your work, when you’re not sending it to me of course.

See you next week for season 8!

This week a festive Poetry Peacast, with some Christmassy poetry from our November Video Prompt on YouTube. Thanks to Linda L Ludwig who curates this feature. It is rapidly becoming a standout feature of the podcast. Congratulations to the poets who have been chosen to feature.

In the spirit of Christmas may I wish all of you a very happy time of the year, whether you are celebrating or not.

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How do you get onto this list? Check out the show notes

Congratulations to all the poets featured today, the culmination of all the work we've done together this year.

Why do you need to have a listen to this week's and last week's podcasts? Well because the first submission period of 2025, yes, 2025 is nearly upon us, and it's scifiku. Just scifiku.

One of the last things Debbie said to me was something along the lines that she wouldn’t be her if she didn’t write about Mars. So I’d like you to follow in Debbie’s footsteps and write about all things scifi.

To help you along the way I’ve got some favourites from the episode previously inspired by Debbie which were published in Journal 2:22, some poems from scifiku masters and to end a little bit more Debbie.

One very important thing to tell you before we head over to the poetry… I have an open submission period, deadline 21 December 2024 for Split Sequences. You can write them on your own, or collaborate with your mates, either way, there will be a print and PDF version of Split Peas, the Poetry Pea split sequences journal, out early in 2025. Don’t miss the deadline for submissions!

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A Cuttlefish poetry reading, part two.

This time Patricia at Poetry Pea wanted to pay tribute to Deborah who was such a great friend to Poetry Pea, indeed to haiku worldwide. In this episode you will hear Debbie give a workshop on Scifiku a repeat from an episode in 2022, to inspire you to write for the first submission period of 2025. Finally, you will hear Debbie's last recording for us. She ends it with hope. Do listen all the way to end. God Bless Debbie.

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Cuttlefish poets read to us part 1

Today an anthology of poets who have published with Cuttlefish books, Robin Smith, Julie Bloss Kelsey, Allyson Whipple and Lenard D Moore read to us from their Cuttlefish books. This is only part 1. Do join us again for part 2 next time.

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