Happy Valentine\u2019s Day! Ever since St. Valentine defied Emperor Claudius II of Rome\u2019s orders by secretly marrying couples, we\u2019ve been celebrating Feb. 14th with hearts, flowers, romance and poetic gestures\u2014including names plucked from a jar.
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\nLet\u2019s carry on the tradition with this week\u2019s prompt. A Tendi is poem made up of four-lines where the first three lines rhyme and the fourth line is a refrain. If you have more than one stanza, the fourth line is repeated each time.<\/p>\n
Since it\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day, try to use a refrain that might be on a Valentine. Something like: Kelly Bennett\u00a0<\/a>and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 1300 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Valen-Tendi! Happy Valentine\u2019s Day! Ever since St. Valentine defied Emperor Claudius II of Rome\u2019s orders by secretly marrying couples, we\u2019ve been celebrating Feb. 14th with hearts, flowers, romance and poetic gestures\u2014including names plucked from a jar. Let\u2019s carry on the tradition with this week\u2019s prompt. A Tendi is poem made up of four-lines where … Continue reading “Poetry Challenge #126”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI love you very much.<\/em>
\nMy heart belongs to you.<\/em>
\nYou are so very sweet.<\/em>
\nOr use a saying from a candy heart:
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\nCan you write a Valentine Tendi with three stanzas? Then, if you dare, send it to your Valentine!<\/p>\nSet your timer for 7 minutes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it!<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Start writing! <\/strong><\/h3>\n