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Encomium  , an ode, a poem of praise for a specific man or a woman, not a god. I guess I have already written 2 Encomiums this week and entered

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Just a Man  (E) In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. #2146098 by Tinker

in the Oriental contest using the target form Mathnawi and I wrote

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A Son of Thunder  (E) Short poem contest entry on character in the bible. #2146194 by Tinker

, an octastich with rhyme xaxaxaxa x being unrhymed for the Lighthouse short poem, character from scripture contest.

A while back I wrote a blank verse poem honoring Robert Frost. All 3 poems could fall under the genre, Encomium. All 3 written in different verse forms.

Robert Frost, Sower

Some forty years ago, I saw him stand
up next to J.F.K. and heard them call
him Poet Laureate. He read aloud
from shaking paper held in wrinkled hands.
I don't remember any words he spoke,
it was his gravel voice that stayed with me.
I had an inkling then I witnessed steel
and still I hear him now, the harness bells
and swinging birches, sounds connecting voice
and pen. He planted a seed in me that day,
a need to share this vibrant world in verse.
                              --- Judi Van Gorder

~~Tink