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Write A Sestina
A highly structured archaic poem with repeating end-words and confuzzlingly puzzlesome rules. The challenge everyone's been waiting for! ... right? ...........Here are the rules on how to write a sestina (too many to copy) from the Academy of American Poets: https://poets.org/glossary/sestina .............For reference (or simply an enjoyable pastime) I recommend reading Rudyard Kipling's "Sestina of the Tramp-Royal" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46775/sestina-of-the-tramp-royal
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Danceinsilence in Poetry & Free Verse

My Feeble Attempt At This Challenge

So Ses Tina

And so the story goes fast

Fast as in the mental creativity

Creativity designed to be unwittingly endless

Endless points, fire, heated degrees

Degrees of intertwining levels, haunting, boastful;

Boastful where the world finds simple attempts

Eventually creating authors.

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Danceinsilence 
As you might be able to tell, I did a little play on the word Sestina for the title @EstherFlowers ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
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Mnezz 
Write on! :-)
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Danceinsilence 
Like I said @EstherFlowers ... my feeble attempt ... I am so out of practice doing these but thank ye for the like and "Tina" thanks ye for the like as well ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
Sestina's are hard @Mnezz but glad ye liked this and thank ye kindly for the L & R ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
@EvelynDawn @VakiabtRaptor47 @Roses311Sublime and @sisyphish ... thank ye all for the likes ... 8=)
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1912writer 
Interesting ... thank you very much for the tag @Danceinsilence!
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Danceinsilence 
Wouldn't be the same @Scratch77 and yeah, Sestina's is work. This is one of those writes I rarely do and thank ye muchly for the L & R ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
... and thank ye for the L & R @1912writer ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
Thank ye ever so much for the like @jasmine_ and ... Welcome to Prose! ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
Thank ye muchly for the like @Laveenya ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
Greatly appreciate the3 L & R @Smruti_Swarupa . ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
Thank ye kindly for the L & R @GLD ... 8=)
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Danceinsilence 
Thank ye so much for the L & R @booklover_2020 ... 8=)
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