Wise Poets of the Present

The Hebrew scriptures teach that there is a season for everything and a new season is dawning in my life, retirement. I have a milestone birthday coming up and I simply want to spend more time with my husband, my local friends and to write poetry for my local newspaper, the Gazette Virginian. However, I … Read more

How Wise Reader’s Interpret Poetry We are moving a bit from the biographies of great poets and authors to the interpretation of their works, although the stories of today’s great authors have yet to be fully written and yet to come. Today we are going to look at the basics of the interpretation of poetry … Read more

There are two main factors in the making of a good book; plot (which has already been dealt with in this column) and characterization. Characterization can be defined as the development of a character’s personality traits, their motives, their thoughts, and how he or she interacts with others in the story. A character can be … Read more

We all love our stories; don’t we? But each story, whether it be in a novel, an epic poem, a play or a film, has one thing in common and that is a plot. Webster defines a plot in two ways, first definition is that it plan made in secret by one or more persons … Read more

Bulgaria’s Alexandar Tomov Jr.: He Writes About All Things Absurd Alexandar Tomov Jr. was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on June 3. 1982 in the shadow of the Soviet Empire. And, as Bulgaria was embarking on its own experiment in democracy when the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Tomov Jr, was finding his own literary voice … Read more

Poetic Imagery: Little Snapshots in the Mind As we have seen before in modern and post-modern poetry, the sky’s the limit when it comes to the style of poetry you choose to write, You can write anything from the highly regimented Shakespearean sonnet with it’s hard and set rules of meter and rhyme to Whitman’s … Read more

Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman: From Watts to Front and Center Amanda is a young poet who was first to do a lot of things. Born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in the neighborhood of Watts by a single, English teacher Mom named Joan Wicks, she became the first person to be named Youth Poet … Read more

Neil David Chan: Canada’s Own Post-Modern Metaphysical Philosopher In this article author, poet and philosopher Neil David Chan answers three important interview questions to define his beliefs concerning hid doctrine of metaphysical philosophy, His book “A Higher Conversation: Another Way to be Human” is published by Austin Macauley Publishers with offices in London, Cambridge, New … Read more

We Got Rhythm: The Beat of the Bard Good poetry being a close kin to music not only depends on the sounds of words to make it musical, but it also needs to have a certain meter and rhythm to make it akin to a song. And what we have here are the patterns and … Read more

The English language lends itself so well to rhyme that rhyme is common in English poetry, except for blank verse which has meter and no rhyme and free verse poetry. But even free verse poets can make use of internal rhyme in which two words within a line rhyme, use approximate rhyme, or the poet … Read more

Poet Laureate Georgette LeBlanc: Canada’s Choice Bard The honor of being named Poet Laureate of Canada is a fairly new post created by the Canadian Parliament. It was created in 2001 and thus far there have been eight poets named to this post by the Speaker of the House of Parliament and the Speaker of … Read more

A Now Poetic Voice of the Covid 19 Age They say history repeats itself, and in 1918, we had a worldwide flu epidemic like the world had never seen before. In that day the virus was spread by the movement of armies during the First World War while today’s pandemic bug is being spread by … Read more

Cathy Mellen Our Fall 2020 Contest Winner I am very pleased to announce that our dailywisdomwords.com Fall poetry contest winner is poet and blogger Cathy Mellen. Congrats Cathy! 1. Where are you from, and please tell us about your life and your home? ️ I am from Lowell, Massachusetts.  Home to Ed McMahon, Bette Davis … Read more

While not all great poets don’t chose big education as their chosen path to success, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown chose that challenging path for himself. Writer Malcolm Gladwell, the author of “Outliers: The Story of success”. asserts that great success comes only by three major things; talent, preparation and practice. And Brown sure … Read more

Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV Now, you know you’ve got problems when a hostile ghost uses the family TV as a medium to communicate with your youngest daughter. And then with the earth shaking declaration by the child that “They are here,” your perceptions of life are … Read more

J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II Her marriage was over. She was jobless; on welfare. And she was so broke that she had to type 12 copies of her first book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” on a manual typewriter to send to each publisher because she could not … Read more

Stephen Edwin King is the wildly popular horror fiction writer that started life working a regular jobs like the average American working stiff. But he has a twisted imagination and a penchant for writing dark suspenseful fiction that has set him apart. Born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, to a working class family, … Read more

Anthony Kellman: A Wise Poet with a Caribbean Beat No lengthy discussion of poetry in the English speaking world would be complete without recognizing a great poet of present day Barbados, Anthony Kellman. Kellman is a poet and singer/songwriter who was born on the island of Barbados on April 24, 1955. He is an innovative … Read more

Writers are sometimes temperamental creatures, as artists go, and I was sometimes temperamental and a little over confident in my skills, since it takes a fairly strong ego to think that that you can write something that someone else is going to want to read what you have written. It takes a lot of nerve … Read more