Sestina Poems | Sestina Examples

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A sestina is a highly structured form of poetry consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy (thirty-nine lines), but there is more to a sestina. What is sestina in poetry (complete definition)?

Delusion

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion - Jim Rohn Without meaning, your mind may portray delusion, so some search for answers to end this illusion. Is it that simple to cleanse a life from confusion? When...Read the rest...

Yen for zen

Those practicing Tantra urge us to celebrate, albeit in an aspect of childlike trust and surrender, whilst Buddhists lay emphasis on emptiness, essentially negating play of aversion and desire and as for fundamentalists, lost in the scriptures, lost in labyrinths...Read the rest...

Divine Magnetism

I feel it in the hush of twilight's gentle glow, where spiritual shadows dance in whispers. An intangible force, unseen yet sincere. A magnetism from realms where ego dies. A profound vision influencing my mind. A divine devotion connecting my...Read the rest...

Feeling not thinking

What we affirm now, has been said before but know dear soul, the word is not the thing and so shifting from thinking to feeling, being a melding of head with the heart, in staid silence, negating all knowing, ego...Read the rest...

That Was Then, This is Now

Your paradigm's a relic, a plea from data's cemetery, While I sculpt luminaries on screens, a sable sea. "Company loyalty," a myth, spun in your reverie, But AI forges kingdoms, in ephemeral memory. Survival's a mosaic, the gig life...Read the rest...

The Diversity Of Dialect

Anything of substance now silent, no nuance in bony dialect; Floundering in a devoid ocean we are starving for fluid language; Razor thin cuts painful and shallow banal waters lack diversity; Uninspired without diversity collaboration’s fallen silent; Sand bar bellows...Read the rest...

Bliss in permanence

In joy we jive, since we’re alive but happiness soon yields to pain, so we cling to concepts of God, that our heart may receive solace but where lies bliss in permanence, entwined with light of Self within? We begin going...Read the rest...

Release

Ripples intrude in silence without cause, strange since serpentine desire spirals rest, so in witness mode, from our heart abode, awareness self-aware, just looking on, flows in and out of these dream forms with ease, relinquishing thought that’s ego begot. Attached...Read the rest...

Idle musings

We feel within, magnetic heat, gripping us in meditation and as rapture within us grows, false identity falls away, whence we reclaim our inner light, here and now, in the waking state. No doubt at first, fear forms yet bait but with...Read the rest...

There is no one here

The seeker who seeks does not exist but to begin with, this truth is not known, so being accustomed to needless striving, the earth entity begins its God search quest, searching high and low, yet negating the light that lies...Read the rest...

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Definition | What is Sestina in Poetry?

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