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Hello, beautiful readers! Recently, I was invited by Melissa Lemay to be a part of a collaborative poetry project in which five poets each wrote a poem using six random words that Melissa gave us. She then took our five separate poems and meshed them together using the format of a sestina. 

The other poets who volunteered to create a sestina with me were Michele Lee Sefton, Valerie (Murisopsis), Colleen Chesebro, and Heather Carr-Rowe. The random words we were given were pen, plan, dash, likely, boat, and name. One of the words was repeated at the end. Each of us were give the words in a different order, and we didn't see each other's lines before Melissa put them all together. 

Here were the lines I created:

you captured my heart with the stroke of your pen

your attention made me feel more than just a name

my lonely heart took off in a dash

allowing you to romance me on your luxury boat

I was a boost to your ego, most likely

guess that was always the plan

do you remember my name?

Melissa took my lines and combined them with the other poets and created this fabulous sestina! Click HERE to read it! :-)