Marilyn L. Davis, Editor-in-chief, Two Drops of Ink
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.” ―
Poets – The Apple Writers
For many years now, I’ve suffered from poet envy. I consider them apple writers – so many varieties:
- Ambrosia Apple
- Baldwin
- Braburn
- Cameo
- Captain Palmer
- Courtland
- Cox’s
- Crabapple
- Empire
- Envy Apple
- Fuji Apple
- Gala Apple
- Golden Delicious Apple
- Granny Smith Apple
- Honeycrisp
- Jazz Apple
- Jonathan
- Kiku Apple
- Lord Peckover
- Lucy Glo
- McIntosh Apple
- Northern Spy
- Opal Apple
- Orange Pippin
- Pink Lady Apple
- Pitmason Pine
- Red Delicious Apple
- Red Devil
- Snap Dragon
- Sonya
- Sugar Bee
- Sweetie Apple
Poets can write:
- Acrostic
- Ballad
- Ballad
- Cinquain
- Concrete poetry
- Couplet
- Diamante
- Elegy
- Epic
- Free Verse
- Gnomic verse
- Haiku
- Limerick
- List
- Lyric
- Narrative
- Ode
- Palinode
- Sestina
- Shape
- Sonnet
- Villanelle
The Orange Writers
Non-fiction writers, like myself? Well, we write non-fiction, and we’re orange writers. Before you start lecturing me and telling me that we have categories, too, check out the names:
Even these names are not as exciting as apple and poetry names, thus my reference to oranges – not a lot of variety.
Okay, rant over. This week, we’ll have a new poem every day for our Poetry Break, starting tomorrow.
Stay tuned.
To get you in the mood to read poetry, check out our pages from past Poetry Breaks.
Penned a poem? Then consider submitting it.
