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I am English and began writing poetry at the turn of this century.My early interest was in short forms,.I created and promoted quite a few here on PS (perhaps my best known is the Footle).With encouragement from a member here I moved onto to longer forms,publishing my poetry in print,blog ,twitter and kindle ebook form.I came to conclude that all poetry is structured prose and remains a work in progress until recited aloud, (the apex of our art form) when a unique experience 'an as is moment' occurs between voice and ear, much the same as the experience that happens when viewing a work of art

Check out my short forms @strandpoet on twitter and my kindle poetry guides on amazon and some of my artwork to accompany my youtube clips of my poetry recited aloud

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AN UPDATE FROM BRIAN

Blog Posted:10/23/2012 2:57:00 AM

Hi folks I have not 'left' PS although I am not renewing my PM when it expires this week ,as I feel after running 200 contests and posting 800 blogs over 5 years or so, that it is probably enough for anyone, both to read and to write.I will be posting my poetry (when I start to write creatively again) and commenting on blogs here but for the foreseeable few weeks upto Christmas I anticipate being occupied domestically with caring for my wife who is scheduled for major surgery this weekend.PS is an excellent poetry site (which is why I have tried,as best I can) since 2007 ,to contribute to and encourage its development as the leading''net' poetry site and it remains the reason I continue store all my poetic library here.Best wishes to all my many poetic peers here on PS with your creative poetic endeavours.Rgds Brian

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Gwendolen
Song

Date: 10/27/2012 10:49:00 PM

Brian...wow! It seems many are getting hit with personal struggles right now...U and your wife are on my prayer list too...your poetry contributions are too numerous to count...you are appreciated immensely, poet! All my best to u and your family. gwendolen

Richard
Lamoureux

Date: 10/27/2012 8:56:00 AM

I am new here but I will add my voice to praying for you and your wife.

john
freeman

Date: 10/24/2012 5:39:00 PM

My prayers are for your wife as she faces surgery, I'm so sorry that she has to go through anything of this kind, but she is quite fortunate that she has you to give her the support and care she will need. Best of wishes Brian, Agape, Moses

nette
onclaud

Date: 10/24/2012 12:07:00 PM

do visit every now and then, brian... you are missed.. i send you life's many graces!..;) huggs

Tim
Ryerson

Date: 10/23/2012 7:11:00 PM

My prayers go out to you and your dear wife, Brain...I will miss your blogs and your contests...Tim

Debbie
Guzzi

Date: 10/23/2012 6:32:00 PM

Sending healing prayers your way, you take care of you, please..Light & Love

Tanya
Harrington

Date: 10/23/2012 12:47:00 PM

Prayers for you and your wife. Thank you for the contests and for letting us know you are ok. Best wishes for you and yours!

Poet Destroyer
A

Date: 10/23/2012 10:57:00 AM

Brian, you are secretly missed by many of us here on the soup. Thank you for thinking of us and sharing what you are going through. I will keep your wife and your return in my thoughts... God Bless you...LINDA

Joann
Grisetti

Date: 10/23/2012 10:18:00 AM

Hugs and prayers for you and your wife in this time of special need. I am so glad you took the time to update us, we do miss you.

Francine
Roberts

Date: 10/23/2012 9:29:00 AM

Your wife is in my prayers for a successful surgery and speedy recovery and I am so glad you posted this blog to keep us up to date, looking forward to your poetic return when you are ready

Brian
Strand

Date: 10/23/2012 8:58:00 AM

Thank you Guys for your kind words,thoughts and prayers etc.at this stress filled time.Your friendship now and over the years is appreciated.PS has its 'ups and downs' because words 'written' appear colder than those 'said' but our passion for poetry is what binds us together and PS still remains one of the best places on the net to share our artistic temperaments.rgds Brian

Carrie
Richards

Date: 10/23/2012 8:53:00 AM

Brian, you have always been a fine example of knowledge, talent and kindness, and it has been my pleasure to learn from you. My prayers for your wife as she faces surgery, I'm so sorry that she has to go through anything of that kind, but how fortunate that she has you to lend her the support and care she will need. I hope you will keep us updated on her recovery. Thank you for always being the one blog I could count on....never an unkind word, never a inuendo or caustic remark... just a wealth of knowledge and dignity and good manners. You have been a good example of what some of us came to Poetry Soup to find. Thank you, and God Bless......Wishing your wife a full recovery.

Brian Strand
Date: 10/23/2012 9:04:00 AM

Thank you Carrie .As these blogs are 'on the world-wide web' accessible to all ,not just we 'soupers' ! Those interested in updates are most welcome to soupmail me over the coming days.rgds Brian

Carol
Eastman

Date: 10/23/2012 8:26:00 AM

Our prayers are with you on your wife's speedy recovery... Glad to see your not gone... yours truly.

Barbara
Gorelick

Date: 10/23/2012 7:20:00 AM

So glad to hear from you..My best wishes to your wife and to you. will keep good thoughts for you bnoth. BG

Sara
Kendrick

Date: 10/23/2012 7:00:00 AM

Brian, I am still remembering you and your wife and family in those prayers..I purchased the book that you mentioned..I have only read bits and pieces of it but it is very interesting..I hope that your wife will soon be back to full strength and looking after home and family..Sara

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 10/23/2012 6:35:00 AM

and waiting for your burst of creativity with new poems as well.

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 10/23/2012 6:34:00 AM

What a wonderful blog, Brian. Just the other day a soup member mentioned you and missing you. Very nice words about PS and I want to thank you for the many contests you have sponsored. it would sure be great to see you commenting on blogs in the future! My best to your wife on her upcoming surgery!

Mandy
Tams The Golden Girl

Date: 10/23/2012 6:21:00 AM

All the best to you both Brian xx

James Marshall
Goff

Date: 10/23/2012 5:25:00 AM

thoughts are with you, buddy....jimbo...oh....I proudly admire my framed winning certificate from a contest couple yrs. ago of yours that kindled my spirit....thanks, Brian...

Brian Strand
Date: 10/23/2012 9:07:00 AM

Those were the days Jim! Hopefully we all can keep the 'workshop' atmosphere of mutual encouragement to our poetic development.Best wishes with your writing.rgds Brian

Cyndi
MacMillan

Date: 10/23/2012 5:10:00 AM

BRIAN! Thank you for letting us know how you are and I will pray for your wife and her surgery... there are so many here who are going through trials right now... surgery is at the top of the list. I'm so sorry that health concerns have touched your family. You are missed, not just your contests, but you, your art, you wise guidance at times it was needed. But you are where you should be, with your loved one....glad you won't completely disappear. PLEASE if you have a close friend here at soup or if/when you have time, please just even one line to say how your wife fared in her surgery? Thank you for all you brought soup. Your poetry artful, blogs thoughtful, your illustrations delightful.

harry
horsman

Date: 10/23/2012 4:42:00 AM

thank you Brian, i do enjoy your poetry and read your blogs with interest.. a prayer for your wife also...

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Date Posted	PoemTitle	Form	Categories
6/22/2017	SILENT SOLILIQY	Elegaic Lyric	death,funeral,sorrow,
6/20/2017	ANOTHER ETHEREAL MONOSTICH	Monoku	day,dream,
6/18/2017	SIGN OF THE TIMES a monstich	Monoku	humor,humorous,social,
6/18/2017	ANOTHER ethereal monostich	Monoku	food,humor,
6/18/2017	A COFFEE monostich	Monoku	drink,food,humor,humorous
6/17/2017	TORMENTED and TORTURED	Quatrain	art,people,
6/16/2017	MY TITLES ONCE AGAIN	Verse	lost love,love hurts,
6/16/2017	MY TITLES AGAIN	Verse	aubade,fantasy,
6/14/2017	MY TITLES in phrasis form	Verse	fantasy,imagery,
6/13/2017	LEONARDO'S LISA	Clerihew	art,
6/10/2017	KALEIDOSCOPE	Quatrain	imagery,
6/7/2017	ANOTHER POSTIVE MONOKU	Monoku	hope,
6/7/2017	A POSTIVE MONOKU	Monoku	age,
6/6/2017	D DAY REMEBERED a repost	Ballad	eulogy,freedom,
6/5/2017	AMERGIN a kyrielle form	Kyrielle	christian,
6/3/2017	RYTHMIC UNITS you see	Monoku	poetry,
6/2/2017	QUINTILE the form	Cinquain	love,poetry,
6/2/2017	ANOTHER SENRYU	Senryu	self,
6/2/2017	YET ANOTHER ONE WORD HAIKU	Haiku	weather,
6/2/2017	ANOTHER ONE WORD HAIKU	Haiku	poetry,
6/2/2017	ONE WORD SENRYU an example	Senryu	poetry,
6/2/2017	ONE WORD HAIKU the form	Haiku	weather,winter,
5/29/2017	A light to the world	Ekphrasis	art,christian,
5/29/2017	A SEQUENCED EKPHRASIS lanterne	Lanterne	art,
5/26/2017	a CONTEMPORARY conclusion	Kyrielle	social,society,
5/25/2017	A CINQUAIN cinqku	Cinqku	animal,work,
5/25/2017	A CINQKU cinquain	Cinqku	seasons,summer,
5/24/2017	AMERICAN CINQUAIN in sequence	Cinquain	nature,poetry,
5/21/2017	PASTORAL harmony	Pastoral	nature,
5/21/2017	PASTORAL perfumes	Pastoral	flower,
5/21/2017	PERSONIFICATION portrayed	Personification	imagination,
5/21/2017	PAINTINGS personified	Personification	art,
5/20/2017	A TEXT POEM	Verse	poetry,
5/20/2017	ONCE EMERGED FROM THE GREY OF NIGHT	Ekphrasis	art,poetry,
5/16/2017	NOISES OFF an abstract of sounds	Verse	song,sound,
5/16/2017	A LIFE AFLOAT	Narrative	family,history,
5/16/2017	WHEN THE LARK DEPARTS	Narrative	family,
5/16/2017	THE LACE MAKERS	Narrative	family,
5/12/2017	OPEN POETRY after Marianne Moore	Free verse	poetry,
5/12/2017	TETRACTYS the form	Tetractys	poetry,
5/10/2017	A BLANK VERSE from my maturity	Blank verse	life,poetry,
5/10/2017	A BLANK VERSE poem	Blank verse	life,poetry,
5/10/2017	AN ODE TO LOST LOVE	Ode	lost love,
5/9/2017	A TALE OF ANNOYANCE beware	Verse	philosophy,
5/9/2017	WALLPAPER MUSIC	Cinqku	music,
5/8/2017	A CHILDHOOD FOOTBALL GAME	Verse	soccer,sports,
5/8/2017	WINTER SPORTS a spaces form	Verse	sports,
5/8/2017	20 20 the game	Verse	sports,
5/8/2017	GOLF defined	Cinquain	golf,sports,
5/6/2017	A BUTTERFLY AS A POEM	Verse	animal,
5/5/2017	AN ENGLISH ODE	Ode	history,
5/5/2017	BELOW THE GLASS CEILING an ode	Ode	family,history,
5/5/2017	A 'FIFTIES ODE	Ode	bio,history,memory,
5/3/2017	A WALL of BRICK an emblem poem	Verse	christian,poetry,
5/3/2017	Home a familiar place	List	bio,home,
5/3/2017	A Footle I've only just begun	Footle	humorous,poetry,
5/3/2017	FOOTLE HYBRID I 've only just begun	Footle	humorous,poetry,
5/3/2017	FOOTLE HYBRID I did it my way	Footle	humorous,poetry,
5/1/2017	LIMERICK FORM an example	Limerick	poetry,
5/1/2017	THE LIMERICK its origin and history	Limerick	history,people,poetry,
5/1/2017	A MAY DAY FIELD OF OLD	Crystalline	flower,life,
5/1/2017	A MAY DAY REFLECTION	Cinquain	flower,life,
5/1/2017	MAY FLOWERS	Cinquain	flower,life,
4/30/2017	MY POETIC AMBITION in sonnet form	Sonnet	bio,poetry,
4/30/2017	DEMI-SONNET the free form	Sonnet	bio,poetry,
4/28/2017	IN MEMORIUM	Verse	death,family,war,
4/28/2017	FANCY FREE a fifties remenisence	Quatrain	death,
4/28/2017	IN THE MIDST OF DEATH ---- life	Monoku	death,life,nature,
4/25/2017	A POEM sans punctuation marks	Free verse	poetry,
4/24/2017	JOHANNES VERMEER a trio of his girls	Ekphrasis	art,girl,
4/24/2017	JOHANNES VERMEER more of his girls	Ekphrasis	art,girl,
4/24/2017	JOHANNES VERMEER and his girls	Ekphrasis	art,girl,
4/23/2017	WISTERFULLY YOURS	Verse	lost love,memory,
4/22/2017	OLD AGE a perspective	Bio	age,
4/21/2017	BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING a quatrain	Didactic	christian,spiritual,teach
4/21/2017	CONTRAST a tanka phrasis	Tanka	inspiration,poetry,
4/21/2017	MOOD SWINGS	Cinquain	emotions,inspiration,intr
4/20/2017	IMAGISM the form	Imagism	image,imagery,poetry,
4/16/2017	A BLANK VERSE RHYME	Blank verse	poetry,
4/15/2017	AN EASTER PRIMER	Didactic	christian,truth,
4/15/2017	FRIDAY to SUNDAY a crystalline	Crystalline	christian,day,
4/13/2017	MARY'S GOOD FRIDAY	Ballade	christian,death,
4/13/2017	COLLECTIONS in verse	List	animal,bird,fish,insect,
4/13/2017	MORNING STAR my guide to life	Bio	bio,christian,star,
4/13/2017	ANOTHER CHILDHOOD HERO	Verse	childhood,hero,
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4/12/2017	and then	Dramatic monologue	family,
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4/8/2017	CINQUAIN a didatic	Didactic	poetry,teacher,
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4/8/2017	A SYLLABIC FREE VERSE	Didactic	beauty,
4/7/2017	NAGA-UTA the lyric form	Lyric	childhood,dream,lyric,
4/7/2017	LIST the form	List	sound,
4/7/2017	LANTERNE as a quaternion	Lanterne	seasons,
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PoemTitle	Form	Categories
The Nose	Concrete	art,life,on writing and w
Sailing Leaf	Haiku	nature
The Rain	Haiku	nature
Reflections	Free verse	on writing and wordswords
Hippocratic Oath	Rhyme	lost love,son,sympathywor
Ever After	Cinquain	love
Mortal Season	Free verse	sea,seasonssummer,day,sum
A Whisper on the Wind	Personification	nature,
There Will Be Mountains	Couplet	faith,lifemountains,
Tender Moments	Quatrain	lovesweet,sweet,
Blush of the Roses	Couplet	hope,nature
Haiku/Limerick number twenty	Haiku	nature
Time Machine	Couplet	nostalgiamom,me,night,can
I AM THE ONE	Free verse	inspirationalme,
Finally	Quatrain	love,passion
The Gift	Couplet	introspection,nature
footle .. Footle !!	Light Poetry	funny
Believe!	Couplet	devotion,faith,inspiratio
Lavender Soap	Narrative	family,happinesseaster,
The Love Letter	Quatrain	lovelove,passion,
cream seeps from the sun	Haiku	seasons
Yesterday's Rain~	Couplet	forgiveness,hope,inspirat
Winter Pond	Free verse	natureautumn,
Restoration	Free verse	natureme,me,
requiem to my hero	Elegy	loss
Bed of Roses	Rictameter	love
Spring Tango	Haiku	nature,seasons
Farewell, alas	Free verse	death,i love you,
An Idyll of the Past	Verse	historyme,child,me,
Unconditioonal Love - the short version	Rhyme	loveme,me,
The Old Homestead	Lyric	family,history,introspect
The Red Rabbit	I do not know?	life,
Perspective	Couplet	introspection,natureheart
God's Orchard	Senryu	imagination
Ode to a rose on a sunset	Quatrain	caregiving,dedication,dev
The Beauty of Peace	Choka	nature,seablue,
When Violins Weep	Verse	lost love,love
Where are you so soon, my love	Quatrain	love,i love you,
Basho	Senryu	dedication
Maxine	Free verse	love
Weather Observations	Free verse	nature
Lovers Utopia	Quatrain	fantasy,happiness,imagina
Melancholy Mists	Free verse	philosophy,sad
Nightfall	Free verse	imagination,naturebird,bi
Cricket	Free verse	politicalred,
The Reader	Free verse	love,on writing and words
The Conciliator's Cry	Free verse	caregiving,devotion,inspi
My heart	Quatrain	friendship,hope,loveheart
Haste!	Personification	allegory,confusion,life,l
Whispers	Free verse	introspection,life,passio
Masterpiece	Senryu	peace
The Ambiance	Free verse	education,happiness,passi
Movements of Beginnings	Free verse	history,philosophy,politi
Poetic Waters	Haiku	nature,sea
A Bit of Joy	Senryu	happiness,life,nature
Before & After the Lull	Verse	seasea,sea,
Diamond in the Bud	Lanterne	nature
NIGHT IS NOT LIKE DAY	Terza Rima	music,mystery,nature,sea,
Ghetto Summer (redo)	Fibonacci	places
Night's sentry	Free verse	caregiving,imagination,my
Rain	Free verse	introspection,peopleday,d
Dreamtime: flowers never bloom	Quintain (Sicilian)	imagination
Grandfather's Arbour (revised)	Sonnet
Awaiting Dawn	Choka	naturenight,night,
Cubic Romance	Senryu	art,imagination,love
Symbiosis	Rhyme	adventure,nature,peace
Falling in Love	Haiku	love,nature
Autumn's Breeze	Couplet	nature,peace,sea,seasons,
Destination	Tetractys	life
The Power	Tail-rhyme	allegory,love
The Walk We Take	Crystalline	happiness,hope,inspiratio
Winters buds	Free verse	passion
Solace of Nature	Haiku	nature,peace
The Old Painter	Couplet	time,
A Change of Season - A Haiku	Haiku	nature
Morning Baptism	Haiku	nature
Reflection	Monoku	introspection,naturemay,
Evening Grace	Free verse	peaceme,
Haiku - Mirror Reflection	Haiku	nature
Quiet Comfort Parts 1, 2 and 3	Crystalline	introspection,life
Flying My Kite of Prose	Free verse	on writing and words
Winter Footprints	Quatrain	seasons
Sienna Eyes	Narrative	animals
Eye of the storm	Free verse	faith
Uncaring Wind	Free verse	nature
Brighter	Senryu	faith,inspirational
Causalities of War	Elegy	death,war,
Snails Pace	Shape	life,nature
Sweetly Fragrant	Sonnet	devotion,faith,father,ins
It is Written in a Star	Concrete	history,love,peace
To VC	Free verse	hope,love,mysteryheart,he
Transition	Kimo	nature
Christmas Eve of Old	Couplet	happiness,holidaymusic,mu
Baby Girl (For Asante Indira)	Free verse	daughter,education,intros
Ode to Winter	Ode	faith,happiness,hope,natu
Wisdom (An Emily dedicated to Brian Strand)	Epigram	dedicationmay,
Buried	Rhyme	angst,death,imagination
Glare Ice	Haiku	nature
The Sun Rises--The Moon Sets	Acrostic	life,naturemoon,
She Danced	Quatrain	imagination,inspirational

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