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The Harvest is book two of the duology that started with "The Sword and Sickle" and now "The Harvest," the final book in the series. This book is written and published to Wattpad as creative writing process, so it will have typos and other errors so fell free to point them out using inline comments. Olan uses each Wattpad part as a virtual page of between 500 to 1,000 words, this book is rated mature. This is a work of fiction and any correlation with anyone, living or dead is unintentional on the author's part; all rights are reserved and this eBook is copyrighted by the author. Cover art by, Olan L. Smith.…

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Annabel started out as a comment on another poet's work, and that poet suggest I post it; I did. Now, it has taken many forms and I thought it best to keep track of this evolution of a poem in one collection, I hope you enjoy it.…

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This is the collection of my lipogram constraint poems, perhaps one of the hardest constraints to write using the English language. In a lipogram you omit at least one letter of the alphabet in your work, novels have been written with this constraint (See Ernest Vincent Wright's book "Gadsby"). I like to omit the e as it seems to be the most difficult letter to write a poem or story without.…

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The following articles are essays on how to write poetry, by Olan L. Smith, aka Cotton Jones. I was asked to write these article for Wattpad's Poets Pub's Handbook for Poets, 2017. I am collecting them here for my site so they may be easy to find. Love, peace, freedom (Lpf), Olan…

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31creepywords challege for Halloween, 2018.…

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This three quatrain poem uses alliteration, assonance, consonance, and cadence to convey its message. I hope you enjoy it.…

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This is a pensive, reflective rondeau style poem consisting of 15 lines consisting of three stanzas; 5, 4, and 6 lines per stanza. The poem is straight forward and deals with my emotions, as two of my close male cousins ashes are to be returned to the earth.…

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This is fantasy horror story, an excerpt from a manuscript I start a number of years tentatively tiled, "The Sword and the Sickle .…

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The metamorphosis, or changeling poem was created by me, a couple of years ago. It consists of six lines with six words in each line using three couplets. The last word in the first line of each of the three couplets must be a changeling word meaning it can become a new word when the first letter is removed. For example; tread becomes read.…

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Word to Rhyme is a couplet poem about change, and aging. I hope you enjoy it. Love, peace, and freedom, Olan.…

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Free verse poetry.…

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This collection of my poems, consists of Rondeaux that I have written over the years. This form is difficult, and you will see how I mature in writing the the Rondeaux as the years pass. Love, peace, and freedom, Olan…

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Venture Forth is a poem consisting of five tercet stanzas, and is a poem about becoming.…

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A free verse poem written in the prophet voice of end times.…

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Night Shadow is a double-nonet poem consisting of two nine line halves (the bottom mirrors the shape of the top). A single nonet poem has nine lines with nine syllables in line one and then each line has one syllable less until line nine has only one syllable.  In this double-nonet poem the bottom half mirrors the top half and starts with one syllable ascending in the number of syllables each line has until the last line has nine, totaling eighteen lines.…

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Bluebeard's Ghost is a 15 line rondeau, enjoy.…

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A four tercet poem.…

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I was asked by a friend to write a poem celebrating the 80th birthday of Kenneth Wooden. Mr. Wooden is a renowned author and child safety advocate championing a child's human rights worldwide, and I dedicate this poem to him and his efforts to make the world a better place. Lpf, Olan…

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These is a collection of rondeau style poem that I have written. (Credit for cover, Olan L. Smith)…

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This is a three quatrain poem with a rhyme scheme ofa,b,a,bc,d,c,de,f,e,f…