Activities I Do Everyday

39. Fourteen Acts I Do Everyday at 8o Years of Age

Get Up, Stand, Move; Plan
Eat breakfast; Think
Talk with my wife; Listen
Read; Reflect
Tend to our garden; Smile

Write, Web Publish, Journal; Analyze
Enjoy Walking; Encourage Others

Do some Yoga or Tai Chi; Study Sages
Do Household Chores; Clear Mind
Eat Lunch and/or Dinner; Gratitude
Clean my Body, Drink Water; Purify
Socialize; Communicate for Peace

Mind My Own Business; Summarize
Sleep; Dream

53. Write Sonnets and Quintains

SM8 Sonnet Model 8

Garofalo Sonnet Form

5 2 5 2 = 14 Lines

Quintain Couplet Quintain Couplet

The Couplets are often connected thematically with each other.

Can be rhymed verse, blank verse, or free verse.

Typographically, mostly Left Justied; but with some variations in identation, spacing, layout.

Makes free use of punctuation.

Some use of hypertext and reference links.

A Google drop-down Translation Menu. Read the webpage in over 50 different languages.

Many of these Sonnets are cellphone readable with ease. However, due to the limitations on the width of the lines on a cellphone screen, these Sonnets can appear to be 28 to 45 lines long. Viewed on a larger desktop screen, the same Sonnet can been seen as just 14 lines. Consequently, this cellphone line length limitation affects the writing style.

Examples in The Gushen Grove Sonnets: #1, # 2, #4, #9.

The Gushen Grove Sonnets. By Mike Garofalo.

Quintains, Pentastich, and Tankas. By Mike Garofalo. Over 750 Quintains.

Tercets, Haiku, Senryu. By Mike Garofalo. Over 1,000 Tercets.

Pulling Onions. By Mike Garofalo. Over 1,000 One-Liners, Quips, Epigrams.

Poetry Research. By Mike Garofalo. Bibliography, Links, Notes, Reviews, Commentary, Research.

Sonnet Poetry Research. By Mike Garofalo. Bibliography, Links, Notes, Reviews, Commentary, Research.

Quintain Poetry Research. By Mike Garofalo. Bibliography, Links, Notes, Reviews, Commentary, Research.