Walk with Me

My Poetry Collection on Medium

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3 min readMay 8, 2017

Photo by Christie Stalcup. Used with permission.

Welcome to my collection of poetry on (and off) Medium, organized by poetic form. You can use the table of contents to jump to a specific form, or scroll down to browse the forms in reverse alphabetical order. To keep up with my most recent work, check out my website:

Michael Stalcup

Michael Stalcup is a Thai-American poet living in Bangkok, Thailand.

www.michaelstalcup.com

Thank you to all of you who have taken the time to walk with me — reading my words, welcoming me as a poet and friend, and writing back. ~Michael

All Poems By Poetic Form:

Villanelle

Portland, 2017

Villanelle after Rachel B. Baxter

Chalkboard (July 2017)

Sonnet

When Ancient Time Shuts Tight Its Rusted Doors

Shakespearean Sonnet

Inheritance Magazine (Issue 61: Searching for Hope)

I See You Like I’m Standing on the Moon

Petrarchan Sonnet

Poetry in Form (September 2017)

Permanent Separations

A Sonnet

Lit Up (originally published in Faithfully Magazine)

The Rule

An American Sonnet

Resistance Poetry (originally published in Reclaim Magazine)

Sestina Stanzas

my single-stanza contributions to collaborative sestinas

You Still Are

My first contribution: the fifth stanza of the sestina “Heart Strings”

Literally Literary (April 2017)

Lost at Sea

My second contribution: the second stanza of the sestina “Reflections of the Sea”

Poets Unlimited (April 2017)

In Full Bloom

My third contribution: the envoi of the sestina “Imagine”

Poets Unlimited (May 2017)

Septets

You’re Beautiful

A Love Song

The Coffeelicious (June 2017)

Senryu

crimethink

senryu in newspeak

Poets Unlimited (February 2017)

Would You Rather…?

Senryu (and one-line poetry prompt)

Chalkboard (September 2017)

Like Soap Does

Senryu (and one-line poetry prompt)

Chalkboard (December 2018)

Quatrain

The Train

Quatrains

Poets Reading the News (October 2018)

Pearls

Quatrain for the Imaga Imaginings project

Chalkboard (June 2017)

Flatland

Quatrain

Poets Unlimited (July 2017)

He Never Sees

A Lament

Intimately Intricate (January 2018)

Trees

On one forbidden tree, Inside a garden of eternity, Hung seeds of death deliciously Enticing us to eat;

Lit Up (February 2018)

Pantoum

Pantoumburger

A Recipe

Poetry in Form (June 2017)

Passing Pantoums

A Pantoum Sandwich (as part of a collaborative poetry project)

Chalkboard (August 2017)

Beautiful Cacophony

Pantoum after Rachel B. Baxter

Chalkboard (August 2017)

Free Verse & Other

Breathe

Free Verse

Fathom Mag (Issue #32: Warmth)

The Wound

Free Verse

What Rough Beast (October 2018)

A Pine Needle

Free Verse

Poets Unlimited (February 2017)

Two Countries From Afar

I read the news these days and see… I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God….

This Glorious Mess (July 2017)

Perspective

Free verse (and one-line poetry prompt)

Chalkboard (January 2018)

Couplets

Can I?

Couplets

Faithfully Magazine

Cleave

April Showers

A cleave with Dewi and Tamyka Bell — with a link to my standalone poem, “May Flowers”

Chalkboard (April 2017)

Fool’s Game

Quadruple cleave with Tamyka Bell, Zev., and C. Duhnne — with links to my standalone poems, “Feast or Famine?” and “Babel”

Chalkboard (May 2017)

Cinquain

Grandma

Cinquain

Poetry in Form (April 2017)

The Nine Months’ War

Cinquain

Poetry in Form (July 2017)

Acrostic Golden Shovel

This Type of Perfect

An acrostic golden shovel after Propaganda (with audio)

The Coffeelicious (July 2017)

Abhanga

Morning Song

An Awakening Abhanga

Poetry in Form (April 2017)

Regrets

an abhanga

Chalkboard (June 2017)

Other Stuff

Last Week, This Morning

Guest Posts highlighting some of my favorite poems on Medium

The Past Six Months, This Morning

A Medium Poetry Newbie’s Favorite Finds

Last Week, This Morning (July 2017)

The Past Six Weeks, This Morning

And a picture of my daughters and me poking a jellyfish

Last Week, This Morning (September 2017)

Poetry Prompt Collections

Collections of poems in response to poetry prompts I have hosted

“Would You Rather…?” Wrap Up

A Collection of One Line Poems

Chalkboard (September 2017)

Over the Horizon

A look back at the Passing Pantoums project

Chalkboard (September 2017)

Responses to the “Seeing Sonnet” Prompt

A Poetry in Form prompt

Poetry in Form (September 2017)

Poems of Perspective

A Collection of One Line Poems

Chalkboard (February 2018)

That’s the end of the road! For further reading (and listening), you can find me in prose on my blog, Surrender the City, and in music on Bandcamp.

Soli Deo Gloria.