OffBeat (Couplet)

Lost today as to where I am
Poems were and now-- um...damn.

[Tetrameter]

Chunder Monkey (Limerick)

There was a young man who drank drunk
Who made use of spirits to punk
He dizzied his wits
Taking a few hits
To the lavatory he went - dunk!

Journal Break 1

I've been frustrated with writing Sonnets, attempting to perfect the meter, stresses and unstressed syllables, trying to get the damn thing right! Thus far, I've been able to make pentameters properly, but why Sonnets have to be in pentameters, I do not know? I'm just taking notes from Shakespeare's old works and failing miserably, but optimistically learning to improve! I miscounted the amount of Quatrains, so I'm sure someone out there's going to laugh at my mistake because they probably aren't satisfied with themselves and will no doubt make me feel worse to embellish their pride. Bitterness... Next is to try iambs and trochees in the upcoming Sonnet, pray I do this right.

On a lighter note, I love Chokas! Choka is a 5-7 syllable two liner that goes on and on and on forever until a 5-7-7 syllable three liner comes about to end the poem. I love it so because it can tell a story and it doesn't stress too much about mathematical perfection. So simple and wondrous!
Sedokas and Mondos are an intrigue to me though, perhaps I'll attempt in more of those. But if I get tired of any of these meter-syllabic poems, I can always rely on Cinquains for a good Sunday brunch^^

Also, I gotta try Odes sometime! I feel that my story of Black Shade may benefit from it if I learn Odes and perhaps make it into an Epic. Oh an Epic! Wouldn't that be magnificent? I could only imagine, dream of such a creation! I have to do it, I have to! I've been failing in many other writing formats, and I have yet to try poetry. Oh this is going to be great! I want to make this happen, God please let this be destiny! I rue fate as it plays such irony in my life, so let my hands do as they were created to do - to build foundations and progress the life we live in this community we call mankind! Oh let it be, let it be, let it be! [Amen].

Bliss by the left foot (Sonnet...almost)

Oh how notes stream like water upon touch
To gloss over skin and hair and lips and hand
Playing blissfully through the ears of ours
And dance with feathers to fly in heaven's band
Oh music so sweet and savory please
I wish for her and I to soar forth tonight
Through the stars and moon as fire and breathe
Compose sweet symphony to sing our great flight
For love strings destined duets upon His stage
Forgiving kisses to our vice's next page

[Pentameter]
NOTE: Sonnets go by 3 Quatrains and a Couplet...

I see the light, and it burns! (Quatrain)

My eyes sting like an open wound in pure salt
Trembling from light, mortified in the dark
Intaking the luminous penetration
Colors flash me blind, leaving on the mark

[Pentameter]

Awake Again (Couplet)

Bloody hell I'm awake again!
Damn insomnia, much like then.

[Tetrameter]

Poop Handicap (Haiku)

Stomach imploded
Can't release on the toilet
Constipated me

NOTE : Haiku deals with nature.

Dubbed Anime (Waka:Choka)

I am so happy
So happy am I so much

I bow to friendship
Translate me so much badly

My hair flies colorful
Wink big eyes, dribble small lips

Buy show, please collect
Post production, import all
Sell to you. Obey Japan!

NOTE : Choka can continue forever with the 5-7 stanzas,
but the 5-7-7 stanza will end it.

Radio (Waka : Sedoka)

Radio playing
So late yet early; Midnight --
Talk show advising...
Songs I do not know
Songs I do not care to know
With antenna, it goes on.

[Two Katauta's in one stanza = Sedoka]
NOTE: Waka written by one person.

Insomniac Writing? (Waka : Mondo)

Look at my eyes close
Dreary at noon - day and night
Why can't I just go to sleep?
Excited to write
But stupefied so much so
'Cause you have nothing to write.

[Question (Katauta) + Answer (Katauta) = Mondo]

NOTE : Waka written through dialog in reply.

Writing? (Waka : Katauta)

Excited to write
But stupefied so much so
'Cause you have nothing to write

Insomniac (Waka : Katauta)

Look at my eyes close
Dreary at noon - day and night
Why can't I just go to sleep?

Yoko Ono (Senryu)

Yoko Ono was
Weird, too cool, but not, so odd...
She ruined Beatles

NOTE : Senryu deals with humanity.

iPod (Tanka)

iPods play through cords
Notes stream (in) white wire
Select - play - select

So many songs to choose from
I can never have enough
I can never have enough

Chinese poetry according to a Japanese poet?

The Ghost may walk the earth
Restless and wandering without reason
Old men can forget their wits
Until death connects their experience

[http://deoxy.org/koan/88]