Can My Poetry Get Any Worse?: 21 December 2008

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Six String Samurai (Waka:Choka)

Take five little man
This ain't no place fo' a kid

Steel swings red out here
So ev'rybody turns cold

Don't cross past the line
Or the spinach monster'll come

Foot steps steer behind
Unless you want to die too?

You yell and follow
And I can't argue, you're too young

I'll drop you somewhere
Right before you slow me down

They're strange around here
Nothing I can't handle though

With strings that burn blood
Deep as the horizon 'far

They all want a piece
Even death can play a tune

There in Vegas kid
(Is) where I'm gonna have my gig

The King needs an heir
And that throne is mine alone

But it ain't easy
No body plays nice here at

We walk: feet or wheels
And I hear you say squat for days

Cannibals and guns
Protestin' my Rock 'n' Roll

As this katana
Tastes alternative genre

Piling arguments
When treatments bleed red per song

The Russians'll stop me
But you'll keep me alive 'til

I snap my fingers
Hittin' the yellow brick road

Kickin' and slashin'
Soon before the day I die

They call me Buddy
Holly to your legacy
Since 1957

Friday, December 26, 2008

Theatre (Cinquain)

Theatre
Staged Life
It complicates everything
But conjures one's wit
Farce

Sleepy (Cinquain)

Sleepy
Less awake
Snoring while conscious
Uncomfortable with the stance
Tired

Writer Insomniac (Epigram)

Tough time keeping my eyes open
Tonight I try writing again!

Secretary (Vers Libre)

Write down my thoughts
For tomorrow
They may not come
But keep note
In case they do

Business (Senryu)

Business is business
We can win and we can lose
No one is happy

That Glimpse of You (Quatrains)

Oh Spanish eyes how I would love to meet
Upon a moment between steps tonight
In silence from those thin sweet lips you touched
Breathing within the minute we match sight

Hoping do I wish while present for you
Catching that blur cascading luminous
Around yourself, like halos before saints
Something divine, something like you, and thus

I fall short from you as you are to me
Though you may not know yet, as we have yet
To be... Your admirer am I today
As fate had me find you just to forget

I would demand another chance for us
But you passed right through me without a hint
Cursing me with this whif of bliss forgone
And you with your day, without a hint

Did you see me at all or did you try--
To forget me too?

igottalearnmesome

What if you could enter a spoken word session using actual traditional poetry form?

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Ode:
A poem able to be sung. A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure. Typically with an odd meter to it's structure.

~KEATES ODE FORMAT~
1_split couplet.
*_one line that rhymes with the third line of the following quatrain.
1_quatrain that has the second line rhyme with the last line after
*_like a sonnet, it is a pentameter

~KIPLING ODE FORMAT~
1_split couplet
1_couplet

Elegy :
A sad and thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person.

Cinquain :
A cinquain has five lines.
Line 1 is one word (the title)
Line 2 is two words that describe the title.
Line 3 is three words that tell the action
Line 4 is four words that express the feeling
Line 5 is one word that recalls the title

Blank verse :
Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse.

Ballade:
A type of poem, usually with three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five lines. All stanzas end with the same one-line refrain.

ABC poem :
An ABC poem has 5 lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses - and the first word of each line is in alphabetical order from the first word. Line 5 is one sentence, beginning with any letter.

Ballad :
A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.

Epigram :
A very short, satirical and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain. The term epigram is derived from the Greek word epigramma, meaning inscription.
The epigram was cultivated in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by poets like Ben Jonson and John Donne

Quatrain :
A stanza or poem of four lines.
Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme.
Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme.
Rhyming lines should have a similar number of syllables.

Senryu :
A short Japanese poem that is similar to a haiku in structure but treats human beings rather than nature, often in a humorous or satiric way.

Tanka :
A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven.

Terza rima :
A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllable lines arranged in three-line "tercets". The poet Dante is credited with inventing terza rima and it has been used by many English poets including Chaucer, Milton, Shelley, and Auden.

Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet. The two possible endings for the example above are d-e-d, e or d-e-d, e-e. There is no set rhythm for terza rima, but in English, iambic pentameters are generally preferred.

Sonnet :
English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet.

Rhyme royal :
A type of poetry introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer consisting of stanzas of seven lines in iambic pentameter.

Chant royal:
A poetic form that consists of five eleven-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E.

Rondeau:
A form of French verse also used in English language poetry. It makes use of refrains, repeated according to a certain stylized pattern. It was customarily regarded as a challenge to arrange for these refrains to contribute to the meaning of the poem in as succinct and poignant a manner as possible. The rondeau consists of thirteen lines of eight syllables, plus two refrains (which are half lines, each of four syllables), employing, altogether, only three rhymes. It has three stanzas and its rhyme scheme is as follows: (1) A A B B A (2) A A B with refrain: C (3) A A B B A with concluding refrain C. The refrain must be identical with the beginning of the first line.

Dorsimbra
Made up of three quatrains. The first and twelfth lines are the same. Generally, the first quatrain is Sicilian—four lines iambic pentameter rhymed abab. The second quatrain is snappy free verse. The third quatrain is blank verse—unrhymed iambic pentameter. The best ones use enjambment, internal rhymes, and slant rhymes to bind the three stanzas.

Vignette Poetry:
Relay a short moment in time with visual and emotional impact. Rhyme and specific meter are not required. Alliteration and internal rhyme are virtual necessities. VIGNETTE is a narrative poetry that illustrates a moment in time. It can be written in any traditional form or free verse.

Villanelle:
The villanelle has no established meter, although most nineteenth-century villanelles have used trimeter or tetrameter and most twentieth-century villanelles have used pentameter. The essence of the fixed modern form is its distinctive pattern of rhyme and repetition. The rhyme-and-refrain pattern of the villanelle can be schematized as A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 abA2 abA1A2 where letters ("a" and "b") indicate the two rhyme sounds, upper case indicates a refrain ("A"), and superscript numerals (1 and 2) indicate Refrain 1 and Refrain 2.

Refrain 1 (A1)
Line 2 (b)
Refrain 2 (A2)

Line 4 (a)
Line 5 (b)
Refrain 1 (A1)

Line 7 (a)
Line 8 (b)
Refrain 2 (A2)

Line 10 (a)
Line 11 (b)
Refrain 1 (A1)

Line 13 (a)
Line 14 (b)
Refrain 2 (A2)

Line 16 (a)
Line 17 (b)
Refrain 1 (A1)
Refrain 2 (A2)

Can My Poetry Get Any Worse?

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Six String Samurai (Waka:Choka)

Friday, December 26, 2008

Theatre (Cinquain)

Sleepy (Cinquain)

Writer Insomniac (Epigram)

Secretary (Vers Libre)

Business (Senryu)

That Glimpse of You (Quatrains)

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