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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Swine (Playwright)

(Scene: Jane opens the door and finds trash, bottles, and food containers littered everywhere in her apartment!)

JANE.
What happened to my apartment!? There's trash everywhere! Oh my God, who did this?

(Enter DAN.)

DAN.
Jane, you're home!

JANE.
Dan! I should have known! I trusted you with my keys, and this is what you do: you break my stuff while you and your friends role play all day long. What do you have to say for yourself?

(Enter LANA, hiding behind a door, but peeking, with towel- naked.)

LANA.
(coy): My lord, thy chambers hath gone cold.

DAN.
(pretentious): Now Jane, you know how dedicated I am to my Live Action Role Playing. I never back down from a challenge.

JANE.
It's over. We're breaking up.

DAN.
A difficult challenge, but if you say so!

JANE.
And you're paying for the damages.

DAN.
There's a spell in RPG's for that. When you reenter the room, magically everything returns to normal again!

(Exit DAN. The girls wait. He never comes.)

LANA.
He deserted me. We were to make love 'til the morning rise!

JANE.
Please! You'll be faking it anyways!

(Curtain.)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Ratings... (Senryu)

It isn't working
I'm just selling myself short
I feel really cheap

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Advertisement Whore (Vers Libre)

It had to be done
My reputation
This new one, I mean
It isn't me
But it's what I need
To sell, to buy
Just get attention
Shit, all of it
But that's what they want
And it's what I need...

Monday, September 1, 2008

Murphy's Law (Epigram)

I tried so hard to have it finished tonight!
Oh God, please Lord, I pray I did it right?

Sunday, August 31, 2008

to: Kim-Yen (Senryu)

The Sunset's qualm
They argue, then I arg---
Shh, who will listen?

Acceptance (Tanka)

They want someone else
I try, but it's not enough
I just want to be
I question worth beyond them
And wish to live - accepted...

Miya: The Damsel in Doubt (Tanka)

"Let her be" he said
Drink 'til consequences fail
Why did she say no?
Could it be, she was afraid?
Then I'll fight for love, Miya!

Sex and Marraige (Dorsimbra)

...so then he will become the man needed
To love you then ever so much, Michelle
For when he's committing to this, he shall
As time has sprung to love to ring the bell!

Do not leave his side
Hard times occur as often good
And when you do give in
You'll realize that "it" becomes "us"

Please take heed now before you lose yourself
Diamonds taken precariously opt
Cannot sparkle until you will "I do."
...so then he will become the man needed

NOTE: Sicilian is an iambic pentameter in "a-b-a-b" rhyme.
1st and 12th line must be identical.

[Pentameter]
[Sicilian + Free Verse + Blank Verse]

Hat (Cinquain)

Hat
Head Decor
It fashionably covers
I love wearing it
Top

Saturday, August 30, 2008

6:04pm (Haiku)

The sun sets at west
Cascading the hill's solid brow
It is Six O'four

Bad Call (Quatrain)

Kick off the ball to the side lines
And tell me of all my follies
Concern the Referee of me
I'll fist your mouth with my jollies

[Tetrameter]

Life...? (Epigram)

Mar my arduous antics as of late
I tire of the monotonous day
Leave me presents and usual pleasantries
I'll lie for your sake and smile oh so gay!

For you do nothing worth your time alone
So why should I believe it's worth mine own?

[Pentameter]

Singing (Tanka)

I sing a song too
It lessens the burden now
But reminisces
Just to keep my heart beating
I curse and complain to her

Last Round (Split Couplet)

This is the last one I swear
God I swear
My writing is easy street
Oh it's sweet

Insomnia (Senryu)

Tired again man
Such a bad habit kills me
Insomnia sucks

Friday, August 29, 2008

I wanna move already (Senryu)

Where am I going?
Home is where the heart is, right?
I can't find her pulse.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Just Bored (Quatrain)

There is nothing much else to do
Probably practice some voodoo
Worse off I might not even try
I might as well end up like you

[Tetrameter]

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

to: p0isonphotography (Senryu)

You're screwed royally
There's a bat near the wall
You know where he lives

Poem #50 (Sonnet)

Get out of here
You so were not
Shut up you lie
You're smoking pot!
There's no such thing
Bullshit there is
Whatever bitch
You're full of piss
You so are drunk
You dumb ass fuck
Leave me alone
Before you chuck
Yeah real clever?
Punks For Ever!

[Dimeter]

If Werewolf Babes Sleep In? (Butterfly Cinquain)

Awake
So too awake
I can't fucking sleep dude
But my eyes sting like shit so dry
Damn Moon
Like a werewolf on P. M. S.
If there were such a thing
I'd ask her this
Why sleep?

[2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2]

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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)

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