Can My Poetry Get Any Worse?

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Writer's Block (Blank Verse)

Starving for inspiration
I cannot find

Loss in my own words
I cannot rhyme

I make due with what's here
But never find

A poem I wish to write
On borrowed time

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]

Moronic Ideal (Triplet)

I won't sleep a wink
Until I can think
Inspiration's brink

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

My House (Sonnet)

Waking to a room of white, tactful with muck for colors resonating gray-browns
Familiar whistles and chattering chimes the day to be reckoned as my early morn
Trapped between walls, corners bleak of life, stringing with silk webs and dusty rusty molds
The floor dirt filled and dust too scrub bare feet with aging carpet thus almost forlorn
Cars pass with muffler engine roarers disturbing the peace we frustratingly live
Shouting and complaints echoing through our culdesac havens that reminds us all
There is a heaven, there is a paradise, there is a hell, But this must suffice
For struggles implore faith in hopes to dream imaginative amongst the dull
Suppose this was a home, being that it is a house, we should live and work as one
But to be one with those whom differ from your purpose, communication must come
And conjuring the such fairs less with your own conscience and much less with mine own
Keep trinkets to reminisce and new ones for hope, hours pass idly and then some
Fry the chicken and serve the sodas, give the monotony we coordinate
Life is this and forgiving is that, there's none to lose but the coed intricate

[Decameter]

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Lullaby (Limerick)

She writes with keys going for so long
Typing sad stories to market one song
She cries her tears
Line up the beers
Selling her soul to say "Nothing is wrong!"

Brothel (Epigram)

It occurred to me that no one can talk with even a little bit of diction
I suppose after reading only body language, all that's left is friction

NOTE: Short witty poem in Couplets or Quatrains.

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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)

Can My Poetry Get Any Worse?

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Writer's Block (Blank Verse)

Poem #50 (Sonnet)

If Werewolf Babes Sleep In? (Butterfly Cinquain)

Moronic Ideal (Triplet)

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

My House (Sonnet)

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Lullaby (Limerick)

Brothel (Epigram)

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