Form Friday: What Poetry Forms do I want to Explore in 2016?

Next Friday is January 1, 2016, I need to decide what poetry forms I want to explore during the year. Today, I will list some of the forms I have decided to attempt in the up coming year. I do not know which one I will attempt first.

An ekphrastic poem about a work of art.
A Blitz poem.
A diminished hexaverse.
A monchielle.
A lipogram poem.
A double diminished hexaverse.
A lilibonelle.

Poetry form of the week: The difference between Haiku and Senryu

I posted two poems earlier today. One of the poems was a haiku, which is a Japanese 3-line 17-syllable poem. The syllable count is 5-7-5 and the subject of this form is nature, weather, animals, etc.

The other poem was a senryu, which is a 3-line 17-syllable Japanese form. The syllable count is also 5-7-5, but the subject of this poem human nature, activities, etc.

What I have learned about writing poetry

Today’s lesson in writing poetry concerns attempting a new or unfamiliar form. Never attempt to write a poem in a form you are not familiar with when you are tired.

I wanted to use the Brady’s Touch form, but I ended up writing a free verse poem. It took me a couple of minutes of staring at a blank screen before I realized I was too tired to attempt a new form. I will try writing a poem using this form again in a couple of days.

: Website Wednesday: A website to find poetry forms

I found a website that has numerous traditional and new poetry forms. The name of the site is Syllables of Velvet, according to the Introduction by Linda Varsell Smith this website contains over 500 different poetry forms. Some of the forms come with examples, while other forms just contain the guidelines. I am looking forward to practicing these forms.

Research Topics: Planning my research

Research topics are normally Tuesday’s theme, since I did not get this posted yesterday (Tuesday, February 28) I am posting it today. There are ten months left in 2012, I want to research these topics in the upcoming months. These subjects may or may not be in research order.

1. Children’s literature
2. My mother’s and my medication
3. Dystopian and utopian fiction
4. Poetry forms
5. Macular Degeneration (for a story)
6. Vacations (I need a vacation, but the only one I am planning is a virtual vacation)
7. Whales (need the information for a novel)
8. Alzheimer’s disease (for a story)
9. Mystic poets and poetry
10. Recipes for beans, rice, and pasta (the main items in my pantry)

Website Wednesday: Poetry Forms

A good place to find different poetry forms is at shadowpoetry.com under Types of Poetry.

If you are looking for a rhyme then check out RhymeZone.

Tuesday Research Topic: Poetry Forms

This week, I am working with these poetry forms.

Sunday - Pi (Archimedes’ Poem) Title: “The letter X symbolizes the Unknown” posted in my writing.com portfolio under the contest Submissions folder. Pi (Archimedes’ Poem) is a 6-line poem that uses the important mathematical constants of Pi = 3.14286. Each line’s word count correlates to the number of pi. There is no rhyme or meter requirement. So the Poem according to Archimedes is built up in this way:
line 1: 3 words
line 2: 1 word
line 3: 4 words
line 4: 2 words
line 5: 8 words
line 6: 6 words.

Monday - Traditional Go Vat Title: “A Sock Dilemma” posted in my writing.com portfolio under the folder Contest Submissions. A Traditional Go Vat Poem that has at least two stanzas that are composed of three lines each, with eight syllables per line. The 1st two lines of each stanza rhyme. The last line of each stanza is a refrain either in whole or in part (the last word in the line). The rhyme scheme is a, a, B, a, a, B.

Tuesday - Burns Stanza AKA Standard Habbie Title: “First Contact” posted in my writing.com portfolio under the fold Contest Submissions. Burns Stanza AKA Standard Habbie consists of 6-line stanzas, with no stanza limit. The rhyme scheme is a, a, a, b, a, b and the syllabic structure is 8, 8, 8, 6, 8, 6.

Wednesday – Yama (not yet written). A Yama is composed of quatrain (4-line) stanzas, without stanza limits. Each line has six syllables, with a rhyme scheme of a, b, c, b …. The subject of this poem is death, grief, sorrow or simply a poem of loss and the poem must have a title.

Thursday – Sedoka (not yet written). A Sedoka is a 2-stanza poem with 3 lines each. The syllable count is 5, 7, 7 and 5, 7, 7. This poem addresses the same subject from different perspectives and does not rhyme.

Friday – Rubliw (not yet written). A Rubliw is a poem written as a message to someone, or group, or humanity. It is a monorhymed, with all the lines having the same rhyme. Its syllable structure is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and is centered.

Saturday – Roundeley (not yet written). A Roundeley has no stanza limits, but must have at least two stanzas. Each stanza consists of four lines, with no specific syllable count. There is no restrictions on syllable count.

Please note that the source of my research this week is “A Poem a Day” contest on writing.com. Visit My Portfolio @ Writing.Com

Midweek Reflections on Odes

It is Wednesday. This week I am attempting to write an Ode. There are several four types of Odes: (1) English or Keatsian Ode, (2) Pindaric Ode, (3) Horatian Ode, and (4) Sapphic Ode. I am working on a English Ode and the deadline for completion is Saturday, October 1, at 9:00 PM Pacific Time.

The English (Keatsian) Ode is composed of three stanzas, with each stanza containing ten line of Iambic Pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a. b. a. b. c. d. e. c. d. e. All the stanzas have the same scheme, but each stanza has its own rhyme. I am working this ode on this week.

Ochtfochlach poetry form

Ochtfochlach poems consist of eight lines with a consistent length and meter chosen by the poet. The rhyme scheme is AAAB CCCB. I want to write a poem using this form, but I cannot think of a subject or theme. Sometimes using a specific form is easy and sometime difficult. Right now, I am finding it difficult. I am going to the laundromat tomorrow; perhaps I can come up with something there.

Writing Type: Poetry Forms - Tongue Twister Poems

This is week 15 of the Poetic Exploration challenge on writing.com. The form this week is tongue twister poetry. A tongue twister poem is a poem whose lines and verses are difficult to read aloud because they contains words using similar consonant in succession (alliteration). This for requires neither end rhyme nor internal rhyme. Click on the following links to read more about this poetry form Tongue Twisters and Tongue Twister Poem.

Writing Types: Working with poetry forms

Some poetry forms are hard and some are easy. When working with a specific form, I find that going with my first thoughts is best. Sometimes I push the first idea aside and attempt to think of another, but that does not work. If I push the first idea aside then I put off writing the poem because I am waiting for a “better” idea.

This is week 14 of the Poetic Exploration challenge on writing.com. The challenge begins on Sunday, the day we receive the form of the week in our e-mail boxes, and ends on Saturday. The poem can be posted any time the week. Tyburn is the form we are working with this week.

Tyburn is a six-line poem with a syllable count of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 per line. The first four lines contain descriptive rhyming words. The final two line rhyme, with the words of the first, second, third, and fourth lines used in the fifth through eighth syllables. This is not an easy form to use because of the rhyme scheme and syllable count. The title of my Tyburn poem is “Chocolate Easter Bunny”. I posted the poem in my port in the book “Writing In Snow”. Visit My Portfolio @ Writing.Com

Senryu Poetry Form

Senryu, a Japanese poetry form, is normally written in three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables. It can also be a three-line poem with 17 syllables or less. A single senryu contains only one stanza of one three-line verse, while a senryu string contains more the one senryu. The difference between a senryu is the subject. The natural world is the subject of the haiku, while the subject of senryu is human nature. The first line of the senryu is the subject and the last two are the action of the poem.

The Cleave Poetry Form

The Cleave Poetry Form is three poems in one. The first two poems are the left and right hand poems, which you read separately and the third poems is the combined poems, which you read as one poem. I will write more about this poetry form after I do some more research. See my example below:

Solar Day

One day ends in glory, another day begins,
rotates into the past, the present never ends,
seasons revolve in order, nights grow longer or shorter.

Epulaeryu: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Fond memories of childhood
A slice of white bread
On which grape jelly is spread
And another slice
With peanut butter
Together
WOW!

Epulaeryu is described in Epulaeryu: Poetry form dedicated to food.

Epulaeryu: A poetry form dedicated to the subject of food

Epulaeryu is a poetry form dedicated to the subject of food. Joseph S. Spence Sr. (aka Samuel Black) created this form. The word "epulaeryu" is a combination of the Latin word "epula" meaning "feast or large meal" and "ryu", which comes from an Asian art form, meaning "style or form".

Epulaeryu is a seven line poem composes of 32 syllables. The 1st line has 7 syllables, the 2nd line 5 syllables, the 3rd line 7, the 4th line 5, the 5th line 5, the 6th line 3, and the 7th line 1 syllable, with an explanation point ending the last line. In this form, while rhyme is encouraged, it is optional.

For more on this form see Definition of Epulaeryu Poetry - Part One (The Name) by Samuel Black. This article contains a delicious poem about Curried Chicken.

Thirty form poems in ten weeks

The Poetry in Motion challenge ends on Saturday, May 22. I finished the three forms for this week and post them on May 17. The forms I used this week are

1. Paper lantern/Little Lantern/Lanterne
2. Kyoka
3. The Spenserian Sonnet and Iambic Pentameter

 

The forms used in the past nine weeks are listed in Twenty Seven Form Poems in Nine Weeks, Twenty-four Form Poems in Eight Weeks, Twenty-one Form Poems in Seven Weeks, and Eighteen Form Poems in Six Weeks.

 

Twenty-four Form Poem in Eight Weeks

I have now written twenty-four form poems in eight weeks. One-third of these forms are easy, one-third of them are hard, and the other third are in between. The first eighteen poems are listed in the entry Eighteen form poems in Six Weeks. I listed forms nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one in the entry Twenty-one Form Poems in Seven Weeks. The three latest forms are

1. Haiku, Brazilian
2. Trois-par-Huit
3. The Ballade and Anapestic Tetrameter

I placed these poems in the book Poetry in Motion Poems, which you can read if you Visit My Portfolio @ Writing.Com. This is week nine of the Poetry in Motion challenge and I have three more forms to work with this week.

Focusing on writing form poetry March thruogh June

In March the Poetry in Motion, challenge begins on writing.com. The idea of the challenge is to write, at least, one for poem a week for several weeks. The challenge begins on March 20 and ends in June.

Each week the contestants have a choice of using a hard, medium, or easy form. I am looking forward to learning new forms. Writing form poetry is a challenge, but it's a challenge that is fun. There are other things I have to do as well, however I carry a small journal with me anywhere I go, so I can work on the poems or any other writing items while I'm doing other things. The only exception to that is housework and I can think about the poem while I doing housework.

More storms are on their way to Las Vegas

Rain appears to be the theme of the year. There are two more storms on their way to Las Vegas. We expect one to arrive Tuesday afternoon or evening. The second is predicted to arrive Friday or Saturday. This is only February and we've already had more rain then in all of 2009.

Rain and clouds make good theme for poems. I've written several rain poems over the past few weeks. Most of the rain poems were Haiku, so I think I will try using other poetry forms, since I'm using different poetry forms in February the rain will make a good subject.

The rain can get a bit tiresome, especially driving in it. I think I've written one poem about driving in the rain. It's about time I wrote another poem on that subject, especially since I probably going to drive in the rain to Henderson tomorrow afternoon. I have an appointment for an ultrasound of my left breast about 2:30 PM.

I can't change the appointment simply because I think it's going to rain. It may rain later in the evening rather then the afternoon. I'm not counting on if, of course, because in the past few weeks each time I've had important business to do, I end up driving in the rain; therefore, I may as well get used to driving in the rain.

Sunday Morning Writing

Jamál (Beauty), 1 Mulk (Dominion), 166 BE – Sunday, February 7, 2010 about 10:18 AM Pacific Time

It's Sunday morning, the beginning of a new week and a new 19-day period of achievement. I'm doing fair when it comes to achieving my writing goal. I'm working with form poem this 19-days, I don't think I'll complete all the forms I want to use before February 25. If I don't then I will continue working with form for the next 19-days.

I enjoy using poetry form because they are a challenge. Using poetry forms is a way to keep my mind and brain active. Some of the forms I remember easily and some it takes time to remember them. I'm keeping track of all the forms I use, this way I can go back to the Poetry Forms document when I want to use a different form or I get into a rut using the same form all the time.