Category Archives: In-Form Poet

12 June 2013

IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – APPRECIATE

By Poetic Bloomings

In highlighting the creative minds of our poets, there is one aspect on which we have only brushed the surface, that being in the matter of newly created form. We’ve used many forms in this segment of POETIC BLOOMINGS that have been developed by people outside of our realm of influence. But….

This week we tap Earl Parsons in a form the he’s been working the kinks out of, and I’ve decided to help Earl present it here in his “own” words:

We’ve all heard the cheer, “2, 4, 6, 8, Who do we appreciate!!” Well, here’s a poetic form based on that cheer. It’s simple:

A poem of one 5 line stanza with syllable counts of, hold it now, just a minute, I think you guessed it….. 2, 4, 6 and 8 with the fifth line being 7 syllables, just as the line “Who do we appreciate.” There is no rhyming pattern to follow, however, the subject of the poem must be something that is appreciated (I guess that will eliminate politics, war, or socially polarizing issues). Simple, no?

Let’s give it a go with two examples from Earl:

Love

True love
So pure of heart
Can never be taken
Even though one may pass away
True love will always live on

Or this:

Cat Licked

Cold nose
Sniffing my face
Whiskers tickling my cheek
Is it love or is it hunger
Quick before I get cat licked

~ Earl Parsons

 

AND NOW OUR EXAMPLES:

 

MARIE ELENA’S ATTEMPT:

SPAMMER

 Sincere
Indebtedness
And appreciation
For how pertinent my viewpoint
Is to you in this moment.

© Copyright Marie Elena Good – 2013

 (I hope sarcasm is acceptable, Earl.  But I mean, seriously … how gullible do these spammers think we are?  HA!)

WALT’S APPRECIATE:

IN HER THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

She prays.
Keeping those near
amongst her intentions.
No mention of her own distress.
It is best we pray for her.

© Copyright Walter J. Wojtanik – 2013
 
(Hope you had a nice walk, Marie!)
 
Walt, you are so very kind.  Thank you!  And yes,  I love my morning walks.  ~Marie

258 comments | posted in APPRECIATION (form by Earl Parsons), In-Form Poet, Instruction

5 June 2013

IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – HEXSONNETTA

By Poetic Bloomings

The HexSonnetta, created by Andrea Dietrich, consists of two six-line stanzas and a finishing rhyming couplet with the following set of rules:

Meter: Iambic Trimeter
Rhyme Scheme: a/bb/aa/b c/dd/cc/d ee

Iambic Trimeter means the usual iambic (alternating unstressed/stressed) meter for every line of the poem, but instead of the ten syllables that comprise a typical sonnet’s iambic pentameter, this particular form uses six syllables of iambic trimeter per line. Thus, the name HexSonnetta. The first part of the form’s name refers to the syllable count per line. The second part of the name, Sonnetta, is to show this to be a form similar to the sonnet, yet with its shorter lines and different rhyme scheme, it is not the typical sonnet. Not only does this poem have six syllables per line, it also has a set of two six-line stanzas, giving an extra “hex” to the meaning of HexSonnetta. The rhyme scheme is a bit of a mixture of the two traditional sonnet types, with the two 6-line stanzas having more the rhyme scheme of an Italian sonnet, but with the ending rhyming couplet being the featured rhyme scheme of the English sonnet. The first stanza presents the theme of the poem, with the second stanza serving to change the tone of the poem, to introduce a new aspect of the theme or to give added details. The final couplet, as in an English sonnet, can be either a summary (if the theme is simple) or it could be the resolution to a problem presented in the theme. In any event, it should nicely tie together the whole piece and could even appear as a nice “twist” presented at the end.

MARIE ELENA’S ATTEMPT

WAGING WAR

 Her strength is weakly veiled
To those who know her well
And see the utter hell
With which she is assailed
In every breath inhaled;
Concealed in every cell.
 
Decisions made with grit,
That wells from depths unknown
To shake her to the bone,
And yet she doesn’t quit.
To this, I must admit:
I place her on a throne.
 
Her angels battle on;
Triumphant swords are drawn.
 
© Copyright Marie Elena Good  - 2013

WALT’S HEXSONNETTA:

HEART SHADOWS FALL

Beneath the moonlit sky
two lovers seek repose,
for lovers in the throes
of passion by-and- by,
would bring a fool to cry,
for that’s the way love goes.

These shadows cast at night,
are of the hearts that fall,
they live to hear love’s call
before they drop from sight,
for when the time is right,
two hearts will share it all.

The moon’s bright lights caress
the hearts within their chests.

© Copyright Walter J. Wojtanik – 2013

112 comments | posted in HexSonnetta (Form), In-Form Poet, Instruction, Last minute details

22 May 2013

IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – EPITHALAMIUM

By Poetic Bloomings

I ask that you indulge me, but my daughter Melissa gets married in two days to her best friend, Ryan and my mind and time have been focused on this happy occasion. I must admit, Dad is getting a bit melancholy and the four of us have been lost in reminiscence. So in keeping with the mood we will delve into trying our hand at an Epithalamium,  a poem written in honor of the bride and groom.

Now,  I’m not fishing for tributes for the two of them, any young married couple can serve as your inspiration. All I ask is to just give it a try. Walt.

MARIE ELENA’S ATTEMPT:

“A cord of three strands is not easily broken.” ~ Ecclesiastes 4:12

ONE (Choka)

A cord of three strands
Is not easily broken
As two become one
In the eyes of God
Woven, entwined, interlaced
Sustained by His might
 
© Copyright  – Marie Elena Good – 2013
 

WALT’S HONOR:

ONE STEP AT A TIME

We walk together, step-by-step,
side-by-side,me filled with pride,
and you a blushing bride.
You cannot hide the love
you have for that man
who waits nervously to take
my place beside you to guide you.
Eyes fixed on you as we stroll
ever closer to the end of this phase
of our lives together. The handsome
guys always get the prettiest girl,
and all I can do is watch you go.
Be happy and grow together.
 
© Copyright  – Walter J. Wojtanik – 2013

 

 

125 comments | posted in Epithalamium (Form), In-Form Poet, Uncategorized

15 May 2013

IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – TABLEAU

By Poetic Bloomings

The Tableau, a poetry form created by Emily Romano in October of 2008, consists of one or more verses, each having six lines. Each line should have five beats. There is no set rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be present. The title should contain the word tableau.

Since the dictionary states the word tableau means picture or representation, the poem should reflect this. A picture should come to mind as the poem is read.

MARIE ELENA’S TABLEAU

“Selfless” Tableau

Three sets of blue eyes
Three smiling babies
Fed, bathed, and PJ’d
Three cuddled angels
 
Two arrived today
Temporarily
Taken in by you
And the spacious heart
You wear on your sleeve.

© Copyright – Marie Elena Good – 2013

WALT’S TABLEAU

COMPOSER’S TABLEAU

In his head, it plays,
a melody strong.
The root of his song
ebbs and flows in waves,
he saves the best part
written from his heart.

In his song are words.
Thoughts that he has heard
over and over.
They say he loves her.
They say that he cares.
It is there he sings.

Songs start in his heart,
each beat is measured,
in a loop of love.
Visions fill his muse
and he refuses
to let his song die.

She knows as he plays
that the song is hers
only a short while,
and she smiles knowing
that she has inspired
what the world will hear.

In her heart it plays.
His melody, strong,
his love in her song.
And he brings the things
in each word he sings;
fingers poised to play.

© Copyright – Walter J. Wojtanik 2013

135 comments | posted in In-Form Poet, Instruction, Tableau (Form)

4 May 2013

BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS – PROMPT #105

By Poetic Bloomings

Another case of a picture being worth a thousand words … or a couple thousand words. And if our perception is our reality, then our poets are as real as can be. We have been impressed once again and it never gets old. Applause and kudos to all writers of verse in this garden of love. BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS are presented to:

MARIE ELENA’S PICK:

Sometimes there is an abundant message and complete story spoken in few words, and their attending silence.  Of all the intriguing, charming, and poignant poems this week, none spoke more effectively than Paula Wanken’s tiny Picu, “Broken.”  Outstanding.

BROKEN  (by Paula Wanken)
(a piku)

All that’s left
is
an empty shell.

WALT’S CHOICE:

We thrive for the opportunity to break out of our shells and step into the world for which we have prepared. And any benefit we glean from our opportunity is all a matter of being at the right place; right time. No better expression of this than what has been proffered by the “flashpoetguy“ (everyone’s mentor, Salvatore Buttaci).  And when the time is right, we’ll know it!

WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT  (by flashpoetguy)

when the egg is broken
determines what you will find
breakfast yolk or gold chick

all of life is in the timing
those distractedly deaf
to the opportune knock

cannot go back in time
and kindly request
a second hearing

in that moment
when you can show kindness
do so without hesitation

#

Congratulations to Paula and Sal, and thanks to Barbara Young for the photo that inspired all of us this week!

12 comments | posted in Achievement, Beautiful Blooms, In-Form Poet

1 May 2013

IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – TROIS-PAR-HUIT

By Poetic Bloomings

DON’T MISS OUR BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! It is May 1, and we have officially completed our second “blooming season” here at Poetic Bloomings. Do you know what that means?  Time to compile our second book of poetry by our fabulous Poetic Bloomings poets!  We have just begun the long and arduous (but fun) process of readying for this second publication.  Information (including what we need from you) may be found here: 
http://poeticbloomings.com/2013/05/01/announcement-poetic-bloomings-the-second-year/.

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Now, on to our new form of the week:

The Trois-par-Huit was created by Lorraine M. Kanter.

Trois-par-Huit (Three-by-Eight or Octa-Tri for short), is a short form containing three stanzas of 3, 3 and 2 lines OR 3, 2 and 3 lines for a total of 8 lines.  The syllable count is 3, 6, 9, 12, 12, 9, 6, 3. The rhyming pattern is AAB BBC CC,  where the last line is the title of the poem and summarizes the meaning of the poem.

FOR MORE INFO : Trois-par-Huit

MARIE ELENA’S ATTEMPT

COME WITH ME (3,3,2 pattern)

Though I fought,
In the end, I was caught.
Ensnared by your captivating line,
 
Infatuated, and wanting you to be mine.
Yet, this I know: Although this land for you is fine,
I prefer my breath beneath the sea.
 
A mermaid must be free.
Come with me.

Copyright © Marie Elena Good, 2013

WALT’S EXAMPLE:

I BELIEVE (3,3,2 Pattern)

In the end,
we have become good friends,
counting on the other for support.

Communication was far from a last resort;
finding a common ground; a person of import
to our lives and what we can achieve.

And to them, we will cleave…
I believe.

© Copyright Walter J. Wojtanik – 2013

116 comments | posted in In-Form Poet, Instruction, Trois-par-Huit (Form)

24 April 2013

IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – CONSTANZA

By Poetic Bloomings

The Constanza, created by Connie Marcum Wong, consists of five or more 3-line stanzas. Each line has a set meter of eight syllables. The first lines of all the stanzas can be read successively as an independent poem, with the rest of the poem weaved in to express a deeper meaning. The first lines convey a theme written in monorhyme, while the second and third lines of each stanza rhyme together.

Rhyme scheme: a/b/b, a/c/c, a/d/d, a/e/e, a/f/f………etc.

(Thanks to Shadow Poetry:  
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/constanza.html
)

MARIE ELENA’S CONSTANZA:

There, but for the grace of God …

 I’m told I should pray for this one.
And yet, I don’t know if I can.
For how does one pray for a man
 
Who’s done what this evil one’s done?
His victims?  Will they pray for him,
Through losses of life, and of limb?
 
My God, did You send Your own Son
To die for this wicked man’s soul?
To kill, maim and mar was his goal.
 
I’m drawn not to pray, but to shun.
Forgive me, I’m lacking in grace -
My prayers are dishonest and base.
 
My God, yes, You gave up Your Son
Who willingly donned human skin,
Then died for my own dreadful sin.
 
Please give me Your heart for this one,
And all who, like him, are misled.
Without You we’re (all of us) dead.
 
© Copyright Marie Elena Good – 2013
 

WALT’S CONSTANZA:

POETRY: BACK IN TIME

I’ve lived without my words – a mime
keeping each one all to myself
like lost thoughts sitting on the shelf.

In the ways of my prose and rhyme
I have arrived to hit my stride
expressing all these thoughts inside.

For I found that in all that time
my words were squandered and wasted,
their sweetness was never tasted.

It was a felonious crime.
Punishment? Echoing silence,
for a man of words it’s violence.

Since early man stepped out of slime,
he wanted to communicate
but sounds that rhymed still had to wait.

He was fascinated with rhyme,
and now he writes them twice as fast,
evoking emotions at last,

a poet ahead of his time!
A trendsetter in thoughts and words;
writing the sweetest rhymes you’ve heard!

© Copyright Walter J. Wojtanik – 2013

**The secret of this CONSTANZA: I went to the Monorhyme link in our IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY directory and used my example I posted there, editing it to seven lines. I used this to complete the CONSTANZA (mindful of the eight-syllable restriction).

179 comments | posted in Constanza (Form), In-Form Poet, Instruction, Monorhyme (Form)

17 April 2013

IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – PANTUN

By Poetic Bloomings

Day 15 at the NaPoWriMo 2013 April adventure featured a glimpse at the Pantun poetic form.

The pantun is a Malay poetic form. Per Wikipedia, the pantun originated as a traditional oral form of expression. The most common theme is love.

The basic pantun consists of a quatrain (4-line verse). Commonly, each line contains between 8 and 12 syllables, and employs an abab rhyme scheme.  A pantun traditionally  follows a fixed rhythm.   Again, per Wikipedia, “The first and second lines sometimes appear completely disconnected in meaning from the third and fourth, but there is almost invariably a link of some sort. Whether it be a mere association of ideas, or of feeling, expressed through assonance or through the faintest nuance of a thought, it is nearly always traceable.”

MARIE ELENA’S ATTEMPT:

FADING

 Threadbare blankets lay lightly on the chaise;
His loose change clinking as he shuffles off.
A ticking clock broadcasts that life’s a race,
While clicking cane attends a muffled cough.
 
© Copyright Marie Elena Good – 2013
 

WALT’S PANTUN:

BLOOMS OF LOVE

…and all at once, the rain had ceased.
When did my children grow so quick?
The length of sunshine has increased.
Why has it left me feeling sick

when the warmth of Spring emerges?
Little girls become young women
Comfort in this season’s surges.
and all the changes from within -

blossoms having rooted now bloom,
Decorating each life they touch,
fragrant flowers fill up the room.
truly knowing they mean so much.

Life’s bouquet gathered together,
Grown in love to know what life means;
flourishing in all kinds of weather,
ever-growing, evergreen!

© Copyright Walter J. Wojtanik – 2013

117 comments | posted in In-Form Poet, Pantun (Form), Uncategorized

10 April 2013

IN-FORM POETS WEDNESDAY – QUINZAINE

By Poetic Bloomings

The English word quinzaine comes from the French word qunize, meaning fifteen. A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables.

These syllables are usually distributed among three lines:  seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line, and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement. The next two lines ask a question relating to that statement.

With thanks to Shadow Poetry: 
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/quinzaine.html

MARIE ELENA’S QUINZAINE

All’s all and that’s all all is.
Are y’all still with me?
Anyone?
:D

© Copyright Marie Elena Good – 2013

 

WALT’S QUINZAINE:

Love speaks in hushed tones.
Hear its whisper?
Will it seduce your heart?

© Copyright Walter J. Wojtanik – 2013

145 comments | posted in In-Form Poet, Instruction, Quinzaine (Form)

3 April 2013

IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – DUO-RHYME

By Poetic Bloomings

The Duo-rhyme, a poetic form created by Mary L. Ports, is a 10 or 12-line poem, with the first two and last two lines having the same rhyme scheme, and the center of the poem (lines #3 through #8 or #10) having their own separate monorhyme scheme.

Meter: 8 beats per line, written in iambic tetrameter (4 linear feet of iambic)

Rhyme Scheme: 10-line: a,a,b,b,b,b,b,b,a,a and 12-line: a,a,b,b,b,b,b,b,b,b,a,a

To view Mary L. Ports examples and for information on DUO-RHYME follow this link: 
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/duorhyme.htm
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MARIE ELENA’S TARDY DUO-RHYME:

GIVE ME EYES TO SEE

To look into another’s eyes
And truly see the soul that cries –
The fear and angst on which it feeds
The love that lost, the heart that bleeds
The expectation that misleads
The loveliness beneath the needs
The strength behind the smallest deeds
The blooms among the choking weeds.
This trampled soul with courage tries
Beyond what meets the eye implies.

© Copyright Marie Elena Good – 2013

WALT’S DUO-RHYME:

POEMIC MARATHON

We write our poems every day
in every form, in every way.
The kinds of words the people read,
each day in April, we succeed.
Not out of any dire need,
but rhyming words would plant the seed.
These worded pearls, this string of beads;
fantastic blooms amongst the weeds
All writers with poetic ways,
within this garden, their words play!

© Copyright Walter J. Wojtanik – 2013

113 comments | posted in Duo-Rhyme (Form), In-Form Poet, Instruction

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