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My Brady’s Touch Poem – Challenging Poetry

Apr 5

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Brady’s Touch Poem – Challenging Poetry

Most poetry is written from the heart 
Not sure it’s eternal graffiti
because poets are real artists
Some graffiti is beautiful
Whoopee

Indifference is the state of art
it is like calling someone sweetie
Poetry gives us love, we harvest
Sometimes it is not suitable
Agree.

Brady’s Touch – a decastich (10-line poem) created by Maryann Merryweather-Travis on November 2006, in honor of Allen Brady.

  • It is made of 2 quintets (5-line stanzas) with a specific rhyme and syllabic count.
  • Line length: Each stanza follows the same pattern of 9-9-8-8-2 syllables.
  • Rhyme scheme: abxcd abxcd
  • Thus the second stanza is an exact replica of the first stanza in terms of line length and rhyme. The poem really has a nice sound, with the rhyming sounds being so far apart from each other.

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Double Tetractys Poetry – Wasting My Time

Mar 12

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Double Tetractys Poetry – Wasting My Time 

now

I like

sitting down

reading poetry

it’s the place I willingly love to be

poetry is my passion in retirement

if it’s wasted

it’s my time

to waste

yes

Double Tetractys is a decastitch (10-line stanza) with an emphasis on the syllabic count of each line.

  • Syllabic count: 1-2-3-4-10-10-4-3-2-1
  • It should express a complete thought and may be on any theme and express any mood.
  • Rhyme is optional.

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English Tanka Poetry – Feelings of Autumn

Mar 9

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English Tanka Poetry – Feelings of Autumn

 

early autumn sun

shining through the distant mist

throwing dark shadows

in harmony with the air

living in dreamland again

English Tanka Poetry – a Verse that consists of five units, usually in the following pattern of 5-7-5-7-7 which is syllables.

What is a syllable?

  1. a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.

The first three lines (5/7/5) are the upper phase. This upper stage is where you create an image in your reader’s mind.

The last two lines (7/7) of a Tanka poem are called the lower phase. The final two lines should express the poet’s ideas about the image that was created in the three lines above.

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Pantoum Poem – Snow Leopard Hunting Season

Mar 7

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Pantoum Poem – Snow Leopard Hunting Season

So she kept prowling the mountain side

Hoping to keep her off spring alive

Food was scarce after bushfires

There was no place to hide

 

Hoping to keep her off spring alive

She slipped down the mountain side

There was no place to hide

Late autumn in the bush it was suicide

 

She slipped down the mountain side

Landing rather hard on her backside

Late autumn in the bush it was suicide

She came across a large slip

 

Landing rather hard on her backside

Not seeing straight everything was magnified

She came across a large slip

There were two deers ready for supply

 

Not seeing straight everything was magnified

Focusing should have been a easy routine

There were two deers ready for supply

Those deers were on the other side of the slip

 

Focusing should have been a easy routine

Food was scarce after bushfires

Those deers were on the other side of the slip

So she kept prowling the mountain side

How to Write a Pantoum Poem

The design is simple:

Line 1

Line 2

Line 3

Line 4

Line 5 (repeat of line 2)

Line 6

Line 7 (repeat of line 4)

Line 8

Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza, then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.

Last stanza:

Line 2 of previous stanza

Line 3 of first stanza

Line 4 of previous stanza

Line 1 of first stanza

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Dizain Poem & Quote – Wisdom in Old Age

Mar 3

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Dizain Poem & Quote – Wisdom in Old Age

wisdom, is realising you know nothing
everything is not like it used to be
listen, closely, what others are saying
depression, try laughter it’s guaranteed
avoid stress try learning to live carefree
don’t try pleasing everyone, please yourself
forget all the bad things and pride oneself
true, sad heart will repair if you let it
hold to your dreams, don’t live life on a shelf
wisdom is, learn to laugh not throw a fit.

Dizain Poem It is a French poem popular in the 15th and 16th centuries, it is a single stanza of 8 or 10 lines (10 being more common), with 8 or 10 syllables in each line, the rhyme scheme is ababcdcd, or ababbccdcd

Summary – This poem is a 10 lined, 10 syllables, with rhyme ababbccdcd

Quote

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken, before the years can make it wise.” ― Sara Teasdale. 

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Tanka Poetry – Growth and Wisdom

Feb 27

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Tanka Poetry – Growth and Wisdom

fountain of wisdom

helps to bring personal growth

like the three wise owls

It is the key to treasure

believe in yourself always

Tanka Poetry consists of five units, usually with the following pattern of  –  5-7-5-7-7 which is syllables.

The first three lines (5/7/5) are the upper phase. This upper stage is where you create an image in your reader’s mind.

The last two lines (7/7) of a Tanka poem are called the lower phase.  The final two lines should express the poet’s ideas about the image that was created in the three lines above.

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Amaranth Poem – Crazy Day

Feb 25

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Amaranth Poem – Crazy Day

Come on
are you
crazy
laughing now
when you
know I fell
breaking my leg
now you are
jubilant.

Copyright © 2019 Elsie Hagley

Amaranth – a invented verse form that was probably created as a teaching tool by Viola Gardner. It makes deliberate use of the 9 most common metric feet.

  • 9 lines strophe. It is a stand alone poem.
  • metric, the 9 most common metric feet are used in sequence.
    L1 Spondee SS
    L2 Iamb uS
    L3 Pyrrhic uu
    L4 Dactyl Suu
    L5 Trochee Su
    L6 Amphimacer SuS
    L7 Choriamb SuuS
    L8 Anapest uuS
    L9 Amphibrach uSu

For me this was a fun form of New poetry to write, I had to go back to school to understand what each line meant, hopefully I got there.

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Sonnet Poem – Key to My Heart

Feb 22

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Sonnet Poem – Key to My Heart

My beloved, you hold the key to my heart

The path of true love is never give up

Love is deep and simple yet complicated.

Through thick and thin you were always there for me

 

I never locked the door to my heart

Even on the darkest days and nights

That key you hold still unlocks my heart

Our hearts live as one locked together forever

 

Fifty-nine years of marriage untold bliss

Never to be locked from each other ever

When that day comes when we say goodbye

We will make our way to heaven with peace

 

Locked in each other arms to rest in accord

With the key that lasts forever in my heart.

Copyright © 2019 Elsie Hagley

A Sonnet is a poem written in fourteen lines with each line usually having ten syllables. There are various rhyming options for sonnets.  Shakespeare used the rhyming pattern: ABAB CDCD EDED GG. Look up Sonnet if you need help and come up with your own fourteen line poem”.

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Analogue Poem – A New Day Comes and Goes

Feb 20

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Analogue Poem – A New Day Comes and Goes

The stars of night all gone, a new day breaks,

the sky rather cloudy as the wind rose

a field of green wet grass sparkles and glows,

then rain coming from the south overtakes.

ice cold striking moisture with hail outbreaks.

enjoy the chills today it rarely snows,

take care driving, there is ice on the road.

It’s fine this evening, looking at the sky,

you can reflect on the stars floating by.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

Analogue – is a metered invented form that is limited to 3 rhymes. It’s source is Rena Ferguson Parks a 20th century poet and educator.

  • a poem of 9 lines.
  • metered, all lines are iambic pentameter.
  • rhymed, rhyme scheme abbaabbcc

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Tanka Poetry – Joy of Sharing

Feb 16

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Tanka Poetry  – Joy of Sharing

perfect sunny day

filled with the joy of sharing

treasure the season

fresh clean air is everywhere

new life bubbling all around

Copyright © 2019 Elsie Hagley.

Tanka Poetry – consists of five units, usually with the following pattern of  –  5-7-5-7-7 which is syllables.

The first three lines (5/7/5) are the upper phase. This upper stage is where you create an image in your reader’s mind.

The last two lines (7/7) of a Tanka poem are called the lower phase.  The final two lines should express the poet’s ideas about the image that was created in the three lines above.

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