Archive for December, 2018

ZaniLa Rhyme Poetry – Bright Coloured Table Setting

ZaniLa Rhyme Poetry – Bright Coloured Table Setting

Orange and red brightly coloured fruit
vitamins to enjoy now
silverware placed, polish gleaming bright
Scent perfumed white flowers take a bow.

Tablecloth a brilliant white with stripe
Beautiful table setting
polish gleaming bright, silverware placed
Bright coloured wall very offsetting

Apricots a smooth clean bright orange
strawberries green leaves intact
silverware placed, polish gleaming bright
Everything perfect accomplished fact

Now for the social gathering planned
visitors arriving soon
polish gleaming bright, silverware placed
will be having a good afternoon.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

What is ZaniLa Rhyme Poetry
The ZaniLa Rhyme, a form created by Laura Lamarca, consists of 4 lines per stanza.
The rhyme scheme for this form is abcb and a syllable count of 9/7/9/9 per stanza.
Line 3 contains internal rhyme and is repeated in each odd numbered stanza.
Even stanzas contain the same line but swapped.

The ZaniLa Rhyme has a minimum of 3 stanzas and no maximum poem length.

Wishing you a Happy Prosperous 2019

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Renewable Energy – Tanka Poem

Renewable Energy – Tanka Poem

with climate changes

renewable energy

its light-bulbs future

time to reconsider thoughts

green energy observer

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

 

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In Harmony

In Harmony 

hands
little hand
large hand together
equals two in harmony
love
joy
feelings from a racing heart
keeps old feeling young
brings a bright
smile

The miracles of enrichment while spending Christmas surrounded by family, enjoyments never to be forgotten.

Mirror Oddquain is

• A decastich (10-line poem) written in two stanzas.
• Syllabic count: 1-3-5-7-1, 1-7-5-3-1
• It should express a complete thought and may be on any theme and express any mood.
• Rhyme is optional

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Summer Solstice – New Zealand Christmas Tanka

Summer Solstice – New Zealand Christmas Tanka Poem

the suns rays shine bright

summer solstice its Christmas

time for beach party

presents are under the tree

happiness is everywhere

On the other side of the world it’s Winter

Winter Solstice Tanka

snow laying around

on other side of the world

Its winter solstice

thinking how lucky we are

enjoying the warm weather

No matter what part of the world it’s Christmas 2018

Merry Christmas everyone

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Oaks a Mighty Tree

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Oak a Mighty Tree

Nature plays a role,
role in her capacity,
capacity always with much love
love flowing over, causing so much flooding.
Flooding is a disaster so many times for some,
some tiny acorn seed washed downstream floats onto fertile soil.
Soil spouts out new life, a mighty oak tree is formed, important regrowth.

Regrowth playing a vital role in forest ecology with oaks,
oaks having tough leathery shells survived many mighty knocks,
knocks helping to crack the shell, too heavy for the wind.
Wind does not help oak trees with germination.
Germination maybe with squirrels,
squirrels planting nuts serve oaks.
Oaks a mighty tree.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

Cortes Nonet – invented by Josephine Ann Louise Cortes-Love  aka MajesticRose on AllPoetry, March 2012. It was inspired by the original Nonet.

14 lines (2 stanzas, 7 lines each)
First stanza syllable count as follows:  5/7/9/11/13/15/17
Second stanza syllable count as follows:  17/15/13/11/9/5
The last word of each line is the first word of the next line.  (word form)
The first word of the second stanza can either be the last word of the first stanza OR a new word

The poem can rhyme or have no rhyme at all. Centred.

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Blackbirds – Double Etheree Poem

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Blackbirds – Double Etheree Poem

All

blackbirds

eat earthworms

berries and fruit

have yellow eye-ring

male, glossy black plumage

juveniles, females, dark brown

defends its breeding territory

winter food available they stay

although occupying different areas

male attracts female with courtship display

most couples stay together till death

mud lined nest with bluish green eggs

female incubates the eggs

young feed by both parents

second broods common

great singing voice

can mimic

other

birds.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

Double Etheree – Two Etheree stanzas, where the second one is reversed.Syllabic count: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Rhyme not required.

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Erosion Everywhere

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Erosion Everywhere

Erosion is everywhere
whether it’s in ones life
or part of nature’s moods
the eating away of land
the sea on coastal belts
falling of timber trees
eating away protection
of dangerous gases
floating around the air
polluting the world

Maybe a spider web broken
that’s erosion of its home
How many more homes
to disappear from one’s life
So much misery for humans
manners have changed
no please or thank you’s
These days human bodies
are slowing showing the
effects of a life of erosion.

Destruction is everywhere
leaders of the country
forever changing rules
life hanging on a thread.
Too many guns around
schools work under stress
every day children suffer
erosion of their little lives
not knowing what to do
the laws need repairing.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

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Pantoum Poetry – Park Bench Seat

Pantoum Poetry – Park Bench Seat

Have you sat on my bench seat
Before all the undergrowth took over
Mothers would sit on me nursing babies
Some would even feed a child

Before all the undergrowth took over
Men would stop and talk to the mothers
Some would even feed a child
Young lovers would enjoy sitting on me

Men would stop and talk to the mothers
Some were angry and shouted
Young lovers would enjoy sitting on me
Even they were angry at times

Some were angry and shouted
Birds would stop and perch on top of me
Even they were angry at times
But no one ever cleaned me

Birds would come and perch on me
Mothers would sit on me nursing babies
But no one ever cleaned me
Have you ever sat on my bench seat.

How to Write a Pantoum Poetry

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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Amanda’s Pinch Poem – Grapes to Wine

Amanda’s Pinch Poem Grapes to Wine

Grapes beautiful red, blue, yellow, green or crimson,
grapes for the table or the making of fine wine. 
wine aroma comes from the strong thick skins
wine tasters always smell the wine.
Wine tasters always smell the wine
Grape wine, non alcoholic always wins
Wine tasters enjoy, they always walk a straight line
Tasty grape wine for you and me is the mission.

Amanda’s Pinch Poetry
It was Created by  Amanda J. Norton, Oct. 18, 2013 on Allpoetry

Syllable count 12/12/10/8/8/10/12/12
Rhyme Scheme abcDDcba, (with line 5 a refrain of line 4)
Alliteration is required in every line.
It looks well centred.
Its structure giving the impression of being gently pinched together,
then springing back in a mirror image.
It may be doubled.

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Con-Verse Poetry Form – Bridal Journey

Bridal Journey

Beauty to warm the cool air
Joy to be a millionaire

Bridal journey in a canoe
the strong smell of woodland mildew

Rugged valley, it’s quite dangerous
careful so not to endanger us

Brilliance of snow-clad hills in the distance
to see the beauty of its existence

Clouds appearing over the highest ridge top
it is time to move before we have a quick stop.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley – aka kiwinana

Con-Verse consists of three or more 2-line rhyming stanzas (couplets). The meter of this form is in syllabic verse.

Rhyme scheme: aa,bb,cc,dd,ee
Meter: 7,7,8,8,9,9,10,10,11,11

(Syllabic verse only counts the number of syllables in a line.)

This form consists of three or more couplets which ascend by one syllable up to and until you reach a syllabic count of eleven which would contain ten lines.

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