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Reflections Of Life

Nov 26

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#New Poetry Form

Reflections Of Life

Time to find who I am
Experiencing my faults
Roaring voices assaults
Bringing me down

Accepting my troubles
Opened another door
Showing me a mentor
The inner light

Healing forgiveness
Blessings and gratitude
Changes my attitude
Helps to make peace

Self-transformation starts
Time to pause and reflect
There weren’t any defects
Only pity.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley – aka kiwinana

Abhanga is a Marathi form. Marathi being one of the major languages of India. It is the official language of Maharashtra, and is also spoken in several neighbouring states in the west of the country, including Goa and Karnataka. 

Abhanga is: stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains (4 line stanzas). syllabic, 6/6/6/4 syllables.

L2 and L3 are rhymed. Often internal rhyme is employed. 

End rhyme scheme x a a x , (x being unrhymed).

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#Alphabet Haiku: This Week – Letter U – Uguisu – Japanese Bush-Warbler

Nov 24

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#Alphabet Haiku Challenge or AHC

 Alphabet Haiku, which is a Weekly Challenge of Abigail Gronway, this week it is the letter (U)

ultimate unique
understanding Uguisu
unforgettable

  • Every word in the haiku must begin with the same letter.
  • When written in English, it generally follows the syllabic pattern 5-7-5
  • Haiku/Senryu Poetry – Here is an in-depth description of Haiku/Senryu Poem (also called human haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. Senryu is usually written in the present tense and only references to some aspect of human nature or emotions. They possess no references to the natural world and thus stand out from nature/seasonal haiku.

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

Below are the Alphabet Haiku for Letters R, S, T which can be found on http://kiwinana74.blogspot.com/

R – Rattlesnake

relaxed rattlesnake

realistically rambles

rolling rapidly

S – Scorpion

surveys seriously

show some scorpions species

survive starvation

T – Tuatara

two tuataras

together taste tepid treats

trusting true tonic

How to pronounce tuatara:   too-uh-tahr-uh

Author note: What is a Tuatara is a small to medium sized reptiles endemic to New Zealand, can live well over 100 years. Tuatara are greenish brown and grey, and measure up to 80 cm (31 in) from head to tail-tip, their dentition, in which two rows of teeth in the upper jaw overlap one row on the lower jaw, what is  more unusual in having a pronounced photoreceptive eye, the “third eye”. They are able to hear, although no external ear is present, also have excellent vision. Their reproduction is very slowly, taking 10 to 20 years to reach sexual maturity. Males don’t have a penis, reproducing by the male lifting the female tail and placing his vent over hers.Mating occurs in midsummer, females mate and lay eggs once every four years, their eggs have a soft, parchment-like shell which she digs and lays into the ground.

Their diet consists of frogs, lizards, and bird’s eggs, chicks, beetles, crickets, and spiders, today the tuatara is nearly extinct on the mainland of New Zealand, only living on small island around NZ.

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Pantoum Poetry Form – Pohutukawa – NZ Christmas Tree

Nov 23

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Pantoum Poetry Form – Pohutukawa – NZ Christmas Tree

#New Poetry Form

Pohutukawa – Christmas Tree

Generic name Metrosideros excelsa
Known as the Pohutukawa NZ Christmas tree
A coastal land evergreen tree in the Myrtle family
Growing on the land of the long white cloud

Known as the Pohutukawa NZ Christmas tree
Bright red colour everywhere at Christmas
Growing on the land of the long white cloud
Joy to behold in hot weather, very tall trees

Bright red colour everywhere at Christmas
Wet weather can shorten the time to enjoy
Joy to behold in hot weather, very tall trees
Spectacular brilliant crimson flowers everywhere

Wet weather can shorten the time to enjoy
Rotorua lakes produce pink to yellow shades
Spectacular brilliant crimson flowers everywhere
Its wood is dense strong and highly figured

Rotorua lakes produce pink to yellow shades
Certainly a unusual shade for the Pohutukawa
Its wood is dense strong and highly figured
Frequently used in ship building, and heavy items

Certainly a unusual shade for the Pohutukawa
A coastal land evergreen tree in the Myrtle family
Frequently used in ship building, and heavy items
Generic name Metrosideros excelsa

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

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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Cortes Nonet Poem – Farming – Lovers of Nature

Nov 22

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Cortes Nonet Poem – Farming – Lovers of Nature

#New Poetry Form

Farming is the life

Life of love and devotion

Devotion, commitment for farming

Farming is a real passion that we all love

Love from sunrise to sunset daily and much longer

Longer days calving-time, harvesting, twenty-four hours a day

Day is another word for counting the calendar of a lifetime.

Farming is a winner, where there’s value for the soil, water, wildlife

Wildlife flying over head, animals calling in the bush

Bush where conservation obligations always reign

Reign supreme for the future generations

Generations most often value land

Land, farmers always cherish

Cherish forever.

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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