Dajer the Dragon

In another age and time
When the races were ravaged by war
Sapphiric in his hue
Dajer the Dragon brought order to chaos.
The proud Elves of the western forests
Daily carving life from the trees.
The spunky Gnomes of the eastern shores
Melting the sands of time into timeless treasures.
The industrious Dwarves of the northern mountains
Mining minerals and ever increasing their wealth.
Dajer the Dragon focused their efforts
Three great palaces arose among the peoples of Orean.
The Dwarves laid stone
The Elves carved wood
The Gnomes blew glass
The three entwined together
Architectural masterpieces arose on each horizon
Peace spread like a blanket
Dajer the Dragon returned to the waters
He and the other Dragons were gone forever


Elizabeth Williamson Copyright © 2009

LAUGHTER

Jolly as a joke
Contagious as a smile
All who hear join in

Laughter fuels the soul
Laughter imbues happiness
Laughter enjoys life


Elizabeth Williamson Copyright © 2009

Limerick Attempt #2

Phew!

I think there’s a thing un'er my bed,

It’s blue and it’s black and it's red;

But a voice from down there,

Says with a confident air,

“I regret that it’s all in your head.”


Phew!
Ken Chandler
Copyright © 2009

Limerick Attempt #1

Back to School

A werewolf, a witch and a ghoul,

Decided they’d go back to school;

When met at the door with a blade,

A pitchfork, a torch, and a spade,

They decided they’d rather play pool.

Back to School: A Limerick

By Ken Chandler

Copyright © 2009

TOPIC: POETRY

new month=new topic. okay so i've noticed that we don't particularly care to write poetry. let's face it, it's just not as fun as prose. on the flip side it's really nice to be able to use your own stuff when you need it. every now and then i find myself in need of poetry to make a story complete. and rather than muck about with a thousand different poets it's so much easier to write it myself. so this is practice for when those times occur when we need something that fits our work just so. and in recognition of Thanksgiving let's run our poems along that theme.

some things to pay attention to are meter and rhythm. words have stress sylables that give a poem hard and soft beats. creATing STOry. Dr Seuss is brilliant at this sort of thing

here's a list of some types of poems, but there are many more that i don't have listed below. feel free to write as long or short a one as you like, and as many as you like.

haiku - Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

limerick - humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba

sonnet - poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

free verse - poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

sestina - The sestina has six stanzas, each comprising six unrhymed lines, in which the words at the end of the first stanza’s lines reappear in a rolling pattern in the other stanzas. The poem then ends with a three-line stanza in which the words again appear, two on each line.

quatrain - stanza of four lines, esp. one having alternate rhymes

couplet - two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit