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
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This is a difficult topic for me. I did not do well with poems at school! I think, in fact, that I did not do them.
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