Showing posts with label modern poetry forms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modern poetry forms. Show all posts

Friday, October 6, 2023

Scary Lights

 

1950 Chevrolet
This kind of headlight: a-ok.

1950 Mercury Monterey Coupe
This kind of headlight:
Scary because reasons.

as a child
for reasons I can't explain
I found headlights with hoods over them benevolent,
while headlights without hoods were terrifying;
not in the same way as large insects or death
but still sinister.

~for reasons unexplainable~

I refuse to allow the adult I am now
to become snarky and sanctimonious
about childhood fears
which may seem ridiculous in retrospect.
the anxious girl I was had her reasons for being afraid
of the scary lights.

notes
Prompt provided by Experience Writing.

Poem form: Puente

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/puente.html

The form has three stanzas with the first and third having an equal number of lines and the middle stanza having only one line which acts as a bridge (puente) between the first and third stanza. The first and third stanzas convey a related but different element or feeling, as though they were two adjacent territories. The number of lines in the first and third stanza is the writer’s choice as is the choice of whether to write it in free verse or rhyme.

The center line is delineated by a tilde (~) and has ‘double duty’. It functions as the ending for the last line of the first stanza AND as the beginning for the first line of the third stanza. It shares ownership with these two lines and consequently bridges the first and third stanzas.

In the puente you have overlapping couplets. I refer to these couplets as the processional couplet and the recessional couplet taken from the same words used in the wedding ceremony.

I hadn't previously heard of the Puente, but here we are.

I've been a nervous wreck for most of my life and I still don't know why. I'm no longer unsettled by cars with round headlights, though. The ones with the blinding blue headlights are much worse. Fortunately, I don't see them very often anymore as I avoid driving at night.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

Image by Kevin Sanderson from Pixabay

That owl has the classic Ornery expression giving the cauldron the side-eye.
"Aren't you done yet?"



Tuesday, November 8, 2022

November PAD Challenge 2022: Day 8: A Triquint Introduction

 

Image by 0fjd125gk87 from Pixabay

please allow me to introduce me

where many would reduce me

some would seduce me

hang loosely

me


I've always tried to live life truly

sometimes I seem unruly

alas, poor fool, me

can't school me

see


so many have tried to retool me

I won't play along coolly

you will not rule me

I'll pull me

free

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

Image by Syaibatul Hamdi from Pixabay

notes and prompts used

The only way to be free is to break away from the expectations placed on you by others. Do not automatically accept anyone else's rules as your own, even if they tell you they know better than you what you should do.


Today's prompt asks participants to write a form or anti-form poem. More about this poem's form in a moment.


Today we have a twofer of Quickly prompts as I play catch-up on the days I missed.

Write an introduction. I introduced myself and my attitude.

It may be subtle, but this poem praises me and my bad attitude.


This poem is a Triquint.

Triquint is a poem form created by Sylvia A. Feeley, which consists of 3 verses, 5 lines each. Lines 3 and 4 of verse 1 (Refrain) repeat in verses 2 and 3. The syllable count for each stanza is 9, 7, 5, 3, 1 and has an aaAAb rhyme scheme.


Don't miss out on this Deep House mix to accompany your writing.

Here's the link in case you can't see the player.

Monday, November 2, 2020

An Unexpected Visitor

 

Free use image by Waldkunst on Pixabay

on a dismal night while making a casserole
one eldritch horror caused extramundane disturbance
on its arrival bursting from the earth like a mole
the clatter of bricks brought me great perturbance

never have I before heard such a deafening whistle
not like the hooning sound from its numerous orifices
nothing I could find would make an effective missile
not enough to damage its hardened protuberances 

even if I had a tome of arcane magic
eldritch horrors must be known to be dismissed
everything pointed to my ending being tragic
ensuing thoughts of doom made me turn agonist

very many possibilities did cross my mind
visions of my last moments grim and gory
visceral thoughts of murder most unkind
viciously the creature leaned in, ate the casserole, end of story

~cie~

Not the best poem ever written, but I had fun.



PAD Challenge Prompt:
Write an unexpected poem.

Poetry Style:
Trolaan, created by Valerie Peterson Brown, is a poem consisting of 4 quatrains. Each quatrain begins with the same letter. The rhyme scheme is abab.

Starting with the second stanza you use the second letter of the first line of the first stanza to write the second each line beginning with that letter.

On the third stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the second stanza and write the third each line beginning with that letter.

On the fourth stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the third stanza and write the fourth each line beginning with that letter.

Agonist- a person who is torn my inner conflict
Casserole
Dismal
Eldritch- spooky, eerie, weird
Whistle
Numerous
Extramundane- beyond our world or material universe
Find
Harden
Lean
Clatter
Brick

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

One-Bun: Slow Overkill


slow overkill
The disease struck as destructively as a massive payload nuclear device, devastating body and mind
ironically working insidiously as slow poisoning

Love,
Cie

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