Iamb Poems - Poems about Iamb

...It seems The poetic forms Outnumber the norms Of rhythm, pace and meter As if meeting an old acquaintance But didn’t want to meet her I prefer the Iamb With fingers counting ten Thus, with ......Read the rest...

...Today I feel iambic! I would say of all the meters, I like it the best. An iamb starts with some soft sound to say then ev'ry second syllable is stressed. Trochees likewise, alternate their str......Read the rest...

...PROFESSOR POETS These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emo......Read the rest...

..."Spotlit center stage, today's modern physicist in the fashionable Armani wardrobe incoherently presents his latest bestseller on 'bent space' to a packed auditorium of wildly adoring moro......Read the rest...

..."The opposite worldviews of Reality and romance attract not -- the base of the former being Facts." -- epistemology, the scientific theory of Knowledge, as opposed to "just a theory" * ......Read the rest...

...The Demonic Prince Demons The legion of demons They dwell In the cold place of hell Tempt thee The depth of hell's empty They're here For it's time to spread fear Black crows Come out of ......Read the rest...

...As to poems with cadent feet, in tapping to an old-style pace, the pulsing verses gladly meet, and forward line by line advance, with elegance and charming grace, through steps of iamb......Read the rest...

...A trochee, Dum-da, is used by a poet tho' very few know it; a tro-chee is self-referential. An iamb, da-Dum, to confuse or amuse or generally abus......Read the rest...

...Epigrams VI These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina by Michael R. Burch When you’ve given so much that I......Read the rest...

...Light verse and nonsense verse Mini-Ode to Stamina by Michael R. Burch When you’ve given so much that I can’t bear your touch, then from a safe distance let me admire your persistence. ......Read the rest...

...In the Beginning was the Word Just a sound really A somber echo into the abyss that kickstarted the whole universe (was the noise beautiful? was it ugly? who's to say for sure... ......Read the rest...

...Here this? rise(iamb,anapest) meters TWO TWO meters fall(trochee,dactyl) in my poem they do sit each the others opposite; a foot is two syllables long, lines of them......Read the rest...

...Doggerel I or Nonsense Verse A$$tronomical by Michael R. Burch Einstein, the frizzy-haired, proved E equals MC squared. Thus, all mass decreases as activity ceases? Not my mass, my a$$ dec......Read the rest...

...rise(iamb,anapest) meters TWO TWO meters fall(trochee,dactyl) in my poem they do sit each the others opposite; a foot is two syllables long, lines of them make up my so......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poems (I) What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~underwater~~~ watching the shoreline blur sees through his breath’s weightless ......Read the rest...