Best Non Rhyming Poems
Test me
I am willing
To fail
Failure
Is not fatal
At all
All things
Are born to be
Broken
Break free
From the outer
Hard shell
Shells can
Hide the beauty
Within
With love
Flowing freely
We glow
Glowing
For all the world
To see
Seeing
All the beauty
They smile
Smiling
Brings them pleasure
As well
Welling
Up from their soul
A gift
Gifted
To all who are
Shattered
I decided to call this a "Mussetle Train" try one out it is fun.
2 4 2 non rhyming take a word from the end of each stanza(car)
and use a derivative of it to form the premise of the next car in the train.
I am playing with a non rhyming vesion of the Musette form.
The last word of each stanza forms the premise of the next.
She expected very little from the guy
A lesson she had learned long ago
Guys are after just one thing
It always started
With just one
Kiss
Then look out
For wandering hands
He would unbutton her top
Then next he would remove her brasier
She was so excited...she could hardly wait !
Non Rhyming version of Andrea's new form.
Happy birthday to you Jenny
Hope your big day brings you plenty
Keep a bright smile all the way
Your mom sings your praises today
Soon you will be driving to school
Don’t forget to follow the rules
Enjoy your day with a buffet
Your mom sings your praises today
Happy birthday to you Jenny
Don’t forget to save your pennies
Wish on a star on your great day
Your mom sings your praises today
Happy birthday to you Jenny
Your mom sings your praises today
© Joseph, 8/20/2007
© All Rights Reserved
This is for the the daughter of our own poetess, Kathy.
The Kyrielle Sonnet is a French form from the Middle Ages. It has 14 lines (three
rhyming quatrains and a non-rhyming couplet). It has a repeating line or phrase
as a refrain in the last line of each stanza. Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet
has eight syllables. There are times when a French poem links back to the
poem’s beginning; therefore, a common practice is to combine the first line of
the first quatrain and the refrain in each quatrain as the ending couplet for the
poem.
Goodbye
I’ll hide my tears
Won’t cry
Crying
Heart is breaking
Tears fall
Falling
In love with you
Was bliss
Blissful
Together forever
You lied
Lying
Sealing our fate
So long
Longing
For the right one
Some day
2,4,2 non rhyming form
Contest:Mussetle Train
Sponsor: Richard Lamoureux
11~30~ 2014
Title changed from heartbreak to Heartbroken for
''H'' Contest, New or Old Poems Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
Have a blessed birthday Michael J
Today I knelt for you to pray
May His guiding light shine on you
God’s grace I pray will bring you through
May you have strength on your birthday
With family this holiday
Celebrating with faith like new
God’s grace I pray will bring you through
As your son returns home today
Like a rainbow brightens the day
Continue to wear a smile too
God’s grace I pray will bring you through
Have a blessed birthday Michael J
God’s grace I pray will bring you through
© Joseph, 11/20/07
© All Rights Reserved
Hello Michael, have a blessed birthday and Thanksgiving holiday with your brave
son and family. May God bless each of you always and as a family! The Kyrielle
Sonnet is a French form from the Middle Ages. It has 14 lines (three rhyming
quatrains and a non-rhyming couplet). It has a repeating line or phrase as a
refrain in the last line of each stanza. Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet has
eight syllables. There are times when a French poem links back to the poem’s
beginning; therefore, a common practice is to combine the first line of the first
quatrain and the refrain in each quatrain as the ending couplet for the poem.
Every one of my five brothers
and I strive to create harmony.
Our lives are lived in parallel
yet at times we work alone.
Other times we play well together -
unity and coexistence is our goal.
A chord can bring us together
into a rich and soulful harmony.
We often seek concord in parallel
so no one is left alone;
expressive music is our end goal,
a desire shared by six brothers.
Django Reinhardt, who often played alone,
had mastery over all us brothers,
as do Los Romeros playing together,
creating a family of classical harmony.
Andrés Segovia with his ambitious goal,
worked with composer Rodrigo in parallel.
Great rock guitarists with their goal
of playing fantastic music in parallel:
Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison playing together;
the Eagles soaring in amazing harmony;
Clapton; Jimmy Page; the Allman Brothers;
or Hendrix playing incendiary solos alone.
Bring your friends, sisters and brothers
to a concert - don't come alone!
You'll meet people who have parallel
interests to your own. Dance together
as music plays. Our common goal
should be brotherhood and world harmony!
Each string of a guitar, alone
can make a melody. But harmony
exists only by functioning in parallel,
cooperatively. Let this be our goal:
for human beings to work together,
recognizing that we are all brothers.
My brothers and I aren't alone.
In parallel lives, our main goal
is to work together, making harmony.
[Sestina]
// A sestina is a non-rhyming poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. The last word of each line in stanza 1 is repeated in all of the following stanzas. The envoy contains all six repeating words. To emphasize the theme of "Six Relatives", I have also made each line exactly 6 words. Additionally, I began stanzas 1-6 with the letters of the six guitar strings: E, A, D, G, B, E. One final note: the "ambitious goal" of Andrés Segovia and Joaquín Rodrigo was to make the guitar a respected instrument in the classical repertoire. They succeeded!//
Written 16 Nov 2020
Coffee! Coffee In the Yawning.
Pour straight from the pot.
In the dawning - deep fog of brain.
Lifting of the breakfast cup.
Pour straight from the pot.
Open very wide, the eyes.
Lifting of the breakfast cup
along with a grape jelly donut.
Open very wide, the eyes -
the ebon clearing.
Along with a grape jelly donut,
have a great big gulp.
The ebon clearing
in the dawning - deep fog of brain.
Have a great big gulp.
Coffee! Coffee in the yawning.
8/8/2022
non-rhyming pantoum
I was stumbling around the Poetry world when I ran into this Gem
The Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Card Contest.
I thought, what an opportunity
But then I read the rules and although
I do not know who wrote them
I must say, "COME ON" Really !
Poetry Contest Guidelines:
1: Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming, although we find that non-rhyming poetry reads better.
Non-rhyming poems Read Better---Ha---what a crock ! Tell that to the 18th and 19th Century Poets
This it soooooooooo idiotic, It's like saying, We are having our Special Olympics and disabled and enabled can enter alike, although we find that Enabled entries usually win. ( This metaphor is not intended to diminish the abilities of those of us that have disabilities, It is intended to show how ludicrous rules can be )
Blue Mountain, WHY NOT say----"Rhymer's Need Not Apply"
I went down to Blue Mountain
I thought I'll have a-go
And may win 300 bucks
You laugh, but never know
Once there, I read the page
Where I was to apply
That's where the darnedest thing
Reach-out and caught my eye
Rhymers just weren't welcome
That's what the first rule spelled
No point in even trying
'Cause "Rhyming Don't Read Well"
Instead of feeling Blue
I counted all my blessings
Then,I bought a pair glasses
And started reading lessons
Thanks Blue Mountain
I'm "Reading Well" Now !
See you next contest
by JTCurtis (A rhymer w/readability)
My prayers
I will send
To my dear twin
this prayer is for you
Father
Please bless twin
Heal her body
Touch from inside- out
You know
what she needs
give her strength
to reach out to you
Father
I pray that
you send angels
to minister now
Father
I ask that
you forgive all
wrong that has been done
Oh God
wash us now
I give you praise
This I Pray- Amen
* Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye maybe healed. The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5: 16
Poetic Twins created by Mary Ann Duhart on 10-3-2009. Subject topics relating to
twins..syllable count 2-3-4-5 representing 2-twins 3-triplet-4- quadruplets
and 5 quintriplets..rhyming for identical or non-rhyming for faternal - no limit of stanzas.
VIDEO/AUDIO on YouTube above. NOTE: On the video; double-click to enlarge, and/or, right-click for the drop-down menu and click on 'Loop' for auto-repeat, click settings and pick the highest level for quality viewing.
Morality
Moral
development,
standard adolescence,
we are externally controlled
also, trials are judged,
consequences
follows
Moral
adaptation
sensing both personal
and societal involvement
in adulthood supports
reestablish
bygone
Moral
definitives
intricate principles
rules obeyed avoids penalty
substitutes horrible
if it is met
better
Moral
law-and-order
continues through our life,
unpunished lawbreakers create
lawlessness, and mayhem
advantageous
urbane
Moral
circumference,
best helps one's interest
serving others, will further you,
naught based on loyalty
encouragement
reward
Moral
behavior's
when laws vary of rules,
light abstracts versus absolutes
o'er prejudiced thinking,
alternatives
exploit
Moral
complacency
peaceful coexistence
when facial grins excel the glares
good choices existed
self-reliance
attained
*Heptastich is a non-rhyming verse poem of 7 lines, syllables are; 2-4-6-8-6-4-2
2021 March 16
I am a watermelon
with no meter or rind.
Counting syllables
like one, two, three...
Some beats make me sweet.
Some rhythms make me salty.
Four, three, two...
Some poets prefer
a non-rhyming peach
whose lines taste better than mine.
One, two, three…
Please don’t cry.
Four, three, two…
I’m still here
and I hope you’re
doing just fine.
A real Peach
never says goodbye.
Berteena
Harmony of the Soul
13 February, 2019
It’s a great day to shake and bake
Dance, sing, and eat all of your cake
It’s time to wear your dinner gown
Happy Birthday Dear Carol Brown
Upon reaching the Big Six O
Spread and stretch on your patio
Wear your fancy dress into town
Happy Birthday Dear Carol Brown
As you puff out the nice candles
Hold tight onto your chair handles
Smile today and let your hair down
Happy Birthday Dear Carol Brown
It’s a great day to shake and bake
Happy Birthday Dear Carol Brown
© Joseph, 4/9/08
© All Rights Reserved
Comments: Dedicated to my poet laureate friend Carol Brown. The Kyrielle
Sonnet has 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming
couplet). It has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain in the last line of each
stanza. Each line within the sonnet has eight syllables. The French use the first
and last line of the first quatrain as the ending couplet. This reinforces the refrain
within the poem. The rhyming scheme for a Kyrielle Sonnet normally is: AabB,
ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.
Hammock's swing brings out the sun
half asleep I feel its warmth
sea breeze touches both my eyes
whispers dreams of distant lands.
+++++++++++++++++++++++
Placement:4th;(September 2012)
By-Kash Poet
Contest-Hammock of sky in Tanaga
Sponsor:Nette Onclaud
5th August,2012
TANAGA:tanaga has four lines with seven syllables each, thus, 7.7.7.7…in its traditional form, all lines are rhymed at the end, although the modern form tends to be written in free verse...
for this contest, quill me a NEW, ORIGINAL tanaga on the theme ‘ HAMMOCK/S OF SKY’ in free verse (modern form, non-rhyming)… to add a little twist to this challenge, use the sense of touch in creating your piece...
My Favorite Type of Poem
Poetry by tradition
must be lucid and rhythmic,
but just for information
syllable count is specific.
Grammar of a poetry shouts
right rules and regulation.
Symmetry in nice lay outs
demands high admiration
Prose-poetry verses must come
in serious weighty mood.
Non rhyming style is welcome,
yet rhyming ruless are too good.
My firm views will always tell
‘Compose a poem in rhyme.
Ideas will run excel
if proper rhyming is prime
So I must conclude to say,
‘ my favorite type comes as best
with lines rhyming in array,
yet each format I respect.
Syllable count : 7 syllable each line
10/29/15
New or Old Poem 3 Contest
by Eve Roper
A is for Acrostic, where the first letter of each line spells a word
B is for Burlesque, a poetic type bordering on absurd
C is for Clerihew, a short and humorous verse
D is for Didactic, meant to improve morals at first
E is for Epithalamium, written for a groom and his bride
F is for Free Verse, where the rules go and hide
G is for Ghazal, with a shared rhyme and refrain
H is for Haiku, getting it just right is a pain
I is for Iambic Pentameter, which is the poetic beat
J is for Jargon, where real and fake words do meet
K is for Kwansaba, another non-rhyming form
L is for Limerick, where many a giggle has been born
M is for Monorhyme, the same rhyme on each line
N is for Narrative, which tells a story every time
O is for Ode, a lengthy, lyrical poem
P is for Pastoral, describing the rural life I call home
Q is for Quatrain, rhyming verses with lines that count four
R is for Romanticism, think of the Romeo and Juliet score
S is for Sonnet, fourteen lines with a conventional scheme
T is for Tanka, first appearing on the Japanese scene
U is for Unique, which every written poem wants to be
V is for Villanelle, repeating lines one and three
W is for Worthwhile, which I think most poems are
X is for X-cellent, those poems written by stars
Y is for Youngsters, who should start writing their own
Z is for Zebra, my own black and white poem
So pick up your pen and try your hand at these styles
Included in poems makes the written word smile