Best Penta Poems
Of bud bossed delicate; in its aroma much will enfold!
The turbulence of youth; also the seasoned and the old.
Tetra pedes, cross pages, sober.. in black, throughout the ages
Oh! to pass to others this understanding; and in bold.
Manifold are images, ‘thrusting now fresh into flower,
To awareness, of precious cargo; as in life’s laden bower...’
Penta metron sketch outlines, though imperfectly employed;
I reach to the stars today; as yet passes my hour!...
Translucence shows within the fading of life’s colour
As this continuing expressive awaits its turn, of another!..
My thoughts fill like pages, to blossoms in bloom
A soft falling, as petals; to your earth, my sister & brother...
To re-count of life’s possibility's... in the Rubaiyat form;
Melding its grandeur; to the bland magnitude of today’s norm!
Opening in its intricacy, the doorway to ecstasy
Playing many a cadence, relayed from its echoes borne.
Ever may its blossoms & completeness be flowering,
Entwining with the lines of the sages, to forever cling!
Refreshing the heart; perhaps a world? now tired and worn.
To a climax of prosody, does this weave of true praises sing.
© Joe Maverick.co.uk
I have added notes in the ‘To know more about this poem area’.
Categories:
penta, beauty, dedication, urdu,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Today I’d like to talk to you about how meter plays a part in
how we write a poem and sometimes in how we speak
The above lines, which are not at all poetic, are written in a specific
rhythm, or meter. Go back and read them again. You’ll pick up on
the rhythm: da DUM, da DUM, da DUM, etc. (unaccented syllable,
accented syllable, etc.)
The meter most commonly employed in poetry is iambic pentameter:
An iamb consists of an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable.
“Penta” means five. Therefore, five iambs create the meter called
iambic pentameter. Now, we’ll look at the top two lines again, this
time dividing the words into three lines: 1. Today I’d like to talk to you
about 2. how meter plays a part in how we write 3. a poem and some-
times in how we speak. This plain, literal language is written in the
rhythm used in many poems—iambic pentameter.
Literary examples, followed by everyday language, all in iambic pentameter:
“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall.” (Robert Browning)
My rubber ball went bouncing down the hall! (Yours truly)
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“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (THE Bard)
Let’s stop and buy some gum along the way. (Yours truly)
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Ask me for trochees, dactyls, anapests,
and spondees. All will take me quite a while.
Request tetrameter and trimeter.
Will do! But none of these will make me smile
like writing five neat iambs in each line.
I most enjoy this well-established style.
August 1, 2018
Contest Title: Reads Like Music--Haibun-Look poetry contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Categories:
penta, language, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
short-long
iamb song,or
long-short trochaic,taut,
spondaic long,with syllables
slow-slow-
mono
di,tri,tetra
penta,hexa,hepta
octa,which choice numbers for my
metre?
dactyl
and anapestic
with syllables three-
this poetry's a stress to far..
for me !
Categories:
penta, funny, on writing and
Form:
Cinquain
Garlands draped and strung.
White creeper blossoms
reminiscent of snow
penta-hedron, vase shaped,
single bells. Five sepal-ed,
finial, fillistered,
flower bowls.
Such delicate geometry
predestined from a seed
Destiny, fate and duty
will always mock one another.
Power struggles between courage
and cowardice, rest in the lap of higher powers.
Increments, irrelevant to atoms.
All that will unfold
is manifest in flowers.
Suzanne Delaney
Categories:
penta, beauty, courage, destiny, future,
Form:
Free verse
rhythmic structure of a verse
study of metre prosody
patterns of syllables of types
stressed syllables at regular interval
qualitative
long short short dactyl
long long spondee in dead classics
alexandrine twelve syllables in french
five characters in chinese all rules then
people had lot of time to spare
sequence of feet is a metre too
stressed and unstressed like people
five iambic feet are iambic pentameter
paradise lost and sonnets
trochee is stressed unstressed reverse of iamb then
spondee anapest dactyl amphibrach pyrrhic
metric cousins
iamb in two anapest in three common modern english
unrhymed iambic penta is blank verse
bill and milton liked it rhymed pair of lines in
iambic is heroic couplet now for humor
Categories:
penta, education,
Form:
Traditional poetry is written in METER, wherein the words in
any given line are read/heard in syllable groups called 'feet'.
An IAMB is a foot containing one un-emphasized syllable,
followed by a second emphasized (or 'stressed') syllable.
PENTA is the Greek prefix for five. The phrase IAMBIC PENTAMETER
refers to a poetic format in which each line contains five iambic pairs (individually, ten alternating UN-STRESSED and STRESSED syllables).
The result is a distinct but pleasant pattern that might be compared
to the sound of someone (or someTHING!) walking with a slightly
uneven gait: ... step-STEP... step-STEP... step-STEP...
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An 'iamb' is a pair of syllables
that sound like zombies coming down the street;
First, one soft step and next, a step that PULLS.
(You'll know when one's around just by it's feet)
'Pentameter' is bound to stop them then -
It's found to top their footsteps off at ten!
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Categories:
penta, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Please give us a topic, at least just a clue
I have no direction, don't know what to do
Do I scribe what I know, or write from the heart?
Or do I quote Shakespeare and try to sound smart?
A ballad, a sonnet, a three line haiku?
Or try to be clever, and try a senryu
Perhaps using penta, and maybe i-ambic?
Dactylic or pyrric, it's sending me manic
So next time a subject, please tell us ahead
And I'll write something different to be a blockhead
Categories:
penta, funny, humor, humorous, poems,
Form:
Verse
~~~
Summer
Hot sultry
Scorching burning de-hydrating
Breeze rustles the leaves
Sunny
Rain
Fresh
Drizzling Refreshing invigorating
Freshness in the leaves
Monsoon
Autumn
Bereft dull
Crumpling fading descending
Break off, the leaves
Fall
Winter
Harsh cold
Snowing chilling
Blizzard burying leaves
Frost
Spring
Colourful beautiful
Blooming blossoming flowering
Green are all the leaves
Vernal
~~~
Categories:
penta, nature
Form:
Cinquain
what i once left through iambic static phase
i wrote no more than what a shadow breaks
to fly and stab by spear your inner mate
an walk a mile a two a dire an not be late
my foot by foot i reached thou root
aloud i sang the poets penta foot
an hurried to write thou tasting fruit
to cuddle and read a probable suit
I found my love the poets end above
an hug'd in dawn to never leave apart
tho kissed the lips of my beloved heart
tears fell down an cried for heaven's art
an hug'd an hug'd to never loose a chart
a guide to many simple yet tough card
I then smiled for a new beginning start
an hug'd an hug'd forever being smart
10/14/2016
Categories:
penta, i love you,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
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 song
any such line..is fine
mono,di,tri..1,2,3
tetra,penta,hexa..4,5,6
hepta,octa..7,8
but..
if this topic still makes you yawn
just keep on with open form!
Categories:
penta, on writing and words
Form:
Verse
The panoply of midnights half moon smile,
emblazed beneath her part drawn shutters,
captured my glances and pseudo beguile
so sweet nothings were just mumbled stutters,
and to the rhythm of her soft inhale
this heart I stitched to sleeve, shed comforts veil,
for although the breezes laid down their song
and played hypnotically upon my mind,
they could not break sensualities throng
as your beauty and thoughts became entwined.
So never more will my steps leave distance
between commitments shallow insistence.
*** This is a Sixtain - The rhyme scheme being ababcc, but not in iambic penta-meter. Each
line should have the same syllable count (in this case 8) to soften the rhythm.
Categories:
penta, love
Form:
All my poems writ by only the greatest of pains,
Every verse born out of the memory that remains.
I sat in silence to study its golden delight;
Only for this Dreamer to awaken his Devil tonight…
Just like Jesus without His wine-
Or a poet without his rhyme.
Mankind bastards tainted my soul;
Raped my words and played me whole!
Safely away from my world- in a midnightmare,
White rose withering- my corpse the Devil’s lair.
Witnessing another black rose born,
Silently… On a forlorn winters morn…
“Aw dumb boy, romantic only on paper.
Your virginity lost in a single verse.
Death has woven Her wedding dress
at the Genesis of thy birth… “
Penta stanza’s without Heaven’s grace,
Devil kin and Oblivion without a face.
Put a stake right through my Heart…
Drag me out to the sunshines dart…
Categories:
penta, dark, death, depression, emo,
Form:
Rhyme
Santa In Disguise
Especially for Penta Tonix
What if I were wrong when I did decide
Had to find a place for myself to hide
Because buy people Had been denied
And in none of them could I confide.
Love poems that are with a happy ending
So to you this poem I am sending
To settle you down as well as simmer
Even when sad and lights grow dimmer.
Glimmer of hope from God will need
Food from His Son know He will feed
And am so anxious and can hardly wait
When God and I will start to communicate.
Great Christmas is almost here again
And Santa I must be sure to let in
Here is a word for you who are wise
God is really Santa who is in disguise.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Categories:
penta, encouraging,
Form:
Couplet
(G Penta minor for the first lines in a ballad pulse 72 quarter, )
My wolves are my strength, and I am their strength
We are a pack, and we are family
Messing with them is messing with me
Messing with me is messing with them
Different species are in our ranks. We are no longer exclusively one species.
(F Blues/D major – pulse 90 then 120 quarter)
We gather ourselves towards the kill and strike
Come and try to fight us and you’ll find out the strength of our bite
Here us howl
Oh, little lamb how the flesh feeds us and comes out in a pile of excrement
Of course, you were a pile of excrement when you opened your mouth to bleh with the others of your false flock
You lied to the others about being the strength of a pack when you were a mere charcutier board
(Repeat backwards)
Of course, you were a pile of waste when you opened your jaws to speak as you were following the flock into the slaughterhouse
Oh! Little Lamb how your flesh was to become the food for those that have demonized us, while giving you a false hope to be redeemed, when in truth they were stealing your spirit and soul.
Your body was the last thing to be given away.
They wanted it until you took it back.
You were thrown to us to become the flesh we need to survive. Well, little lamb you were not a true lamb.
(Eb minor 100 quarter)
You were not a black sheep.
You were a small wolf being feed lies by a den of thieves that gave you that name.
When we asked what your name was you stated that you were called a Lamb.
They have betrayed you and threw you to us.
They thought they knew the wolves and gave us little credit.
We have existed before they came about.
We were the ones that guarded them when they were weak
We only eat the ones that hurt the population dynamics
Little Lamb, do you see the one next to me?
It is a lamb that travels with me as my mate.
A lamb that travels with the wolves will never be alone or need to show fear from us or from anyone; because the strength of one is the strength of all, and the strength of all is the strength of one.
Come join us for the kill and the fight to survive!
Categories:
penta, uplifting,
Form:
Ballad
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 make up my song
any such line..is fine
mono,di,tri..1,2,3
tetra,penta,hexa..4,5,6
hepta,octa..7,8
but..
if this topic still makes you yawn
just keep on with open form!
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2012
Categories:
penta, poetry, word play,
Form:
Didactic