Best Stanzaic Poems
They called him a child of the sky,
a storm-born spark, a rising sun
His steps were light, his hands were quick,
he climbed before he learned to run
The world below had sung his name,
its voices laced with awe and might
You’ll reach the peak they whispered low,
where all the stars align in light
He climbed through fire, through fractured bone,
through sleepless nights that burned like day
And at the top, at last, he swore
there’d be no farther left to stray
But summits blur, and clouds deceive,
each height unfolds another gate
Above him, figures loomed like wraiths,
their flesh decayed, yet climbed for weight.
And so he clings, too proud to fall,
too lost to chase another flight.
He wonders if the climb was worth
a life spent fearing a lesser height.
Categories:
stanzaic, angst, fear, identity, loneliness,
Form:
Quatrain
~With The Lord ~
( Atrina )
Make all your dreams for you just shine
Follow his guidance, you'll be fine
His guidance follow, you'll be fine
Make all your dreams for you just shine
Make all your dreams come true and glow
Enjoy life to fullest and grow
Life enjoy to fullest and grow
Make all your dreams come true and glow
Thrive and keep thoughts positive, pure
There's salvation with the Lord sure
With the Lord there's salvation sure
Thrive and keep thoughts positive, pure
Make all your dreams for you just shine
Follow His guidance, you'll be fine
Make all your dreams come true and glow
Enjoy life to fullest and grow
Thrive and keep thoughts positive, pure
There's salvation with the Lord sure.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2017
May.24.2017
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)
- Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer
Romans 12: 12 ( NIV )
-The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Exodus 14: 13 ( NIV )
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
~Author's Notes:
The " Atrina " is a poetry form or style that was created by Keith Metcalf Drew, and is a stanzaic poem of 18 lines, consisting of 3 quatrains and a sestet.
With all lines counting 8 syllables. Rhymed: AaaA BbbB CccC AaBbCc
The capital letters indicate refrain lines.
(AaaABbbBCccCAaBbCc)
The first and last lines in each verse are exactly the same.
The third line in each verse is of same words to the second line
The fourth verse the sestet consists of the first two lines from each of the three previous verses.
~ Thought for the day :
- - Salvation can't be found in anyone or anything else. There's no other.
Only Jesus. Only through Jesus alone.
Categories:
stanzaic, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form:
Free verse
~Writers~
(Catena Rondo)
Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have more in common than it seem
Writers love to write great stories through
Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than their writing
Their love for words make heart sing
Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than writing
They want to work in harmony all the time
Writers deserve recognition and that they do
United they share more than writing
They want to work in harmony all the time
Writers love to write a great story through
Some can make us happy and some blue
They want to work in harmony all the time
Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have in common more than it seem
Writers love to write a great story through.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
December.29.2016
~Author's Notes:
The "Catena Rondo" is a stanzaic form created by 20th century Canadian educator, author and poet, Robin Skelton.
Categories:
stanzaic, beautiful, books, love, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Pretty little princess
in bows and pink sundress
gifts and presents wondrous
year old today
Ribbons, sashes, ruffles
on floor crawls and shuffles
loud laughter and snuffles
childlike display
Mom and dad are so-so
lives changed a year ago
turned their whole world wacko
baby array
Parents hug each other
promise are still lovers
with a year now over
need time away
Grandparents blow kisses
friends and others wishes
party favor glitches
happy birthday
April 14, 2018
*Violette Poem Contest
By Mick Talbot
Second Place
*Violette is stanzaic, rhymed, unlimited quatrains, (in this contest minium 5), in the aaaB cccB and so on, feminine rhyming scheme. B is a linking rhyme from stanza to stanza.
Syllables, 6,6,6,4, per line.
Categories:
stanzaic, age, birthday, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Quatrain
~Glows Like Golden Grain ~
( Bragi )
Beautiful first spring day
Bountiful sun but then may rain
Enticing spring is here again at last
Each ray of sun illuminates so fast
Bright sunshine glows like golden grain
Glad spring shines bright this day.
Butterfly dance here and there fast
Most beautiful springs here again
The airs so mild today
The sky is blue and clouds hide and play
So lovely the sun rays sustain
And to all its beams of warm light it cast.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2017
June.01.2017
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
~Author's Notes:
The 'Bragi' is said to be suited for scenic beauty and “the elfin”. Created by Thelma Allinder, it became popular through a 1950’s publication,Scimitar and Song.
The Bragi is stanzaic, written in 2 sixains. (12 lines)
syllabic,6/8/10/10/8/6/10/8/6/6/8/10 syllables per line.
Rhymed, rhyme scheme abccba cbaabc. (abccbacbaabc)
Categories:
stanzaic, beautiful, butterfly, love, spring,
Form:
Free verse
(Sonnetina Rispetto)
In my mind you're here day and night
For some time you brought in sunlight
Now each day I just think of you
Non-stop my heart for you will cry
No matter what I do and try
Even when your love makes me blue
In my mind you're here day and night
For some time you brought in sunlight.
Without you now empty's my heart
It's all broken, just torn apart
Now each day I just think of you
Even when your love makes me blue
In my mind you're here day and night
For some time you brought in sunlight.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
August,07,2014
Author's notes:
The "Sonnetina Rispetto" is a new poetry form
created by Dorian Petersen Potter
on September 8,2009.
This form has 14 lines with 8 syllables each.
It can be written in 3 quatrain stanzas and a couplet or
with an Octave(8) and a Sestet(6) lines.
The rhyme scheme is as follows: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
The capitals A1,A2,B1 and B2...stands for the refrain lines in the poem.
Specifications restated:
Stanzaic: Either 4 quatrains and a couplet or a sestet and an octave.
Isosyllabic: Eight syllable per line
Repetitive: requires two refrain lines, each repeated twice.
Rhyme pattern: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
Categories:
stanzaic, heartbroken, lost love, moving
Form:
Rhyme
~He Knows ~
(The Catena Rondo)
God knows all our present past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
He wants us saved and love in heart to find
God knows all our present past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
God knows what's in store for you and me
He knows men' hearts and wants us free
He created us with a great plan in mind
God knows what's in store for you and me
He knows what's in our minds and heart
He loves us all right from the very start
God knows what's in store for you and me
He knows what's in our minds and heart
God knows all our present past and future
This is a fact according to the Good Book for sure
He knows what's in our minds and heart
God knows all our present past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
He wants us saved and love in heart to find
God knows all our present past and future.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
September.12.2016
-So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV)
~Author's Notes:
The " Catena Rondo " is a stanzaic form or style created by 20th century Canadian educator, author and poet, Robin Skelton.
Categories:
stanzaic, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form:
Free verse
Nightmare, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Cauchemar
(Translation of Paul Verlaine’s quintilla : « Cauchemar ». As usual, I have tried to stick to the original’s stanzaic format and rhyme scheme. T. Wignesan)
In my unfurling dream I saw it happen
- The way the hurricane lashes the strand –
A two-edged sword whirling in one hand
An hourglass in the other
This knight rider
Come coursing through Germany
Down through towns and the open country
And from the river up mountain free,
And from forests to valley lone
This stallion
Ebony black and red as flame
Sans bridle, nor bit, nor rein.
Ne’er a hup ! nor crop, constrain
In the midst of deafening railing
Unfailing ! Unfailing !
Long plume adorning a huge felt hat
Kept in shade his eye which up it lit
And then it dimmed. Such as in the mist
Explodes and dies this blue flash clear
The weapon fire
As when the white-tailed eagle’s wing
As might by a sudden storm sting
The air streaked with snowing,
His fur coat out-raised distend
Beat back the wind,
And disclosed with an air : glory be
A torso sombre and of ivory,
While in the black night free
Through strident neighing : dazzling beneath
Thirty-two teeth.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Categories:
stanzaic, dream,
Form:
Quintilla
~He Knows~
(Catena Rondo)
God knows our present past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
He wants us saved and love in heart to find
God knows all our present past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
God knows what's in store for you and me
He knows men' hearts and wants us free
He created us with a great plan in mind
God knows what's in store for you and me
And knows what's in our minds and hearts
He loves us all right from the very start
God knows what's in store for you and me
He knows everything out there for anyone to know
God knows our present past and future
This is a fact according to the Bible for sure
He knows everything out there for anyone to know
God knows all our present past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
He wants us saved and love in heart to find
God knows all our present past and future.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
November.01.2016
-So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NIV )
~Authors Notes:
" The Catena Rondo" is a stanzaic form created by 20th century Canadian educator, author and poet, Robin Skelton.
Categories:
stanzaic, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form:
Free verse
(Sonnetina Rispetto)
Day by day with God make my way
And to him I can always pray
Doesn't matter wherever I go
Life can be very hard at times
But with God I can hear sweet chimes
With his love my heart always glow
Day by day with God make my way
And to him I can always pray.
Here on earth till see promised land
Life rests in the palm of his hand
Doesn't matter wherever I go
With his love my heart always glow
Day by day with God make my way
And to him I can always pray.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
09.17.2014
Authors notes :
Sonnetina Rispetto
The "Sonnetina Rispetto" is a new poetry form
created by Dorian Petersen Potter
on September 8,2009.
This form has 14 lines with 8 syllables each.
It can be written in 3 quatrain stanzas and a couplet or
with an Octave(8) and a Sestet(6) lines.
The rhyme scheme is as follows: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
The capitals A1,A2,B1 and B2...stands for the refrain lines in the poem.
Specifications restated:
Stanzaic: Either 4 quatrains and a couplet or a sestet and an octaveI
Isosyllabic: Eight syllable per line
Repetitive: requires two refrain lines, each repeated twice.
Rhyme pattern: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
Categories:
stanzaic, christian, faith, hope, inspiration,
Form:
Rispetto
~Writers~
(Catena Rondo)
Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have more in common than it seem
Writers love to write great stories through
Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than their writing
Their love for words make heart sing
Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than writing
They want to work in harmony all the time
Writers deserve recognition and that they do
United they share more than writing
They want to work in harmony all the time
Writers love to write a great story through
Some can make us happy and some blue
They want to work in harmony all the time
Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have in common more than it seem
Writers love to write a great story through.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
September.12.2016
~Author's Notes:
The "Catena Rondo" is a stanzaic form created by 20th century Canadian educator, author and poet, Robin Skelton.
Categories:
stanzaic, beautiful, books, love, writing,
Form:
Free verse
~Writers~
(Catena Rondo)
Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have more in common than it seems
Writers love to write great stories through
Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than their writing
Their love for words make heart sing
Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than writing
They want to work in harmony all time too
Writers deserve recognition and that they do
United they share more than writing
They want to work in harmony all time too
Writers love to write a great story through
Some can make us happy and some blue
They want to work in harmony all time too
Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have in common more than it seems
Writers love to write a great story through.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
July.12.2016
~Author's Notes:
The " Catena Rondo " is a stanzaic form created by 20th century Canadian educator, author and poet, Robin Skelton.
Categories:
stanzaic, beautiful, books, love, writing,
Form:
Free verse
FANTASY LAND
A
VIOLTTE POEM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
a land of few hippies',
where live elves' and pixies;
matriarchal fairies,
Irish drummers
where happy and laughter
and joy ever after
fun end to a chapter,
love their summers!
humans come to visit,
all so much fun isn'it
left leaving some credit
we thought runners
you people have many,
care we not of any,
our lives' so friendly,
your could, chummers
our land of plenty
where guys act so genty
adult? yes, so scenty
ladies stunners
~~~~~
Violette
By Lawrence Eberhart | April 7, 2014 | fantasy
• The Violette is a stanzaic form with a rhyme scheme similar to the Zéjel without the mundanza, introduced by Viola Gardner. Line 4 carries a linking rhyme from stanza to stanza.
The Violette is:
• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
• syllabic, 6/6/6/4 syllables per line.
• rhymed, feminine rhyme used aaab cccb dddb etc b is a linking rhyme from stanza to stanza.
Pasted from http://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/violette/ via http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1882#baccresiez
My Thanks to Judi Van Gorder via Lawrence Eberhart for the wonderful resource at PMO, what Lawrence has done at http://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/
Mick Talbot
Categories:
stanzaic, fairy, fantasy,
Form:
ARTE MAYOR*: Neither Cricket nor Football
Is this the way to prop A-first
Sock not oval ball overhead
Slam not round ball with drumstick dead
Cut not corporate tax: the worst
Hundred millions sweat till tv burst
Swamp Super Bowl cheer-leaders' tights
The day England scorned Wales' rights*
Would arméd football rugby durst
Catch not ball in leather-gloved hand
Watch how slip-fields pluck balls from air
Out-fields brave boundaries debonair
That's what cricket's in any land
Trumped-up charges make no A-men grand
Nor soft base balls stop eyes grow sore
A-1 Nation must make World soar
Hail Rugby! King Twickenham brand!
Throw missile back You Quarter-Back
Take no step beyond the Red line
Referee draws to keep the front-line
Push no further than ball in pack
The Golden Rule's not to kick back
Unless you're in scrum cheek to jowl
And lick the foe if he must growl
Block those horns in grid-lock Am-track!
Curve ball's By Gad no in-swinger
Reach first base sans one lone strike
Home runs no match sixes through dike
Stop runs coming through huge bouncer
Best way to take the World over
Scrap apéd games from lean memory
Learn to play ball gentlemanly
You'll need no Vinson carrier!
*Arte Mayor (Sp. Major Art) stanzaic form, the art of Archiprest de Hita (12th-13th c.): eight syllabic lines in eight-line stanzas, rhyming abba acca.
*England beat Wales in epic match at Cardiff to win Six-Nations' Rugby 2017 Trophy; the same day the Super Bowl was watched by 125 millions on TV. If the same audience could have seen the match at Cardiff, I'd wager that would have been the very last Super Bowl event in history.
© T. Wignesan - Paris, 2017
Categories:
stanzaic, baseball, england, football, games,
Form:
Political Verse
(Sonnetina Rispetto)
In my mind you're here day and night
For some time you brought in sunlight
Now each day I just think of you
Non-stop my heart for you will cry
No matter what I do and try
Even when your love makes me blue
In my mind you're here day and night
For some time you brought in sunlight.
Without you now empty's my heart
It's all broken, just torn apart
Now each day I just think of you
Even when your love makes me blue
In my mind you're here day and night
For some time you brought in sunlight.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
09.17.2014
Author's notes:
The "Sonnetina Rispetto" is a new poetry form
created by Dorian Petersen Potter
on September 8,2009.
This form has 14 lines with 8 syllables each.
It can be written in 3 quatrain stanzas and a couplet or
with an Octave(8) and a Sestet(6) lines.
The rhyme scheme is as follows: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
The capitals A1,A2,B1 and B2...stands for the refrain lines in the poem.
Specifications restated:
Stanzaic: Either 4 quatrains and a couplet or a sestet and an octave.
Isosyllabic: Eight syllable per line
Repetitive: requires two refrain lines, each repeated twice.
Rhyme pattern: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
Categories:
stanzaic, betrayal, break up, grief,
Form:
Rispetto