Best Stanzaic Poems

Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan


(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary...

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Inspired by the form Suzette shared.

Clothes are washed in the machine
Left behind a stain

My mental load is rinsed through
Does not remove pain

Description of form by...

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~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...

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~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...

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~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...

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~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...

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(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...

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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...

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~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...

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(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...

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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...

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~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...

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FANTASY LAND
 A
VIOLTTE POEM
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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...

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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:...

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(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...

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