GEORGE ELIOT
An an epigram form of George Eliot the English novelist/poet, as exampled in Chap 8 of her book Daniel Deronda.Here is her epigram style
What name doth Joy most borrow
when life is fair ?
Tomorrow !
What name does best fit sorrow
In young despair?
Tomorrow !
A talent
that outlived
passing fame-
hidden beneath
her lover's name.
Langston Hughes is best known for his insightful and powerful poetry, often addressing identity as exampled in this in this 'Mother to Son' 20 liner personification.A staccato conversational recitational piece... best spoken aloud
ORGANIC IMPRESSIONS-:-
ultimate
perceptive
longings
idealise
identity
into PIVOTAL FIGURES
stubbornly
fanciful
excesses
theatrically
sentimental
with ALLEGORIC EMPHASIS
strictly
defined
exampled
praised
inspiration
The challenges of Ray Stebbing's TETRACTYS form are
A.each line of 5 is required 'to stand on its own '
B.the poem to express a complete thought,
C.within the narrow compass of 20 syllables.
D. line i 1
line ii. (1+1) 2
line iii (2+1) 3
line iv (3+1). 4
line v (1+2+3+4). 10
total. 20
MY EXAMPLE as an EKPHRASIS*
the
image
triggering
stark sensations
drawn by the simple abstract shapes
* my wide interpretation of EKPHRASIS*extends beyond a piece of art to include the artist ,styles of art,history of art AND MUSIC& similar creativity
A. INTRO
AMERICAN CINQUAINS Adelaide's answer to the Japanese haiku
Poems
in shapely form,
displaying syllables
or stresses in a versatile
refrain.
B.DIDACTIC DISCUSSION
TITLE completely optional
FORMAT
FIRST LETTER OF LlNE CAPITALISED
line syllables/stresses
1. 2 Long days
2. 4 Of August sun
3. 6 Where nature blinks and shrinks
4. 8 The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
5. 2 Held fast
EXAMPLE OF MINE -TITLED
PASSION
Eyes closed
As lips caressed,
Mouths joined,impassioned
Tongues explore,in our love's embrace,
Time-framed
KEY to this form- note how line 1 & line 5 make a link couplet & secondly the 'turn' 'surprise' from end of line 4 to 5.
BONFIRE NIGHT
LINE
1. november the fifth- }
2. layered rolls of liquid fog } S H O W
3. envelope the bonfire- }
4. the party becomes a } T E L L
5. damp squib }
Bouts the elder christened Dieric
a painter with a unique trick
Such slender figures,truth to tell
exampled in this painting of Hell*
*https://www.wga.hu/html_m/b/bouts/dirk_e/1/5thefall.html
POETIC BIO
Alliteration,the starting place, alongside
cinquains,apace in time,crystalline
lanterne and rhyme.Inspiration drew forth
footle,broken monoku for a while short
imagist was my style.Sequenced longer
poems metamorphose within this crysallis
changing into ekphrasis.Open,and free to be,
as you see,structured prose poetry.With
cadence and pause,others hear my voice,
aural phrasis now this poet’s choice.
as exampled below
What intimacy is its cause,perhaps
an immaculate conception of words;
too swift to comprehend,see or
recognise.The moment is there
and then is not.Gone with the wind
the seed of idea remains, to
germinate and gestate,fanned by a
mental fragrance of elation.Slowly
self-transcending a word into a phrase,
a sentence to a strophe;a rhyme
rides a waterfall of cadence,
into a chasm of verse. Terse or
long, the sonnet becomes a little song,
struggles to arrive.Thrust forth upon
my page;a bastard-born of pain
A Tiny Flag
There rests a tiny flag in my garage,
That will fly from my yard on the 4th of July.
As much as it will stand for Old Glory then,
It will be remembered more for its giver.
The tall sweet man with gentle ways,
Who with three brothers fought for his country,
Who exampled Freedom by living Freedom’s life,
The good son, brother, father and husband.
In his fantasies, he might have wandered somewhere,
But his faith, his love, made him choose to be “free.”
“Free” from the ugliness of some other men,
A man who fought for, and gave reality
To the tiny flag in my garage.
re-post inspired by Constance contest
footle-CHINESE WHISPER
low voice
no choice
Note A footle-2 lines,2 syllbles with a title-Ligh verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc with an integral title
(technically a trochaic monometer)hence I label the form as a footle best exampled by the
famous FLEAS
Adam
had'em.
SNOWBALL or PLUS 1 then 2 then 3 syllables added on successive lines and so on til its done
TABB a couplet easy and free , (after J B T)
HERBERT Christian forms in the main,George had too many,here to name
EAP styled after Poe's essay end,a list form in five, I noticed ,then penned
you may hear me recite from my 4000+ PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro..
catch my short form as exampled above @strandpoet on twitter..
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Where do I go from here Jehovah. I have tried and I have not succeed. I did what
you have adviced and failed. I have followed your exampled, and instead I was
ostracized. You have seen my affliction, and you heard my out cried. I am wobbling
in a pit of excrement, and where is my rope. I have done nothing wrong again,and I
am being slaughtered. You have seen the two side on the coin, and why sweet
Jehovah you have not save me. Why per long this saga when every story has an
ending. Why make bad people look righteous, and good people look wicked. I have
beseeched you on matters and I have groped for your advice, and I have follow
them. Then where is my victory, you are "Jehovah God of Army" ,and I have lost the
war.
too snide
both died
Note A footle-2 lines,2 syllbles with a title-Light verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc
(technically a trochaic monometer)hence I label the form as a footle best exampled by the
famous FLEAS
Adam
had'em.
low voice
no choice
Note A footle-2 lines,2 syllbles with a title-Ligh verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc
(technically a trochaic monometer)hence I label the form as a footle best exampled by the
famous FLEAS
Adam
had'em.
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