Write Iambic Pentameter Poems

If ratings give meaning, symbolled with stars,
Then always keep on your ratings radar.

I’m trying to write my best poem by far,
Please rate it between a...

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Wish I, a journal of my days, had kept
from my teen years until the present time;
I'd have a way to view and intercept
each memory by...

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** An exercise: write a sonnet in iambic pentameter.

With heavy heart, I offer my remorse,
for I'm too tired to dance this weary eve.
The echoes of...

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The moon was peeking through the naked trees
The breeze that blew that day had gone to bed
A lonely nightingale perched overhead
Harassed the silence with his...

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Regarding merit: absent, missing, void
Of all redeeming qualities, save one,
The apple of His eye, His "very good.”
Was He, in pleasant garden, much annoyed
When they His...

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My heart was pained to learn of your demise;
how could this be, no warning was in sight.
Dear poet friend, your passing fills my eyes
with tears...

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Ode to Amanda Gorman Poet


Amanda Gorman in Voyage Magazine;
Appeared so natural as well as serene;
First for a black person this and that;
Had heard her read...

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Welcome Aboard My Lord

Will welcome you aboard my Lord
Sins away will have all been stored;
Did write to You a poem and story;
All of my sins...

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Before me, was a fork upon the trail;
   go left- go right- confused, I just stood there.
      Then...

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Holding on tight
Not wanting to let go
Thinking your right 
But really you don’t know

Holding on forever
That won’t make it any better
Thinking it was clever
Starting to...

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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...

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Iambic pentameter is all about the syllables, which ones are loud, and which ones are soft.
Baboon has two sounds – ba, and boon, a soft...

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To write six lines of smiles I'll find a treat,
for my best friend, nature, in spring, a joy!
Birds sing, bring cheer, new life, alleluia!
Small bird,...

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I didn't have a chance to say goodbye,
to let you know how dear you are to me
and though my chance is gone, I still will...

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The Attic


Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust
     in this old attic of dear grandma's home.
So dark, a lighted candle is a...

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